Description:
Focusing on such acclaimed examples as Maus, Persepolis, and Watchmen, these essays successfully highlight the ways that graphic novelists and literary cartoonists have incorporated history, experience, and autobiography into their work. The result is a collection that is both challenging and innovative.
Review Quotes:
"This is a varied but well-focused collection of essays that is more thorough than anything else in print. Readers of graphic novels and autobiography will need to start here to learn the basic principles of discussion and terms of discourse."--M. Thomas Inge, author of Comics as Culture