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Comics, Manga, and Graphic Novels by Location: Mugar Stacks PN6710 .P415 2011Publication Date: 2010This text examines comics, graphic novels, and manga with a broad, international scope that reveals their conceptual origins in antiquity.
Autobiographical Comics: Life Writing in Pictures by Location: OnlinePublication Date: 2012Over the last forty years the comic book has become an increasingly popular way of telling personal stories of considerable complexity and depth. The book considers eighty-five works of North American and European provenance.
Contemporary Comics Storytelling by Location: OnlineISBN: 9780803246379Publication Date: 2013-10-01What if fairy-tale characters lived in New York City? What if a superhero knew he was a fictional character? What if you could dispense your own justice with one hundred untraceable bullets? These are the questions asked and answered in the course of the challenging storytelling in Fables, Tom Strong, and 100 Bullets, the three twenty-first-century comics series that Karin Kukkonen considers in depth in her exploration of how and why the storytelling in comics is more than merely entertaining.
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