The essays collected in this volume were first presented at the international and interdisciplinary conference on the Graphic Novel hosted by the Institute for

Offers an examination and analysis of the contemporary graphic novel as literature. Specific attention is paid to the use of narrative genre in the graphic nove

Winner of the Best Book Award in Comics History from the Grand Comics Database Honorable Mention, 2019-2020 Research Society for American Periodicals Book Prize

In 1992, Maus, a graphic novel by Art Spiegelman, won the Pulitzer Prize. The genre has been growing ever since, appealing to the visual-oriented Gen-X and Gen-

A noted comics artist himself, Santiago García follows the history of the graphic novel from early nineteenth-century European sequential art, through the deve