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    • Title:The rise of the American comics artist [electronic resource] : creators and contexts / edited by Paul Williams and James Lyons.
    • ISBN:160473793X
      9781604737936
      1604737913 (cloth : alk. paper)
      1604737921 (pbk. : alk. paper)
      9781604737912 (cloth : alk. paper)
      9781604737929 (pbk. : alk. paper)
    • Published/Created:Jackson [Miss.] : University Press of Mississippi, c2010. (Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2012)
    • Physical Description:1 online resource (xxiv, 253 p. :) ill. ;
    • Links:Online book
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    • Local Notes:Access is available to the Yale community.
    • Notes:Description based on print version record.
    • Access and use:Access restricted by licensing agreement.
    • Variant and related titles:Project MUSE - UPCC 2010 Current Complete Collection.
      Project MUSE - UPCC 2010 Literature Collection.
      Project MUSE - UPCC 2010-2012 Current Complete Collection Bundle.
      UPCC book collections on Project MUSE.
    • Format:Book
    • BibliographyIncludes bibliographical references and index.
    • Contents:In the year 3794 / Paul Williams and James Lyons -- How the graphic novel changed American comics / Stephen Weiner -- "Is this a book?" DC Vertigo and the redefinition of comics in the 1990s / Julia Round -- Signals from airstrip one : the British invasion of mainstream American comics / Chris Murray -- State of the nation and the Freedom fighters arc / Graham J. Murphy -- Critique, caricature, and compulsion in Joe Sacco's comics journalism / Adam Rosenblatt and Andrea A. Lunsford -- Too much commerce man? Shannon Wheeler and the ironies of the "Rebel cell" / James Lyons -- Comics against themselves : Chris Ware's graphic narratives as literature / David M. Ball -- Questions of "contemporary women's comics" / Paul Williams -- Theorizing sexuality in comics / Joe Sutliff Sanders -- Feminine Latin/o American identities on the American alternative landscape : from the women of Love and rockets to La perdida / Ana Merino -- Making comics respectable : how Maus helped redefine a medium / Ian Gordon -- "A purely American tale" : the tragedy of racism and Jimmy Corrigan : the smartest kid on earth as great American novel / Paul Williams -- "That mouse's shadow" : the canonization of Spiegelman's Maus / Andrew Loman.
    • Subjects:Cartoonists--United States--Biography.
      Comic books, strips, etc.--United States--History--20th century.
    • Also listed under:Lyons, James, 1972-
      Williams, Paul, 1979-
      Project Muse.