Mainstream narratives of the graphic novel’s development describe
the form’s “coming of age,” its maturation from pulp infancy
to literary adulthood. In Arresting Development, Christopher
Pizzino questions these established narratives, arguing that the
medium’s history of censorship and marginalization endures in the
minds of its present-day readers and, crucially, its authors.
Comics and their writers remain burdened by the stigma of literary
illegitimacy and the struggles for status that marked their earlier
history. Many graphic novelists are intensely aware of both the
medium’s troubled past and their own tenuous status in
contemporary culture. Arresting Development presents case studies
of four key works—Frank Miller’s Batman: The Dark Knight
Returns, Alison Bechdel’s Fun Home, Charles Burns’s Black Hole,
and Gilbert Hernandez’s Love and Rockets—exploring how their
authors engage the problem of comics’ cultural standing. Pizzino
illuminates the separation of high and low culture, art and pulp,
and sophisticated appreciation and vulgar consumption as continual
influences that determine the limits of literature, the status of
readers, and the value of the very act of reading.
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