The Comics Journal. No. 303 The New Mainstream

The Comics Journal. No. 303 The New Mainstream

Paperback (17 Jan 2019)

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Publisher's Synopsis

This issue of the renowned Comics Journal, the first in its new twice-a-year format, covers the 'new mainstream' in American comics - how the marketplace and overall perception of the medium has drastically shifted since the 'graphic novel boom' of the early 2000s and massive hits like Persepolis and Fun Home. It also includes sketchbook pages from French-born cartoonist Antoine Cosse, an introduction to homoerotic gag cartoons out of the U.S. Navy, cartoonist Ben Passmore's examination of the role art and comics, and much more.

About the Publisher

Fantagraphics Books

Fantagraphics Books

Fantagraphics Books has been a leading proponent of comics as a legitimate form of art and literature since it began publishing the critical trade magazine The Comics Journal in 1976. By the early 1980s, Fantagraphics found itself at the forefront of the burgeoning movement to establish comics as a medium as eloquent and expressive as the more established popular arts of film, literature, poetry, et al. Fantagraphics quickly established a reputation as an advocacy publisher that specialized in seeking out and publishing the kind of innovative work that traditional comics corporations who dealt almost exclusively in super-heroes and fantasy either didn?t know existed or wouldn?t touch: serious, dramatic, historical, journalistic, political, and satirical work by a new generation of alternative cartoonists as well as many artists who gained prominence as part of the seminal underground comix movement of the '60s. Fantagraphics has since gained an international reputation for its literate and audacious editorial standards and its exacting production values.

Book information

ISBN: 9781683961710
Publisher: Fantagraphics
Imprint: Fantagraphics Books
Pub date:
DEWEY: 741.56973
DEWEY edition: 23
Language: English
Number of pages: 160
Weight: 492g
Height: 250mm
Width: 247mm
Spine width: 10mm