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Singular Sensations - by Michelle Ann Abate
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Highlights
- What do The Family Circus, Ziggy, and The Far Side have in common?
- About the Author: MICHELLE ANN ABATE is professor of literature for children and young adults at the Ohio State University in Columbus.
- 254 Pages
- Literary Criticism, Comics & Graphic Novels
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About the Book
Michelle Ann Abate examines what The Family Circus, Ziggy, and The Far Side all have in common--they're single-panel comics, a seemingly simple form that presents cartoonists with a wide range of possibilities. Covering everything from nineteenth-century political cartoons to twenty-first-century web comics, she reveals their complexity, artistry, and influence.Book Synopsis
What do The Family Circus, Ziggy, and The Far Side have in common? They are all single-panel comics, a seemingly simple form that cartoonists have used in vastly different ways. Singular Sensations is the first book-length critical study to examine this important but long-neglected mode of cartoon art. Michelle Ann Abate provides an overview of how the American single-panel comic evolved, starting with Thomas Nast's political cartoons and R.F. Outcault's groundbreaking Yellow Kid series in the nineteenth century. In subsequent chapters, she explores everything from wry New Yorker cartoons to zany twenty-first-century comics like Bizarro. Offering an important corrective to the canonical definition of comics as "sequential art," Abate reveals the complexity, artistry, and influence of the single-panel art form. Engaging with a wide range of historical time periods, sociopolitical subjects, and aesthetic styles, Singular Sensations demonstrates how comics as we know and love them would not be the same without single-panel titles. Abate's book brings the single-panel comic out of the margins and into the foreground.Review Quotes
"With her trademark pitch-perfect precision and profound purview, Abate rips the curtains back to show the magic behind single-panel comic storytelling. With breathtaking historical scope and dazzling analyses of exemplars, Abate gifts us with generative concepts and vital tools that crack wide open understanding of how story works in one gestaltic gulp. Singular Sensations is the paradigm shift in Comics Studies we've long awaited!"--Frederick Luis Aldama "author of the Eisner-award winning Latinx Superheroes in Mainstream Comics"
About the Author
MICHELLE ANN ABATE is professor of literature for children and young adults at the Ohio State University in Columbus. She is the author of seven previous books of literary criticism, including Blockheads, Beagles, and Sweet Babboos: New Perspectives on Charles M. Schulz's Peanuts and the Lambda Literary Award nominee Tomboys: A Literary and Cultural History.Dimensions (Overall): 9.25 Inches (H) x 6.13 Inches (W) x .8 Inches (D)
Weight: 1.02 Pounds
Suggested Age: 22 Years and Up
Sub-Genre: Comics & Graphic Novels
Genre: Literary Criticism
Number of Pages: 254
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Format: Hardcover
Author: Michelle Ann Abate
Language: English
Street Date: September 13, 2024
TCIN: 1002542813
UPC: 9781978840690
Item Number (DPCI): 247-00-4322
Origin: Made in the USA or Imported
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