Summary: "Comics have a pipeline to something very basic about the way people think." When the graphic novel Maus: A Survivor's Tale won a Special Pulitzer Prize in 1992 for its vivid depiction of the Holocaust and its effects, critics and mainstream audiences recognized that a comic book was capable of exploring complex aesthetic, moral, and cultural themes. Maus's creator Art Spiegelman (b. 1948)...

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Publisher / Publication Date: University Press of Mississippi 2007

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 741.597 SPI

Summary: Thirteen prominent cartoonists discuss their creative processes and the experiences and influences that led to their success in one of today's most vibrant art forms. Each interview is followed by an original graphic short on the common theme of "the city."

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Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2016

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Publisher / Publication Date: University Press of Mississippi 2000

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 SCHULZ, CHARLES Inge

Summary: Comics As Art: We Told You So tells of Fantagraphics Books' key role in helping build and shape an art movement around a discredited, ignored and fading expression of Americana the way insiders share the saga with one another other: in anecdotal form, in the words of the people who lived it and saw it happen. Comics historian and critic Tom Spurgeon and longtime Comics Journal editor Michael...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Fantagraphics Books 2016

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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 WE