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Author: Dominick Grace ,
Eric Hoffman
Publisher: University Press of Mississippi
Imprint: University Press of Mississippi
Weight: 0.475kg
ISBN: 9781496823366
ISBN 10: 1496823362
Pages: 308
Publication Date: 30 March 2019
Audience:
Professional and scholarly
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Professional & Vocational
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: Manufactured on demand
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Reviews
The collection is especially of use to scholars who might be looking for entry points into the Canadian comics scholarship.--Michael Dittman, Butler County Community College ""The Journal of Popular Culture"" A landmark collection that highlights the richness and complexity of comics in Canada from early-twentieth-century pioneers to today's celebrated and emerging cartoonists. These highly readable essays showcase the regional, cultural, political, and stylistic diversity of Canadian alternative comics and connect them to local and global contexts. The Canadian Alternative fills major gaps for comics fans and scholars looking to learn about Canada and for Canadian cultural critics and historians interested in print culture and alternative comics.--Candida Rifkind, associate professor of English at the University of Winnipeg and coeditor of Canadian Graphic: Picturing Life Narratives
A landmark collection that highlights the richness and complexity of comics in Canada from early-twentieth-century pioneers to today's celebrated and emerging cartoonists. These highly readable essays showcase the regional, cultural, political, and stylistic diversity of Canadian alternative comics and connect them to local and global contexts. The Canadian Alternative fills major gaps for comics fans and scholars looking to learn about Canada and for Canadian cultural critics and historians interested in print culture and alternative comics.--Candida Rifkind, associate professor of English at the University of Winnipeg and coeditor of Canadian Graphic: Picturing Life Narratives The collection is especially of use to scholars who might be looking for entry points into the Canadian comics scholarship.--Michael Dittman, Butler County Community College The Journal of Popular Culture
Author Information
Dominick Grace is author of The Science Fiction of Phyllis Gotlieb: A Critical Reading. Eric Hoffman is author of Oppen: A Narrative, the first biography of poet George Oppen. Together Hoffman and Grace have edited Dave Sim: Conversations; Chester Brown: Conversations; Seth: Conversations, Jim Shooter: Conversations, and Steve Gerber: Conversations, the latter two with Jason Sacks as coeditor, all published by University Press of Mississippi.
