Graphic Subjects: Critical Essays on Autobiography and by Michael A. Chaney

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By Michael A. Chaney

Some of the main noteworthy photograph novels and comedian books of contemporary years were solely autobiographical. In Graphic Subjects, Michael A. Chaney brings jointly a full of life mixture of students to ascertain using autobiography inside photo novels, together with such seriously acclaimed examples as artwork Spiegelman’s Maus, David Beauchard’s Epileptic, Marjane Satrapi’s Persepolis, Alan Moore’s Watchmen, and Gene Yang’s American Born Chinese.

those essays, observed by means of visible examples, light up the hot horizons that illustrated autobiographical narrative creates. the amount insightfully highlights the ways in which photograph novelists and literary cartoonists have integrated background, adventure, and lifestyles tales into their paintings. the result's a not easy and cutting edge assortment that finds the mixed strength of autobiography and the image novel.

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