Why Comics?: From Underground to Everywhere
(eBook)

Book Cover
Average Rating
Published
HarperCollins Publishers, 2017.
ISBN
9780062476814
Status
Available Online

Description

Loading Description...

Also in this Series

Checking series information...

More Like This

Loading more titles like this title...

More Details

Format
eBook
Language
English

Reviews from GoodReads

Loading GoodReads Reviews.

Citations

APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)

Hillary Chute., & Hillary Chute|AUTHOR. (2017). Why Comics?: From Underground to Everywhere . HarperCollins Publishers.

Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)

Hillary Chute and Hillary Chute|AUTHOR. 2017. Why Comics?: From Underground to Everywhere. HarperCollins Publishers.

Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)

Hillary Chute and Hillary Chute|AUTHOR. Why Comics?: From Underground to Everywhere HarperCollins Publishers, 2017.

MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)

Hillary Chute, and Hillary Chute|AUTHOR. Why Comics?: From Underground to Everywhere HarperCollins Publishers, 2017.

Note! Citations contain only title, author, edition, publisher, and year published. Citations should be used as a guideline and should be double checked for accuracy. Citation formats are based on standards as of August 2021.

Staff View

Go To Grouped Work

Grouping Information

Grouped Work IDf77777b3-4e3c-9bba-32be-1b22e12f5e0e-eng
Full titlewhy comics from underground to everywhere
Authorchute hillary
Grouping Categorybook
Last Update2024-03-20 23:01:07PM
Last Indexed2024-03-29 05:12:41AM

Book Cover Information

Image Sourcehoopla
First LoadedJan 16, 2023
Last UsedFeb 23, 2024

Hoopla Extract Information

stdClass Object
(
    [year] => 2017
    [artist] => Hillary Chute
    [fiction] => 
    [coverImageUrl] => https://cover.hoopladigital.com/hpc_9780062476814_270.jpeg
    [titleId] => 12557925
    [isbn] => 9780062476814
    [abridged] => 
    [language] => ENGLISH
    [profanity] => 
    [title] => Why Comics?
    [demo] => 
    [segments] => Array
        (
        )

    [pages] => 464
    [children] => 
    [artists] => Array
        (
            [0] => stdClass Object
                (
                    [name] => Hillary Chute
                    [artistFormal] => Chute, Hillary
                    [relationship] => AUTHOR
                )

        )

    [genres] => Array
        (
            [0] => Art
            [1] => Cartooning
            [2] => Comics & Graphic Novels
            [3] => Literary Criticism
            [4] => Techniques
        )

    [price] => 3.19
    [id] => 12557925
    [edited] => 
    [kind] => EBOOK
    [active] => 1
    [upc] => 
    [synopsis] => A New York Times Notable Book

Filled with beautiful full-color art, dynamic storytelling, and insightful analysis, Hillary Chute reveals what makes one of the most critically acclaimed and popular art forms so unique and appealing, and how it got that way.

Over the past century, fans have elevated comics from the back pages of newspapers into one of our most celebrated forms of culture, from Fun Home, the Tony Award–winning musical based on Alison Bechdel's groundbreaking graphic memoir, to the dozens of superhero films that are annual blockbusters worldwide. What is the essence of comics' appeal? What does this art form do that others can't?

Whether you've read every comic you can get your hands on or you're just starting your journey, Why Comics? has something for you. Author Hillary Chute chronicles comics culture, explaining underground comics (also known as "comix") and graphic novels, analyzing their evolution, and offering fascinating portraits of the creative men and women behind them. Chute reveals why these works-a blend of concise words and striking visuals-are an extraordinarily powerful form of expression that stimulates us intellectually and emotionally.

Focusing on ten major themes-disaster, superheroes, sex, the suburbs, cities, punk, illness and disability, girls, war, and queerness-Chute explains how comics get their messages across more effectively than any other form. "Why Disaster?" explores how comics are uniquely suited to convey the scale and disorientation of calamity, from Art Spiegelman's representation of the Holocaust and 9/11 to Keiji Nakazawa's focus on Hiroshima. "Why the Suburbs?" examines how the work of Chris Ware and Charles Burns illustrates the quiet joys and struggles of suburban existence; and "Why Punk?" delves into how comics inspire and reflect the punk movement's DIY aesthetics-giving birth to a democratic medium increasingly embraced by some of today's most significant artists.

Featuring full-color reproductions of more than one hundred essential pages and panels, including some famous but never-before-reprinted images from comics legends, Why Comics? is an indispensable guide that offers a deep understanding of this influential art form and its masters.
    [url] => https://www.hoopladigital.com/title/12557925
    [pa] => 
    [subtitle] => From Underground to Everywhere
    [publisher] => HarperCollins Publishers
    [purchaseModel] => INSTANT
)