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An authoritative exploration of how the comics achieve meaning, form, and function. This edition of Thierry Groensteen's The System of Comics makes available in English a groundbreaking work on comics by one of the medium's foremost scholars. In this book, originally published in France in 1999, Groensteen explains clearly the subtle, complex workings of the medium and its unique way of combining visual, verbal, spatial, and chronological expressions. The author explores the nineteenth-century pioneer Rodolphe Töpffer, contemporary Japanese creators, George Herriman's Krazy Kat, and modern American autobiographical comics. The System of Comics uses examples from a wide variety of countries including the United States, England, Japan, France, and Argentina. It describes and analyzes the properties and functions of speech and thought balloons, panels, strips, and pages to examine methodically and insightfully the medium's fundamental processes. From this, Groensteen develops his own coherent, overarching theory of comics, a "system" that both builds on existing studies of the "word and image" paradigm and adds innovative approaches of his own. Examining both meaning and appreciation, the book provides a wealth of ideas that will challenge the way scholars approach the study of comics. By emphasizing not simply "storytelling techniques" but also the qualities of the printed page and the reader's engagement, the book's approach is broadly applicable to all forms of interpreting this evolving art.

Comic books, strips, etc. --- Semiotics. --- History and criticism. --- Comic books, strips, etc --- Bandes dessinées --- Histoire et critique

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Dans un pays indéterminé, à notre époque, existe une demeure grandiose et abandonnée au milieu d’une zone pavillonnaire. Cette maison à l’architecture postmoderne et baroque fut construite il y a longtemps déjà par l’étrange Mr Zéro. Trois voisins (trois crapules) voyeurs et peu scrupuleux sont obsédés par cette maison dans laquelle personne ne rentre et d’où personne ne sort. Ces voisins décident un soir de s’y introduire ensemble pour en percer les secrets ; à leurs risques et périls. Dans Le Mystère de la Maison Brume, Lisa Mouchet met en pages un livre d’enquête où les trois petits cochons s’introduiraient chez le grand méchant loup ! Cette bande dessinée entièrement en vue subjective, plonge le lecteur dans une expérience narrative et graphique sidérante qui fait se rencontrer David Hockney, David Lynch et Agatha Christie. Le Mystère de la Maison Brume de Lisa Mouchet rappelle aussi les frissons et créations visuelles des premiers jeux vidéos d’enquête et d’aventure en tableaux non-animés tels que Mystery House sur Apple IIou Le Manoir de Mortevielle sur Atari et Amiga.

Architecture --- Pictorial works --- Comic books, strips, etc. --- Ouvrages illustrés --- Bandes dessinées --- Mouchet, Lisa

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"Comics have never been a more dynamic and challenging art form than in the 21st century. The phenomenal growth of graphic novels and manga and the explosion of comics on the internet and other platforms have given their creators unprecedented freedom to innovate. Many can enjoy widespread acclaim in the art world, in literary circles and through their multimedia adaptations. Comics Art takes an international approach by tracing lines of influence around the world to give historical contexts and contemporary perspectives for this huge current interest in the medium. Richly illustrated with many images taken from original artwork and rare artefacts, Comics Art gives a fascinating, accessible guide to some of the special properties of sequential art, such as panels, page layouts, speech balloons and wordless or 'silent' narration. It addresses concerns about how comics perpetuate stereotypes and support the status quo, while assessing their growing significance, notably through autobiography and reportage, as vehicles for provocative voices often silenced in other media. Comics Art also explores the diversity of styles, media and approaches now possible in the medium and exciting developments in digital comics and in comics conceived for galleries and installations."--Back cover. In this fascinating survey, acclaimed author Paul Gravett considers the vast output of comics culture from the late 19th century to today, tracing international lines of influence and examining major themes in contemporary comics.

Bandes dessinées --- Histoire et critique --- Histoire et critique. --- Comic books, strips, etc --- Comic books, strips, etc. --- Comic. --- Graphic novels --- Graphic novels. --- Illustration. --- Intermediality. --- History and criticism. --- Influence on mass media.

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"Highlights the use and focus of comics by librarians and library workers who practice critical librarianship"--

Libraries --- Academic libraries --- Libraries and society. --- Special collections --- Relations with faculty and curriculum. --- Collection development. --- Comic books, strips, etc --- Critical theory. --- Comic books, strips, etc. --- Graphic novels. --- Social aspects.

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An accessible introduction to the development and diversity of Japanese comics from 1945 to the present.

Graphic arts --- anno 1900-1999 --- Japan --- Comic books, strips, etc. --- History and criticism --- J5960 --- 741.5 --- beeldverhaal --- kunst --- manga --- stripgeschiedenis --- strips --- tekenkunst --- twintigste eeuw --- 799.95 --- Manga --- geschiedenis --- striptekenen --- Japan: Literature -- modern fiction and prose -- manga --- History and criticism. --- 741.53 --- Comic books, strips, etc --- Comic books, strips, etc. - Japan - History and criticism --- beeldverhalen