Comics : a global history, 1968 to the present : 289 illustrations in color and black and white

CONTENTS PREFACE INTRODUCTION POSTWAR EUROPEAN AND BRITISH COMICS POSTWAR MANGA POSTWAR COMICS IN AMERICA THE 1960s AND THE BIRTH OF ADULT COMICS JAPANESE COMICS IN THE 1960s EUROPEAN COMICS, 1959-1968 AMERICAN COMICS TO 1968 PART ONE: 1968-1978 01. THE UNDERGROUNDS AND AFTER ROBERT CRUMB UNDERGROUND DIVERSITY THE END? THE POST-UNDERGROUND AND NONFICTION COMICS 02. AMERICAN MAINSTREAM COMICS DAWN OF THE 1970s: THE SUPERHERO TRAP BREAKING THE MOLD: NEAL ADAMS STRIVING FOR CREATIVE FREEDOM: KIRBY'S FREE REIN TOWARD THE GRAPHIC NOVEL: GIL KANE’S “PICTORIAL FICTION” 03. AMERICAN MAINSTREAM COMICS: A NEW GENERATION THE BRASH TRADITIONALISTS: OLD SOURCES, NEW ATTITUDES GROUND-LEVEL COMICS: WHERE MAINSTREAM AND UNDERGROUND MEET 04. MAINSTREAM MANGA SHONEN MANGA SEINEN MANGA SHOJO MANGA 05. GARO AND ALTERNATIVE MANGA GARO AND WATAKUSHI MANGA 06. TEZUKA 07. L’AGE ADULTE IN BANDE DESSINÉE AND OTHER EUROPEAN COMICS L’AGE ADULTE: PILOTE AND COMICS SCHOLARSHIP FANTASY AND FORMAL PLAY FUMETTI D'AUTORE THE ARGENTINIAN CONNECTION 08. THE NEW EUROPEAN PUBLISHING L’ECHO DES SAVANES MOEBIUS, SCIENCE FICTION AND SCREAMING METAL EUROPEAN AND BRITISH UNDERGROUNDS PEOPLE OF THE BOOK: FUTUROPOLIS COMICS AS HIGH ART: OUTLIERS AND HARBINGERS PART TWO: 1978-1990 09. A SUIVRE AND THE WILD INVASION BANDE DESSINÉE ROMANESQUE: LITERARY MODELS AND TRANCHES DE LA VIE CEREBRAL ABSURDISM AND WHIMSICAL NOIR NOUVEAU REALISME THE RETURN OF LIGNE CLAIRE: “LA FIN DE LA BANDE DESSINÉE ADULTE" 10. NEW TRENDS IN ITALIAN AND SPANISH COMICS ITALY: THE NEW ADULT FUMETTI SPAIN: LINEA CHUNGA AND NEOTEBEO 11. MAINSTREAM REBELS IN THE U.S. AND U.K. 2000 AD AND THE REBIRTH OF SCIENCE FICTION FROM CHRIS CLAREMONT TO FRANK MILLER: LONGER STORIES, DARKER THEMES THE BRITISH INVASION, FIRST WAVE 12. THE DAWN OF THE GRAPHIC NOVEL, THE RAW GENERATION AND PUNK COMIX DAWN OF THE GRAPHIC NOVEL RAW AND THE NEW ALTERNATIVE COMICS SUBVERSIVE SELF-PUBLISHERS AND NEWAVE MINI COMIX ALTERNATIVE NEWSPAPER COMICS 13. THE GROWTH OF REALISM IN MANGA DYSTOPIAN STORIES, REALISTIC IMAGERY TABOO LOVE, ADULT ROMANCE AND THE BIRTH OF JOSEI ALTERNATIVE MANGA: GARO 1978-1990 PART THREE: 1990 ONWARD 14. AMERICAN MAINSTREAM COMICS IN THE 1990s THE SANDMAN AND THE BIRTH OF VERTIGO ALTERNATIVE INTERPRETS MAINSTREAM SUPERSTAR ARTISTS AND THE SPECULATOR BOOM CHALLENGERS FOR THE MAINSTREAM: DARK HORSE AND IMAGE DECOMPRESSED COMICS, STYLIZED NOSTALGIA AND CINEMATIC ASPIRATIONS 15. AMERICAN ALTERNATIVE COMICS OF THE 1990s SELF-PUBLISHING AND THE BLACK-AND-WHITE BOOM NINETIES ALTERNATIVES: AUTOBIOGRAPHY AND MELANCHOLY NOSTALGIA FORT THUNDER, HIGHWATER BOOKS AND THE COMIC AS ART OBJECT 16. EUROPEAN COMICS IN THE 1990s STRAPAZIN AND THE GERMAN-SWISS AVANT GARDE MAINSTREAM BANDE DESSINÉE: BRIGHT POINTS IN A MONOTONE LANDSCAPE ALTERNATIVE AND AVANT-GARDE BANDE DESSINÉE: L’ASSOCIATION SIMILAR VENTURES ACROSS THE CONTINENT 17. THE QUEST FOR “RESPECTABLE” MANGA AN INCREASED CREATIVE ROLE FOR EDITORS RESURGENCE AND REINVENTION IN FLAGGING GENRES THE LAST DAYS OF GARO 18. COMICS IN THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY: AN INTERNATIONAL ART FORM COMMERCIAL ALTERNATIVE AND INTERNATIONAL CROSS-POLLINATION A BRIEF HISTORY OF KOREAN MANHWA LA NOUVELLE BANDE DESSINÉE COCONINO PRESS AND ITALIAN ALTERNATIVE COMICS CARTOONY MINIMALISM AND THE “BIG HEAD” REVIVAL 19. NEW FORMS, NEW TECHNOLOGIES, NEW AUDIENCES THE DECLINE OF SERIALIZATION AND BIRTH OF THE GRAPHIC NOVEL MOVEMENT TRUE (AND NEARLY TRUE) STORIES A GOLDEN AGE OF YOUNG-ADULT GRAPHIC NOVELS DEMOCRATIZED DISTRIBUTION: WEBCOMICS NOTES BIBLIOGRAPHY INDEX OF CREATIVES INDEX OF COMICS IMAGE CREDITS THANKS Comics, manga, bandes dessinees, fumetti, tebeo, historietas... no matter the name, they have been a