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Graphic novels and comic books
- Title
- Graphic novels and comic books / edited by Kat Kan.
- Format
- Book
- Published
- New York : The H.W. Wilson Co., 2010.
- Description
- viii, 195 p. : ill. ; 26 cm.
- Other contributors
- Kan, Katharine, ed.
- Uniform series
- Reference shelf v. 82, no. 5.
- Notes
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
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- The graphic novel silver anniversary / Andrew D. Arnold
- What is a graphic novel? / Jessica Abel
- Drawing power / Bob Thompson
- Raw beginnings ; Hot off the presses ; Picture the possibilities / Jonathan Bennett
- Notes from the underground / Walter Ryce
- Graphic novels are new horizon for top authors / George Gene Gustines
- A comic-book world / Stephen E. Tabachnick
- Graphic novels are legit lit / Micah Mertes
- Comics no longer a joke in academia / Lisa Cornwell
- From pulp to Pulitzer / Fritz Lanham
- The plot thickens / Linda Lou
- Once-avoided comics welcomed in schools / Chris Mautner
- The big battle / Peter Rowe
- Comics in the classroom / Laura Hudson
- Going graphic / James Bucky Carter
- Using comics and graphic novels in the classroom / Council Chronicle
- Best of both worlds / Sean P. Connors
- Expanding literacies through graphic novels / Gretchen Schwarz
- Graphics novels for (really) young readers / Allyson A. W. Lyga
- Graphic novels in today's libraries / John Hogan
- Reinventing the book club / Jonathan Seyfried
- Graphic novels and school libraries / Hollis Margaret Rudiger and Megan Schliesman
- A comics legend draws on 9/11 / Dan DeLuca
- Being Lynda Barry / Christopher Borrelli
- Scam artist / Robert L. Pincus
- Life drawing / Margot Harrison
- Never mind the mullahs / Vivienne Walt
- Cartoon politics / Michael Scott Leonard
- CR Sunday interview / Tom Spurgeon.
- Summary
- Comics, graphic novels, sequential art have gained unprecedented legitimacy. The articles collected in this volume provide an overview of this wildly diverse, increasingly popular, and widely accepted form of literature. --from editor's preface.
- Subject headings
- Comic books, strips, etc.--History and criticism. Graphic novels--History and criticism.
- ISBN
- 9780824211004 (pbk. : alk. paper) 0824211006 (pbk. :alk. paper)