{"product_id":"alternative-comics-an-emerging-literature-9781578067190","title":"Alternative Comics: An Emerging Literature","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn the 1980s  a sea change occurred in comics. Fueled by Art Spiegel- man and Franoise Moulys avant-garde anthology Raw and the launch of the Love \u0026amp; Rockets series by Gilbert  Jaime  and Mario Hernandez  the decade saw a deluge of comics that were more autobiographical  emotionally realistic  and experimental than anything seen before. These alternative comics were not the scatological satires of the 1960s underground  nor were they brightly colored newspaper strips or superhero comic books.  In Alternative Comics: An Emerging Literature  Charles Hatfield establishes the parameters of alternative comics by closely examining long-form comics  in particular the graphic novel. He argues that these are fundamentally a literary form and offers an extensive critical study of them both as a literary genre and as a cultural phenomenon. Combining sharp-eyed readings and illustrations from particular texts with a larger understanding of the comics as an art form  this book discusses the development of specific genres  such as autobiography and history.  Alternative Comics analyzes such seminal works as Spiegelmans Maus  Gilbert Hernandezs Palomar: The Heartbreak Soup Stories  and Justin Greens Binky Brown Meets the Holy Virgin Mary. Hatfield explores how issues outside of cartooning-the marketplace  production demands  work schedules-can affect the final work. Using Hernandezs Palomar as an example  he shows how serialization may determine the way a cartoonist structures a narrative. In a close look at Maus  Binky Brown  and Harvey Pekars American Splendor  Hatfield teases out the complications of creating biography and autobiography in a substantially visual medium  and shows how creators approach these issues in radically different ways.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45648074866741,"sku":"ByrdShop_1578067197","price":25.1,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9781578067190.jpg?v=1781708655","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/alternative-comics-an-emerging-literature-9781578067190","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}