On the Graphic Novel
On the Graphic Novel by Santiago García, published by University Press of Mississippi on June 10, 2015, is a comprehensive exploration of the graphic novel’s evolution. This 375-page work delves into the history of graphic storytelling, tracing its roots from early nineteenth-century European sequential art to the rise of comic books in the twentieth century. García examines the aesthetic and entrepreneurial innovations that have shaped the graphic novel’s global emergence, providing insights into its cultural significance as a popular medium.
Readers will find a thorough analysis of the formal components of graphic art alongside a discussion of its cultural positioning. García addresses the historical perception of comics, often seen as children’s entertainment or morally questionable, and highlights their transformation into a sophisticated art form. By drawing on examples from various countries, including Spain, France, Germany, and Japan, the book illustrates how the graphic novel has become a new model for narrative production, empowering creators and challenging societal biases against the medium.
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A noted comics artist himself, Santiago García follows the history of the graphic novel from early nineteenth-century European sequential art, through the development of newspaper strips in the United States, to the development of the twentieth-century comic book and its subsequent crisis. He considers the aesthetic and entrepreneurial innovations that established the conditions for the rise of the graphic novel all over the world.
García not only treats the formal components of the art, but also examines the cultural position of comics in various formats as a popular medium. Typically associated with children, often viewed as unedifying and even at times as a threat to moral character, comics art has come a long way. With such examples from around the world as Spain, France, Germany, and Japan, García illustrates how the graphic novel, with its increasingly global and aesthetically sophisticated profile, represents a new model for graphic narrative production that empowers authors and challenges longstanding social prejudices against comics and what they can achieve.
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