Existentialist Comics: Bande Dessinée and the Art of Ethics

by Elizabeth Benjamin and Benjamin

This book explores the historical and artistic value of three bande dessin e (BD), French-language comics, that depict the lives of Existentialist thinkers Jean-Paul Sartre, Simone de Beauvoir and Albert Camus. The work is the first to analyse biographical BD through the lens of Existentialism, offering a new theory of reading biographical comics.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1800792735
• ISBN13: 9781800792739
• Release Date: October 2021
• Publisher: Peter Lang Ltd, International Academic Publis
• Length: 216 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"