Graphic novels : everything you need to know

Graphic novels : everything you need to know / Paul Gravett.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Gravett, Paul
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Collins Design : Distributed in the United States by HarperCollins Publishers, 2005.
Subjects:
Graphic novels > History and criticism.
Comic books, strips, etc. > History and criticism.
The Dr. Mark D. Nevins '86 Collection for the Study of Comics and Graphic Novels
Gift of Mark D. Nevins, Ph.D. (Class of 1986), 2017
Graphic novels.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Holy Cross Note:Nevins copy has subtitle: "Stories to change your life" on cover.
Nevins copy is First printing, October 2005.--Title page verso.
Table of Contents:
  • Things to hate about comics: overcoming negative thinking
  • Stories to change your life: thirty essential graphic novels to get you started
  • The undiscovered country: childhood' s happy days or painful memories
  • The other side of the tracks: growing up and making a life of your own
  • The long shadow: surviving war and its aftermath
  • The superhuman condition: what are your heroic ideals?
  • Of futures and fables: The meaning of dreams, the insight of fantasy
  • In the mind's eye: confronting the horrors that lurk among us
  • Murder, smoke, and shadows: the dangerous games of moral consequences
  • Behind the smile: seeing the funny side
  • Travels in time: inspired lives of curiosity and adventure
  • Passion beyond reason: unrequited love, affection, and secret desires
  • Afterthoughs: adaptations abridged too far, and a return to childish things.

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