Literary Criticism Comics & Graphic Novels
The System of Comics
- Publisher
- University Press of Mississippi
- Initial publish date
- Feb 2009
- Category
- Comics & Graphic Novels, Popular Culture
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9781604732597
- Publish Date
- Feb 2009
- List Price
- $43.95
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Description
An authoritative exploration of how the comics achieve meaning, form, and function
About the authors
Thierry Groensteen is a comics scholar and translator in Brussels, Belgium. He is author of La bande dessinée: Une littérature graphique and La construction de la cage, among other books.
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Bart Beaty is associate professor of communication and culture at the University of Calgary. His work has been published in the Comics Journal, International Journal of Comic Art, Canadian Journal of Communication, Essays in Canadian Writing, and Canadian Review of American Studies.
Nick Nguyen is an archivist at Library and Archives Canada, in Ottawa, Ontario.