Description: A close reading of the innovative, distinctive vision of Pere Joan, who has pushed boundaries in Spain's comics scene for more than four decades and stoked a new understanding of the nature of reading comics.
Brief description: Benjamin Fraser is a professor and head of the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at the University of Arizona. He is the author or editor of numerous books, including Toward an Urban Cultural Studies: Henri Lefebvre and the Humanities and Antonio López García's Everyday Urban Worlds. He is also an editor for the Journal of Urban Cultural Studies and the Arizona Journal of Hispanic Cultural Studies.
Review Quotes: The Art of Pere Joan is a valuable contribution...Its historical introduction as well as its balanced blend of theory and close reading makes this book a useful tool for scholars and students interested in comics in general but also Iberian cultural studies in particular.-- "European Comic Art" (7/1/2020 12:00:00 AM)