Masters of American Comics by Cynthia Burlingham (2005, Hardcover)

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MASTERS OF AMERICAN COMICS By John Carlin & Paul Karasik & Brian Walker & De Tom Haven & Cynthia Burlingham & Stanley Crouch & Jules Feiffer & Karla Ann Marling - Hardcover **BRAND NEW**.

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PublisherYale University Press
ISBN-10030011317X
ISBN-139780300113174
eBay Product ID (ePID)9038282186

Product Key Features

Book TitleMasters of American Comics
Number of Pages328 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year2005
TopicTechniques / Cartooning, Popular Culture, Comics & Graphic Novels
IllustratorYes
GenreLiterary Criticism, Art
AuthorCynthia Burlingham
FormatHardcover

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Item Height1.1 in
Item Weight73.8 Oz
Item Length12.5 in
Item Width9 in

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Intended AudienceTrade
LCCN2005-019449
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Dewey Edition22
Dewey Decimal741.5/973/07479494
SynopsisComic strips and comic books were among the most popular and influential forms of mass media in 20thcentury America. This fascinating book focuses on fifteen pioneering cartoonists--ranging from Winsor McCay to Chris Ware--who brought this genre to the highest level of artistic expression and who had the greatest impact on the development of the form.Organized chronologically, Masters of American Comics explores the rise of newspaper comic strips and comic books and considers their artistic development throughout the century. Presenting a wide selection of original drawings as well as progressive proofs, vintage printed Sunday pages, and comic books themselves, the authors also look at how the art of comics was transformed by artistic innovation as well as by changes in popular taste, economics, and printing conventions.First appearing in newspaper Sunday supplements, the comic strip became immediately successful and created the largest audience of any medium of its time. The comic book first began as a way to print existing newspaper comics, then subsequently established the mass popularity of superheroes in the 1940s and 1950s before it matured as a vehicle for independent personal expression in the underground comic books and graphic novels of the 1960s.Included in the book are insightful and entertaining essays on individual artists written by major figures in the fields of comics, narrative illustration, literature, popular culture, and art history. Masters of American Comics convincingly positions the genre of comics into the history of art and is destined to become a classic text for years to come., Comic strips and comic books were among the most popular and influential forms of mass media in 20thcentury America. This fascinating book focuses on fifteen pioneering cartoonists--ranging from Winsor McCay to Chris Ware--who brought this genre to the highest level of artistic expression and who had the greatest impact on the development of the form.Organized chronologically, "Masters of American Comics "explores the rise of newspaper comic strips and comic books and considers their artistic development throughout the century. Presenting a wide selection of original drawings as well as progressive proofs, vintage printed Sunday pages, and comic books themselves, the authors also look at how the art of comics was transformed by artistic innovation as well as by changes in popular taste, economics, and printing conventions.First appearing in newspaper Sunday supplements, the comic strip became immediately successful and created the largest audience of any medium of its time. The comic book first began as a way to print existing newspaper comics, then subsequently established the mass popularity of superheroes in the 1940s and 1950s before it matured as a vehicle for independent personal expression in the underground comic books and graphic novels of the 1960s.Included in the book are insightful and entertaining essays on individual artists written by major figures in the fields of comics, narrative illustration, literature, popular culture, and art history. "Masters of American Comics "convincingly positions the genre of comics into the history of art and is destined to become a classic text for years to come., The first comprehensive history of 20th-century American comics to examine the genre's significant and varied contributions to art and culture, This fascinating book focuses on fifteen pioneering cartoonists--ranging from Winsor McCay to Chris Ware--who brought this genre to the highest level of artistic expression and who had the greatest impact on the development of the form.
LC Classification NumberNC1426.M34 2005

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