Reading Comics

Description:

Suddenly, comics are everywhere: a newly matured art form, filling bookshelves with brilliant, innovative work and shaping the ideas and images of the rest of contemporary culture. In *Reading Comics*, critic Douglas Wolk shows us why this is and how it came to be. Wolk illuminates the most dazzling creators of modern comics-from Alan Moore to Alison Bechdel to Dave Sim to Chris Ware-and introduces a critical theory that explains where each fits into the pantheon of art. *Reading Comics* is accessible to the hardcore fan and the curious newcomer; it is the first book for people who want to know not just what comics are worth reading, but also the ways to think and talk and argue about them.

subjects: Wahrnehmung,  Literaturtheorie,  Comic,  History and criticism,  Tecknade serier,  Comic books, strips,  nyt:paperback-graphic-books=2009-08-02,  New York Times bestseller,  Comic books, strips, etc., history and criticism,  Comic books, strips, etc--history and criticism,  Comic books, strips, etc--united states--history and criticism,  Pn6725 .w65 2007,  741.53