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1 online resource (3 volumes (xix, 1084 pages)) : illustrations. |
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| Series |
Critical survey of graphic novels |
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Critical survey of graphic novels.
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| Contents |
Volume 1. A.D. : New Orleans after the deluge -- The adventures of Luther Arkwright -- The adventures of Tintin -- Age of bronze : the story of the Trojan War -- Age of reptiles -- Airtight garage of Jerry Cornelius -- Alan's War : the memories of G.I. Alan Cope -- Alec : the years have pants -- Alice in Sunderland : an entertainment -- Aliens -- American born chinese -- American splendor : from off the streets of Cleveland -- The arrival -- Asterios polyp -- Asterix -- Aya of Yopougon -- Bacchus -- The ballad of Doctor Richardson -- Berlin : city of stones -- Binky Brown sampler -- Black hole -- Blackmark -- Blankets : an illustrated novel -- Blueberry -- Bone -- The book of Genesis -- The boulevard of broken dreams -- Box office poison -- Burma chronicles -- Cages -- Cancer vixen : a true story -- The cartoon sistory of the universe -- Castle waiting -- Chicken with plums -- City of glass -- Clumsy -- The color trilogy -- The complete Essex County -- The complete Fritz the Cat -- A contract with God, and other tenement stories -- The curious case of Benjamin Button -- David Boring -- Dead memory -- Dear Julia -- Deogratias : a tale of Rwanda -- Diary of a mosquito abatement man -- Dropsie Avenue : the neighborhood -- Dykes to watch out for -- Ed the Happy clown : the definitive Ed book -- Elk's Run -- Embroideries -- Epileptic -- Ethel and Ernest : a true story -- Exit wounds -- Far Arden -- Fax from Sarajevo : a story of survival -- The fixer : a story from Sarajevo -- Flaming carrot comics -- Flood! : a novel in pictures -- Footnotes in Gaza : a graphic novel -- The Frank book -- From hell : being a melodrama in sixteen parts -- Fun home : a family tragicomic -- Gemma Bovery -- Get a life -- Ghost world -- Give it up! : and other short stories -- Glacial period -- The Golem's Mighty Swing -- Good-bye, chunky rice -- Hard boiled -- Harum scarum -- Harvey Kurtzman's jungle book : or, up from the apes! (and right back down) -- Hate -- Haunted -- He done her wrong : the great American novel -- And not a word in it -- Hey, wait ... -- Hicksville -- A history of violence -- Houdini : the handcuff king. |
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Volume 2. Ice Haven -- Incognegro : a graphic mystery -- I never liked you : a comic-strip narrative -- In the shadow of No Towers -- It rhymes with lust -- It's a bird ... -- It's a good life, if you don't weaken : a picture novella -- It was the War of the Trenches -- Jar of fools : a picture story -- A Jew in communist Prague. 1. Loss of innocence -- The Jew of New York : a historical romance -- Jimmy Corrigan : the smartest kid on Earth -- Journey : the adventures of Wolverine MacAlistaire -- Journey into Mohawk Country -- Julius Knipl, real estate photographer : stories -- Kabuki -- Kafka -- Kampung Boy -- Kane -- King : a comics biography -- Kings in disguise -- Laika -- La perdida -- Last day in Vietnam : a memory -- Leave it to chance -- The life and times of Scrooge McDuck -- Life sucks -- Like a velvet glove cast in iron -- Long time relationship -- Lost cause : John Wesley Hardin, the Taylor-Sutton Feud, and reconstruction Texas -- Lost girl -- Lost girls -- Louis -- Louis Riel : a comic-strip biography -- Love and rockets -- Lucky -- Mail order bride -- Market day -- Maus : a survivor's tale -- Metropol : the complete series + Metropol A.D. -- Minor miracles : long ago and once upon a time back when uncles were heroic, cousins were clever, and miracles happened on every block -- Monologues for the coming plague -- Mouse guard -- My mommy is in America and she met Buffalo Bill -- Nat Turner -- Night fisher -- The 9/11 report : a graphic adaptation -- Notes for a war story -- Omaha the cat dancer -- One! hundred! demons! -- Our cancer year -- Owly -- Palestine -- Palomar : the heartbreak soup stories -- Passionate journey -- Paul -- Pedro and me : friendship, loss, and what I learned -- Percy Gloom -- Perfect example -- Persepolis -- The photographer : into war-torn Afghanistan with Doctors Without Borders -- The Plain Janes -- The playboy -- The poor bastard -- Predator -- Pride of Baghdad : inspired by a true story -- Pyongyang : a journey in North Korea -- Queen and country -- The rabbi's cat -- Rex Mundi -- Richard Stark's parker -- Road to perdition -- Robot dreams -- Rose : prequel to bone -- Safe area Goražde : the war in Eastern Bosnia 1992-95 -- Scary godmother : the boo flu -- Scott Pilgrim -- Shenzhen : a travelogue from China. |
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Volume 3. Shortcomings -- Shutterbug follies -- Signal to noise -- Sin city -- Skim -- Skitzy : the story of Floyd W. Skitzafroid -- Sloth -- A small killing -- The snowman -- Stitches : a memoir -- Strangers in paradise -- Stray bullets -- Stray toasters -- Streak of chalk -- Stuck rubber baby -- Suckle : the status of Basil -- The summer of love -- The system -- The tale of one bad rat -- Tales of the beanworld : a most peculiar comic book experience -- Tamara Drewe -- Tank girl -- Tantrum -- 30 days of night -- Three fingers -- 300 -- Three shadows -- The tragical comedy or comical tragedy of Mr. Punch -- Transit -- A treasury of Victorian murder -- Tricked -- Twentieth century eightball -- Violent cases -- The walking dead -- The wall : growing up behind the Iron Curtain -- Waltz with Bashir : a Lebanon war story -- We are on our own -- What it is -- When the wind blows -- Whiteout -- Why I hate Saturn -- Wilson -- Xenozoic tales -- Yossel : April 19, 1943 -- A story of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising -- You are here -- You'll never know. Book one. A good and decent man -- Zombies vs. robots -- Zot! : the complete black and white collection, 1987-1991 -- Resources -- Bibliography -- Guide to online resources -- Time line -- Major awards -- Works by artist -- Works by author -- Works by publisher -- Index. |
| Summary |
Contains essays covering graphic novels and core comics series, focusing on the independents and underground genre. Provides in-depth insight for the most popular and studied graphic novels. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Note |
Print version record. |
| Subject |
Graphic novels.
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Comic books, strips, etc.
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ANTIQUES & COLLECTIBLES -- Comics.
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Comic books, strips, etc. (OCoLC)fst00869145
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Graphic novels. (OCoLC)fst00946656
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Comicroman. (DE-588)7658564-5
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Comic. (DE-588)4010427-8
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| Added Author |
Beaty, Bart, editor.
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Weiner, Stephen, 1955- editor.
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| Added Title |
Independents and underground classics |
| Other Form: |
Print version: Critical survey of graphic novels. Ipswich, MA : Salem Press, ©2012 9781587659508 (DLC) 2011051380 (OCoLC)768418015 |
| ISBN |
9781587659546 (electronic bk.) |
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1587659549 (electronic bk.) |
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