About this deck
Comics — sequential art with text and image working together — is among the youngest narrative forms (200 years vs. millennia for novels) and among the most expansive in technique. The medium ranges from Sunday-paper strips to literary graphic novels in the Pulitzer-and-MacArthur firmament. Key sections include: Co mics.; Opening Sequential art.; Chapter I The first comics.; Chapter II Outcault to Herriman.; Chapter III The 1930s emergence.; Chapter IV Pre-Code horror.; Chapter V The graphic novel concept.; Chapter VI R. Crumb and the 1960s.; Chapter VII Moore and Gibbons, 1986.; Chapter VIII Spiegelman's masterpiece..