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ARTISTRY OF NEIL GAIMAN FINDING LIGHT IN SHADOWS SC
(W) Joseph Michael Sommers (A) N/A (CA) N/A
Despite Neil Gaiman's incredible contributions to comics, his work remains underrepresented in sustained fashion in comics studies. The thirteen essays and two interviews with Gaiman and his frequent collaborator, artist P. Craig Russell, examine the work of Gaiman and his many illustrators. The essays discuss Gaiman's oeuvre regarding the qualities that make his work unique in his eschewing of typical categories, his proclamations to "make good art," and his own constant efforts to do so however the genres and audiences may slip into one another. The Artistry of Neil Gaiman forms a complicated portrait of a man who has always seemed fully assembled virtually from the start of his career, but only came to feel comfortable in his own voice far later in life.
BEN KATCHOR CONVERSATIONS SC
(W) Ian Gordon (A) Ben Katchor (CA) Ben Katchor
Career-spanning interviews with the creator of the contemporary American comic strip Julius Knipl, Real Estate Photographer and other works.
CANADIAN ALTERNATIVE CARTOONISTS COMICS & GNS HC
(W) Geoffrey Hayes (A) Geoffrey Hayes (CA) Bernie Mireault
This overview of the history of Canadian comics explores acclaimed as well as unfamiliar artists. Contributors look at the myriad ways that English-language, Francophone, indigenous, and queer Canadian comics and cartoonists pose alternatives to American comics, to dominant perceptions, even to gender and racial categories.
COMICS OF RUTU MODAN SC
(W) Kevin Haworth (A) Rutu Modan (CA) Rutu Modan
The first in-depth study of acclaimed work by a pioneer of Israeli comics. The Comics of Rutu Modan: War, Love, and Secrets conducts a close reading of her work and examines her role in creating a comics arts scene in Israel. Drawing upon archival research, Kevin Haworth traces the history of Israeli comics from its beginning as 1930s cheap children's stories, through the counterculture movement of the 1970s, to the burst of creativity that began in the 1990s and continues full force today.