This book provides both students and scholars with a critical and
historical introduction to the graphic novel. Jan Baetens and Hugo
Frey explore this exciting form of visual and literary
communication, showing readers how to situate and analyse graphic
novels since their rise to prominence half a century ago. Several
key questions are addressed: what is the graphic novel? How do we
read graphic novels as narrative forms? Why is page design and
publishing format so significant? What theories are developing to
explain the genre? How is this form blurring the categories of high
and popular literature? Why are graphic novelists nostalgic for the
old comics? The authors address these and many other questions
raised by the genre. Through their analysis of the works of many
well-known graphic novelists - including Bechdel, Clowes,
Spiegelman and Ware - Baetens and Frey offer significant insights
for future teaching and research on the graphic novel.
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