A noted comics artist himself; Santiago Garciacute;a follows the history of the graphic novel from early nineteenth-century European sequential art; through the development of newspaper strips in the United States; to the development of the twentieth-century comic book and its subsequent crisis. He considers the aesthetic and entrepreneurial innovations that established the conditions for the rise of the graphic novel all over the world. Garciacute;a not only treats the formal components of the art; but also examines the cultural position of comics in various formats as a popular medium. Typically associated with children; often viewed as unedifying and even at times as a threat to moral character; comics art has come a long way. With such examples from around the world as Spain; France; Germany; and Japan; Garciacute;a illustrates how the graphic novel; with its increasingly global and aesthetically sophisticated profile; represents a new model for graphic narrative production that empowers authors and challenges longstanding social prejudices against comics and what they can achieve.
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