Unpopular Culture: Transforming the European Comic Book in the 1990s

by Bart Beaty and Athena Dixon

In the last fifteen years or so, a wide community of artists working in a variety of western European nations have overturned the dominant traditions of comic book publishing as it has existed since the end of the Second World War. These artists reject both the traditional form and content of comic books (hardcover, full-colour 'albums' of humour or adventure stories, generally geared towards children), seeking instead to instil the medium with...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0802094120
• ISBN13: 9780802094124
• Release Date: February 2007
• Publisher: University of Toronto Press
• Length: 318 Pages
• Weight: 1.12 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.3" x 9.0"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher