The Expanding Art of Comics: Ten Modern Masterpieces

by Thierry Groensteen

Book Overview

In The Expanding Art of Comics: Ten Modern Masterpieces, prominent scholar Thierry Groensteen offers a distinct perspective on important evolutions in comics since the 1960s through close readings of ten seminal works. He covers over half a century of comics production, sampling a single work from the sixties (Ballad of the Salt Sea by Hugo Pratt), seventies (The Airtight Garage of Jerry Cornelius by Moebius), eighties (Watchmen...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1496808029
• ISBN13: 9781496808028
• Release Date: October 2017
• Publisher: University Press of Mississippi
• Length: 252 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.2"