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Book Description
The first serious, readable, provocative, canon-smashing book of comics criticism by the leading critic in the field.
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 culContinue
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guardian.co.uk published on Sat, 25 Sep 2010
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Reading Comics
Either we have all turned into kidults or comics have suddenly grown up, because today it seems as though everyone is reading them. From the movies, where superheroes reign supreme, to the galleries, where many fine artists are discovering the medium ... (read full critics)
guardian.co.uk published on Fri, 24 Sep 2010
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- English Books
- Hardcover 405 Pages
- Edition: 1st Da Capo Press Ed
- ISBN-10: 0306815095
- ISBN-13: 9780306815096
- Publisher: Da Capo Press
- Pub date: Jul 02, 2007
- Dimensions: 1484 mm x 1032 mm x 258 mm Just how big is that?
- Also available as: Paperback
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| 9780306815096 | Hardcover | $22.95 | $17.08 | bn.com |
| $22.95 | $18.50 | The Book Depository | ||
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Forget the theory, enjoy the strips
Reading Comics by Douglas Wolk Da Capo Press £13.99, pp405 When Thierry Groensteen, the leading comics critic in Europe, said recently that the level of American criticism was 20 years behind Europe's, he knew he was asking for a Marvel-style clobber ... (read full critics)