THE GRAPHIC NOVEL, AN INTRODUCTION

This book provides both students and scholars with a critical and historical introduction to the graphic novel. Jan Baetens and Hugo Frey explore this exciting form of visual and literary communication, showing readers how to situate and analyze graphic novels sin ce their rise to prominence half a century ago. Several key questions are addressed: What is the graphic novel? How do we read graph ic novels as narrative forms? Why is page design and publishing format so significant? What theories are developing to explain the g enre? Ho...[Read more]