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Title: Comics, Manga, and Graphic Novels: A History...
Publisher: Praeger
Publication Date: 2010
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: new
About this title
This text examines comics, graphic novels, and manga with a broad, international scope that reveals their conceptual origins in antiquity.
· Includes numerous illustrations of British satirical prints, Japanese woodblock prints, and the art of prominent illustrators
· Includes a chapter on the latest developments in digital comics
Too often the popularity and subject matter of "comic books" is perceived as a purely modern American phenomenon that only arrived in the 20th century and is virtually nonexistent outside the United States. This is certainly untrue; in fact, the world's first costumed superhero—"The Golden Bat"—appeared in Japan in 1931, seven years before Superman was created.
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