Pictures and Words: New Comic Art and Narrative Illustration

by Mark Sinclair and Roanne Bell

Comics, graphic novels, and single panel cartoons have long flourished as an alternative medium. In recent years these forms of narrative illustration--artwork that tells its own story rather than supporting a text--have increasingly crossed over into mainstream popular culture. Pictorial storytelling now reaches the public through animated films (Spirited Away) and films with animated sequences (Kill Bill), while graphic novels win...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0300111460
• ISBN13: 9780300111460
• Release Date: October 2005
• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Length: 144 Pages
• Weight: 1.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 9.4" x 10.8"