Sfar So Far: Identity, History, Fantasy, and Mimesis in Joann Sfar's Graphic Novels

by Fabrice Leroy

Sfar So Far is the first monograph in any language devoted to the graphic novels of Joann Sfar, an artist whose abundant and innovative work has profoundly marked the contemporary French comics scene. This book examines how, over the past two decades, Sfar has constructed an idiosyncratic universe with its own thematic and stylistic recurrences: a playful drafting style, contrasting with the thoughtful introduction of historical, theological,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9462700060
• ISBN13: 9789462700062
• Release Date: February 2015
• Publisher: Leuven University Press
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 1.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.8" x 9.1"