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Pocket Essentials is a dynamic series of books that are concise, lively, and easy to read. Packed with facts as well as expert opinions, each book has all the key information you need to know about such popular topics as film, television, cult fiction, history, and more. This is the first book-length critical study of Robert Crumb, covering all of his cross-cultural endeavours in comics, music, and film. Every significant Crumb comic and story is examined, from the … More >>

Robert Crumb

• ISBN13: 9780306816161
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• Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.

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The first serious, readable, provocative, canon-smashing book of comics theory and criticism by the leading critic in the field. Suddenly, comics are everywhere: a newly matured art form, filling bookshelves with brilliant, innovative work and shaping the ideas and images of the rest of contemporary culture. In Reading Comics, critic Douglas Wolk shows us why and how. Wolk illuminates the most dazzling creators of modern comics–from Alan Moore to Alison Bechdel… More >>

Reading Comics: How Graphic Novels Work and What They Mean