Product details:
| ISBN13: | 9781978840690 |
| ISBN10: | 1978840691 |
| Binding: | Hardback |
| No. of pages: | 254 pages |
| Size: | 235x156x20 mm |
| Weight: | 463 g |
| Language: | English |
| Illustrations: | 18 color and 40 B-W images |
| 700 |
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Singular Sensations ? A Cultural History of One?Panel Comics in the United States
A Cultural History of One-Panel Comics in the United States
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Date of Publication: 28 October 2024
Number of Volumes: Hardback with laminated cover
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Short description:
Michelle Ann Abate examines what The Family Circus, Ziggy, and The Far Side all have in common—they’re single-panel comics, a seemingly simple form that presents cartoonists with a wide range of possibilities. Covering everything from nineteenth-century political cartoons to twenty-first-century web comics, she reveals their complexity, artistry, and influence.
Long description:
What do The Family Circus, Ziggy, and The Far Side have in common? They are all single-panel comics, a seemingly simple form that cartoonists have used in vastly different ways.
Singular Sensations is the first book-length critical study to examine this important but long-neglected mode of cartoon art. Michelle Ann Abate provides an overview of how the American single-panel comic evolved, starting with Thomas Nast?s political cartoons and R.F. Outcault?s groundbreaking Yellow Kid series in the nineteenth century. In subsequent chapters, she explores everything from wry New Yorker cartoons to zany twenty-first-century comics like Bizarro. Offering an important corrective to the canonical definition of comics as ?sequential art,? Abate reveals the complexity, artistry, and influence of the single-panel art form.
Engaging with a wide range of historical time periods, sociopolitical subjects, and aesthetic styles, Singular Sensations demonstrates how comics as we know and love them would not be the same without single-panel titles. Abate?s book brings the single-panel comic out of the margins and into the foreground.
Singular Sensations is the first book-length critical study to examine this important but long-neglected mode of cartoon art. Michelle Ann Abate provides an overview of how the American single-panel comic evolved, starting with Thomas Nast?s political cartoons and R.F. Outcault?s groundbreaking Yellow Kid series in the nineteenth century. In subsequent chapters, she explores everything from wry New Yorker cartoons to zany twenty-first-century comics like Bizarro. Offering an important corrective to the canonical definition of comics as ?sequential art,? Abate reveals the complexity, artistry, and influence of the single-panel art form.
Engaging with a wide range of historical time periods, sociopolitical subjects, and aesthetic styles, Singular Sensations demonstrates how comics as we know and love them would not be the same without single-panel titles. Abate?s book brings the single-panel comic out of the margins and into the foreground.
?With her trademark pitch-perfect precision and profound purview, Abate rips the curtains back to show the magic behind single-panel comic storytelling. With breathtaking historical scope and dazzling analyses of exemplars, Abate gifts us with generative concepts and vital tools that crack wide open understanding of how story works in one gestaltic gulp. Singular Sensations is the paradigm shift in Comics Studies we?ve long awaited!?? Frederick Luis Aldama, author of the Eisner?award winning Latinx Superheroes in Mainstream Comics
