Since the graphic novel rose to prominence half a century ago, it has become one of the fastest growing literary/artistic genres, generating interest from readers globally. The Cambridge Companion to the Graphic Novel examines the evolution of comic books into graphic novels and the distinct development of this art form both in America and around the world. This Companion also explores the diverse subgenres often associated with it, such as journalism, fiction, historical fiction, autobiography, biography, science fiction, and fantasy. Leading scholars offer insights into graphic novel adaptations of prose works and the adaptation of graphic novels to films; analyses of outstanding graphic novels, like Maus and The Walking Man ; an overview which distinguishes the international graphic novel from its American counterpart; and analyses of how the form works and what it teaches, making this book a key resource for scholars, graduate students, and undergraduate students alike.
Stephen E. Tabachnick is Professor of English Literature at the University of Memphis. He has edited or written eleven books, including three on the graphic novel, and has been teaching university courses on the graphic novel for over twenty years. In 2015, he guest-edited a special issue of the journal Studies in the Novel on the graphic novel. He recently won the University of Memphis' award for distinguished research in the Humanities. His original field of specialization is Lawrence of Arabia as a writer, and Tabachnick has written or edited four books on Lawrence, including Images of Lawrence , the 1988 centenary volume published by Lawrence's own publisher, Jonathan Cape, in London.
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Contents
Randy Duncan and Matthew J. Smith
Stephen E. Tabachnick
Stephen Weiner
Dan Mazur and Alexander Danner
Hugo Frey
Darren Harris-Fain
Martha Kuhlman
Jan Baetens
Esther Bendit Saltzman
M. Keith Booker
Bart Beaty
James Bucky Carter
Figures
Contributors
Jan Baetens , University of Leuven
Bart Beaty , University of Calgary
M. Keith Booker , University of Arkansas
James Bucky Carter , Independent Researcher and Educator
Alexander Danner , Emerson College
Randy Duncan , Henderson State University
Hugo Frey , University of Chichester
Darren Harris-Fain , Auburn University at Montgomery
Martha Kuhlman , Bryant University
Daniel Mazur , Art Institute of Boston; Brookline Arts Center
Esther Bendit Saltzman , University of Memphis
Matthew J. Smith , Radford University
Stephen E. Tabachnick , University of Memphis
Stephen Weiner , Maynard Public Library
Chronology
16971764
William Hogarth, painter, printmaker, cartoonist ( A Harlot's Progress , A Rake's Progress )
17561815
James Gillray, caricaturist, printmaker ( John Bull's Progress )
17561827
Thomas Rowlandson, artist, caricaturist ( Dr. Syntax )
17571827
William Blake, poet, painter, engraver ( Songs of Innocence and Experience , The Marriage of Heaven and Hell )
17991846
Rodolphe Tppfer, author, painter, cartoonist, caricaturist ( Histoire de Monsieur Jabot )
18001862
Charles Philipon, caricaturist, editor of Le Charivari
18121887
Henry Mayhew, journalist, playwright, editor of Punch
18321908
Wilhelm Busch ( Max und Moritz )
18631928
Richard Felton Outcault ( The Yellow Kid , Buster Brown )
18711956
Lyonel Feininger ( Wee Willie Winkie's World )
18711934
Winsor McCay ( Little Nemo in Slumberland )
18801944
George Herriman ( Krazy Kat )
18881955
Otto Nckel ( Schicksal: Eine Geschichte in Bildern / Destiny: A Novel in Pictures )
18891972
Frans Masereel ( Mon Livre d'Heures / Passionate Journey )
18911976
Max Ernst ( Une Semaine de Bont / A Week of Kindness )
18941947
Max Gaines (Maxwell Ginsburg) ( Famous Funnies )
18951953
Milt Gross ( He Done Her Wrong )
19051985
Lynd Ward ( Six Novels in Woodcuts )
19071983
Herg (Georges Prosper Remi) ( Tintin )
19141992
Joe Shuster ( Superman )
19141996
Jerry Siegel ( Superman )
19171943
Charlotte Salomon ( Leben? oder Theater?/Life? or Theatre? )
19171994
Jack Kirby (Jacob Kurtzberg) ( Young Love , X-Men )
19172005
Will Eisner ( The Spirit , A Contract with God and Other Tenement Stories , Comics and Sequential Art )
19221992
William Gaines ( Tales from the Crypt )
1922
Stan Lee ( The Amazing Spider-Man , X-Men )
19241993
Harvey Kurtzman ( Mad )
19271995
Hugo Pratt ( Corto Maltese )
19281989
Osamu Tezuka ( MW , Astro Boy / Mighty Atom , Buddha )
1937
Tom Phillips ( A Humument )
1938
Trina Robbins ( Wimmen's Comix )
19392010
Harvey Pekar ( American Splendor )
1941
Hiyao Miyazaki ( Nausica of the Valley of the Wind )
1943
R. Crumb ( Fritz the Cat , Mr. Natural , The Book of Genesis Illustrated )
1940
Gilbert Shelton ( The Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers )
1946
Jacques Tardi ( Ctait la Guerre des Tranches / It Was the War of the Trenches )
19472017
Jiro Taniguchi ( The Walking Man / Aruko Hito )
1948
Aline Kominsky-Crumb ( Need More Love )
1948
Art Spiegelman ( Maus )
1952
Bryan Talbot ( The Adventures of Luther Arkwright )
1953
Alan Moore ( Watchmen , V for Vendetta )
19572007
Didier Lefvre, photographer, journalist ( The Photographer / Le Photographe )
1957
Gilbert Hernandez ( Love and Rockets )
1957
Frank Miller ( Batman: The Dark Knight Returns , Sin City )
1958
Thierry Groensteen, theoretician ( Systme de la Bande Dessine/The System of Comics )
1959
David Beauchard ( L'Ascension du Haut Mal / Epileptic )
1959
Jaime Hernandez ( Love and Rockets )
1960