Danny Fingeroth Additional Author mixed material bibliography Rough Guides 2008

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The Rough Guide to Graphic Novels is the ultimate companion to the expanding world of the �literary comic book�. Written by comic industry insider Danny Fingeroth, it includes the medium's history, from sequential art in Egyptian tombs, through the superhero boom of the 1940s to the birth of the graphic novel movement and the latest online offerings. All you need to know about the best and rest with 60 must-read graphic novels, including the genre-defining Maus and A Contract with God, plus modern classics-in-the-making Fun Home and Alice in Sunderland. The guide profiles the movement's legends including Harvey Pekar, Chris Ware, Denis Kitchen and other amazing illustrators, writers and publishers who�ve helped win respect for this once marginalised art form. And everything else you need to know from �how to make a graphic novel� to film and television adaptations, manga, documentaries, conventions, books, magazines and websites. 9781843539933 C2O library Online catalog (BETA) K FIN Rou 3972 C2O library & collabtive (Comics & Graphic Novels) 6000 roughguidetoGraphicNovels.jpg 3861 2015-01-02 09:50:52 2015-01-02 09:50:52 machine generated