Comic Books as History: The Narrative Art of Jack Jackson, Art Spiegelman, and Harvey Pekar

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Univ. Press of Mississippi, 1989 - 164 sivua
This well focused and perceptive analysis of a phenomenon in our popular culture--the new respectability of the comic book form--argues that the comics medium has a productive tradition of telling true stories with grace and economy. It details vividly the outburst of underground comics in the late 1960s and '70s, whose cadre of artistically gifted creators were committed to writing comic books for adults, an audience they made aware that comic books can offer narratives of great power and technical sophistication.

In this study Joseph Witek examines the rise of the comic book to a position of importance in modern culture and assesses its ideological and historical implications. Jack Jackson, Art Spiegelman, and Harvey Pekar are among the creators whom Witek credits for the emergence of the comic book as a serious artistic medium. As American codes of ethics, aesthetics, and semiotics have evolved, so too has the comic book as a mode for presenting the weightier matters of history. It

 

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Joseph Witek is director of graduate studies and professor of English at Stetson University. He is author of Comic Books as History: The Narrative Art of Jack Jackson, Art Spiegelman, and Harvey Pekar and editor of Art Spiegalman: Conversations, both published by University Press of Mississippi.

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