powerful medium across four continents for decades. This is the history of comics around the world from the late 1960s to the dawn of the 21st century. Comics is a richly illustrated narrative of extraordinary scope. Examples from all over the world include everything from Crumb and Kirby to RAW; from Metal Hurlant to Marjane Satrapi to nouvelle manga; from both the American mainstream and underground to the evolving and influential British scene. The images here are bright and colorful, dark and brooding, arresting and pleasant, all at the same time. An unprecedented collection includes around 260 expertly chosen illustrations, many reproduced in full-page format for more sophisticated analysis.The authors, two uniquely positioned and knowledgeable authorities, are the first to write a broadly comprehensive history of this most accessible, democratic, and occasionally subversive modern popular art form, displaying an intimate familiarity with schools and styles, writers, artists, and companies across countries and generations. In showing us both post-apocalyptic dreamscapes and portraits of the everyday, Comics looks at this thirty-plus year period through a very unique lens. This is the first global history of comics around the world from the late 1960s to the present day. Comics, manga, bandes dessinées, fumetti, tebeo, historietas, no matter the name, they have been a powerful medium across four continents for decades. This is the history of comics around the world from the late 1960s to the dawn of the 21st century. This is a richly illustrated narrative of extraordinary scope. Examples from all over the world include everything from Crumb and Kirby to RAW; from Metal Hurlant to Marjane Satrapi to nouvelle manga; from both the American mainstream and underground to the evolving and influential British scene. The images here are bright and colorful, dark and brooding, arresting and pleasant, all at the same time. The authors are the first to write a broadly comprehensive history of this most accessible, democratic, and occasionally subversive modern popular art form, displaying an intimate familiarity with schools and styles, writers, artists, and companies across countries and generations. In showing us both post-apocalyptic dreamscapes and portraits of the everyday, this book looks at this thirty-plus year period through a very unique lens. Part 1. 1968-1978. The undergrounds and after American mainstream comics American mainstream comics : a new generation Mainstream manga Garo and alternative manga Tezuka L'age adulte in Bande dessinée and other European comics The new European publishing Part 2. 1978-1990. À suivre and the wild invasion New trends in Italian and Spanish comics Mainstream rebels in the U.S. and U.K. The dawn of the graphic novel, the Raw generation and punk comix The growth of realism in manga Part 3. 1990 onward. American mainstream comics in the 1990s American alternative comics of the 1990s European comics in the 1990s The quest for "respectable" manga Comics in the twenty-first century : an international art form New forms, new technologies, new audiences. A history of comics around the world from the late 1960s to the present day. Comics, manga, bandes dessinées, fumetti, tebeo, historietas ... no matter the name, they have been a powerful medium across four continents for decades. Examples from all over the world include everything from Crumb and Kirby to RAW; from Metal Hurlant to Marjane Satrapi to nouvelle manga; from both the American mainstream and underground to the evolving and influential British scene. The images here are bright and colorful, dark and brooding, arresting and pleasant, all at the same time. An unprecedented collection includes around 260 illustrations, many reproduced in full-page format for more sophisticated analysis