TY - BOOK ID - 119322738 TI - Drawing from the archives : comics memory in the contemporary graphic novel PY - 2023 SN - 1009250957 1009250922 1009250949 1009250930 9781009250948 PB - Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, DB - UniCat KW - Graphic novels KW - Comic books, strips, etc. KW - History and criticism. KW - Comic book novels KW - Fiction graphic novels KW - Fictive graphic novels KW - Graphic albums KW - Graphic fiction KW - Graphic nonfiction KW - Graphic novellas KW - Nonfiction graphic novels KW - Fiction KW - Popular literature UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:119322738 AB - Following Art Spiegelman's declaration that 'the future of comics is in the past,' this book considers comics memory in the contemporary North American graphic novel. Cartoonists such as Chris Ware, Seth, Charles Burns, Daniel Clowes, and others have not only produced some of the most important graphic novels, they have also turned to the history of comics as a common visual heritage to pass on to new readers. This book is a full-length study of contemporary cartoonists when they are at work as historians: it offers a detailed description of how they draw from the archives of comics history, examining the different gestures of collecting, curating, reprinting, forging, swiping, and undrawing that give shape to their engagement with the past. In recognizing these different acts of transmission, this book argues for a material and vernacular history of how comics are remembered, shared, and recirculated over time. ER -