Drawing from the Archives: Comics Memory in the Contemporary Graphic Novel

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

Author: Beno?t Crucifix
Binding Type: Hardcover
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 07/20/2023
Series: Cambridge Studies in Graphic Narratives
Pages: 280
Weight: 1.31lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.81d
ISBN: 9781009250931