Projections: Comics and the History of Twenty-First-Century Storytelling

by Jared Gardner

Book Overview

When Art Spiegelman's Maus won the Pulitzer Prize in 1992, it marked a new era for comics. Comics are now taken seriously by the same academic and cultural institutions that long dismissed the form. And the visibility of comics continues to increase, with alternative cartoonists now published by major presses and more comics-based films arriving on the screen each year.

Projections argues that the seemingly sudden visibility...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0804771464
• ISBN13: 9780804771467
• Release Date: January 2012
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 7.0" x 10.0"