University Press of Mississippi. PAPERBACK. VG. Printers error left small ink mark on margin of page 15. Binding solid, pages crisp and clean with a few bent page tips. Some light scuffs and dents. Light tip wear at corners. University Press of Mississippi ISBN 0878054065 9780878054060 [US]

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Univ.P.of Mississippi, Date: 1990. Paperback. New. 180 pages. 9.25x6.25x0.50 inches. 1990. Univ.P.of Mississippi ISBN 0878054065 9780878054060 [GB]

Paperback / softback. New. Offers a focused and perceptive analysis of a phenomenon in our popular culture - the new respectability of the comic book form - and argues that the comics medium has a productive tradition of telling true stories with grace and economy. ISBN 0878054065 9780878054060 [GB]

ISBN10: 0878054065, ISBN13: 9780878054060, [publisher: University Press Of Mississippi] Softcover nach der Bestellung gedruckt Neuware - Printed after ordering - This well focused and perceptive analysis of a phenomenon in our popular culture¿the new respectability of the comic book form¿argues that the comics medium has a productive tradition of telling true stories with grace and economy. It details vividly the outburst of underground comics in the late 1960s and ¿70s, whose cadre of artistically gifted creators were committed to writing comic books for adults, an audience they made aware that comic books can offer narratives of great power and technical sophistication.In this study Joseph Witek examines the rise of the comic book to a position of importance in modern culture and assesses its ideological and historical implications. Jack Jackson, Art Spiegelman, and Harvey Pekar are among the creators whom Witek credits for the emergence of the comic book as a serious artistic medium. As American codes of ethics, aesthetics, and semiotics have evolved, so too has the comic book as a mode for presenting the weightier matters of history. It
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