[Comicsstudiessociety] The US Graphic Novel by Paul Williams available for review worldwide

[Mike Rhode]

 Edinburgh University Press: *The US Graphic Novel *by Paul Williams.
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Provides a history of US graphic novels from the 1910s to the present

   - Emphasises the relationship between comics and other media
   - Explains the role that fans, reviewers and critics have played in
   constructing the concept of a comic that is also a novel
   - Substantively covers the pre-1980s history of the graphic novel
   - Suitable as secondary reading on taught undergraduate and postgraduate
   courses
   - Written in an accessible manner with key terms explained when first
   used
   - Provides analyses of Lynd Ward’s *Gods’ Man*, Samuel R. Delany and
   Howard Chaykin’s *Empire*, Art Spiegelman’s *Maus*, Alison Bechdel’s *Fun
   Home* and Jeremy Love’s *Bayou*

This book analyses the way that changes in the comics industry, book trade
and webcomics distribution have shaped the publication of long-form
comics. *The
US Graphic Novel* pays particular attention to how the concept of the
graphic novel developed through the twentieth century. Art historians,
journalists, and reviewers debated whether it was possible for a comic to
be a novel – debates that accelerated after the term ’graphic novel’ was
coined by the comics fan Richard Kyle in 1964. This study underlines the
proximity of the graphic novel to other media, showing that this cultural
form is not only the meeting place between periodical comics and books, but
that graphic novels are in dialogue with films, posters and computer
screens.

Contact me *DIRECTLY *and let me know why you're interested and qualified.

thanks,

Mike Rhode
mrhode at gmail.com
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