Arguing Comics: Literary Masters on a Popular Medium

by Kent Worcester

Book Overview

When Art Spiegelman's Maus--a two-part graphic novel about the Holocaust--won a Pulitzer Prize in 1992, comics scholarship grew increasingly popular and notable. The rise of "serious" comics has generated growing levels of interest as scholars, journalists, and public intellectuals continue to explore the history, aesthetics, and semiotics of the comics medium.

Yet those who write about the comics often assume analysis of the medium...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1578066875
• ISBN13: 9781578066872
• Release Date: January 2005
• Publisher: University Press of Mississippi
• Length: 176 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"