Faster Than a Speeding Bullet

The Rise of the Graphic Novel

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64 pages

English language

Published Jan. 6, 2003 by NBM.

ISBN:
978-1-56163-367-8
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OCLC Number:
52727820

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3 stars (1 review)

Graphic novels have exploded off bookstore shelves into movies, college courses, and the New York Times book review, and comics historian and children's literature specialist Stephen Weiner explains the phenomenon in this groundbreaking book-the first history of graphic novels. From the agonizing Holocaust vision of Art Spiegelman's Maus to the teenage angst of Dan Clowes's Ghost World, this study enters the heart of the graphic novel revolution. The complete history of this popular format is explained, from the first modern, urban autobiographical graphic novel, Will Eisner.

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3 stars

A decent enough overview of the history of main stream comics. Because even if they started out more on the outside, every book mentioned in here did become pretty popular in their own right. A good introduction to the defining moments in graphic history. But if you aren't already into comics and graphics novels I'm not sure why you would pick up this book either.

It did remind me of a few books I had been meaning to read but weren't currently on my TBR.

Subjects

  • Graphic novels -- History and criticism
  • Comic books, strips, etc. -- History and criticism