Arresting Development: Comics at the Boundaries of Literature

by Christopher Pizzino

Book Overview

Mainstream narratives of the graphic novel's development describe the form's "coming of age," its maturation from pulp infancy to literary adulthood. In Arresting Development, Christopher Pizzino questions these established narratives, arguing that the medium's history of censorship and marginalization endures in the minds of its present-day readers and, crucially, its authors. Comics and their writers remain burdened by the stigma of literary...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1477310681
• ISBN13: 9781477310687
• Release Date: September 2016
• Publisher: University of Texas Press
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.0" x 8.9"