The US Graphic Novel

Paul Williams

This book analyses the way that changes in the comics industry, book trade and webcomics distribution have shaped the publication of long-form comics. The US Graphic Novel pays particular attention to how the concept of the graphic novel developed through the twentieth-century. Art historians, journalists, and reviewers debated whether it was possible for a comic to be a novel - debates that accelerated after the term 'graphic novel' was coined by the comics fan Richard Kyle in 1964. This study underlines the proximity of the graphic novel to other media, showing that this cultural form is not only the meeting place between periodical comics and books, but that graphic novels are in dialogue with films, posters and computer screens.

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Frontmatter
pp i-iv

Contents
pp v-v

List of Figures
pp vi-vii

Preface
pp viii-ix

Series Preface
pp x-xii

Introduction
pp 1-18

1 - Precursors and Woodcut Novels: 14 September 1842 to the 1930s
pp 19-50

2 - Comics, Comics Everywhere at Mid-century
pp 51-75

3 - In Search of Adult Comics Readers: 1961–72
pp 76-106

4 - Declaration of Independents: 1973–9
pp 107-135

5 - ‘The Comic Book Grows Up’: 1979–91
pp 136-166

6 - Boom and Bust, Mainstream and Alternative: The 1990s
pp 167-189

7 - Twenty-first-century Graphic Novels
pp 190-235

Conclusion
pp 236-237

Index
pp 238-260

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