Reading Comics: How Graphic Novels Work and What They Mean

Suddenly, comics are everywhere: a newly matured art form, filling bookshelves with brilliant, innovative work and shaping the ideas and images of the rest of contemporary culture. In Reading Comics, critic Douglas Wolk shows us why this is and how it came to be. Wolk illuminates the most dazzling creators of modern comics-from Alan Moore to Alison Bechdel to Dave Sim to Chris Ware -- and introduces a critical theory that explains where each fits into the pantheon of art. Reading Comics is accessible to the hardcore fan and the curious newcomer; it is the first book for people who want to know not just what comics are worth reading, but also the ways to think and talk and argue about them.

Author: Douglas Wolk
Publisher: Da Capo Press
Published: 06/10/2008
Pages: 416
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.99lbs
Size: 8.77h x 5.79w x 1.15d
ISBN13: 9780306816161
ISBN10: 0306816164
BISAC Categories:
- Literary Criticism | Comics & Graphic Novels

About the Author
Douglas Wolk writes about comics and music for publications including the New York Times, Rolling Stone, the Washington Post, Salon, and The Believer. He lives in Portland, Oregon.