The Cambridge History of the Graphic Novel

The Cambridge History of the Graphic Novel provides the complete history of the graphic novel from its origins in the nineteenth century to its rise and startling success in the twentieth and twenty-first century. It includes original discussion on the current state of the graphic novel and analyzes how American, European, Middle Eastern, and Japanese renditions have shaped the field. Thirty-five leading scholars and historians unpack both forgotten trajectories as well as the famous key episodes, and explain how comics transitioned from being marketed as children's entertainment. Essays address the masters of the form, including Art Spiegelman, Alan Moore, and Marjane Satrapi, and reflect on their publishing history as well as their social and political effects. This ambitious history offers an extensive, detailed and expansive scholarly account of the graphic novel, and will be a key resource for scholars and students.

1. Introduction Jan Baetens, Hugo Frey and Stephen E. Tabachnick; Part I: 2. The origins of adult graphic narratives: graphic literature and the novel, from Laurence Sterne to Gustave Doré (1760–1851) Denis Mellier; 3. Long-length serials in the Golden Age of comic strips: production and reception Daniel Stein and Lukas Etter; 4. Long length wordless books: Frans Masereel, Milt Gross, Lynd Ward, and beyond Barbara Postema; 5. The postwar 'drawn novel' Jan Baetens; 6. Harvey Kurtzman and the influence of Mad magazine Dan Byrne-Smith; 7. When realism met romance: the negative zone of Marvel's Silver Age Christopher Pizzino; 8. Beat-era literature and the graphic novel Hugo Frey; 9. Henry Darger, comics and the graphic novel: contexts and appropriations Gavin Parkinson; 10. Underground comix and the invention of autobiography, history and reportage Jean-Paul Gabilliet; 11. Jules Feiffer – creative and intellectual ally of the graphic novel (and of other critical/editorial voices) Paul Williams; Part II: 12. Will Eisner and the making of a contract with God Michael A. Chaney; 13. Art Spiegelman's autobiographical practice from Maus to MetaMaus Erin McGlothlin; 14. Alan Moore: the making of a graphic novelist Christopher Murray; 15. No future: punk and the underground graphic novel Benjamin Noys; 16. European literary and genre fiction: the (À Suivre) magazine and the 'adventure' and 'science fiction' traditions (Pratt, Tardi, Moebius) Fabrice Leroy; 17. 'A word to you feminist women': the parallel legacies of feminism and underground comics Susan Kirtley; 18. The secret origins of LBGTQ graphic novels Justin Hall; 19. US creators of color and the post-underground graphic narrative renaissance Frederick Luis Aldama; 20. The influence of Manga on the graphic novel Simon Grennan; 21. Sandman, the ephemeral, and the permanent Joe Sutliff Sanders; 22. 'To elevate every experience into something artistic and exciting': Daniel Clowes's Ghost World Ken Parille; 23. From an informed fan culture to an academic field Randy Duncan and Matthew J. Smith; Part III. 24. Joe Sacco, graphic novelist as political journalist Ann Miller; 25. The discovery of Marjane Satrapi and the translation of works from and about the Middle East Chris Reyns and Houssem Lazreg; 26. Chris Oliveros, drawn and quarterly, and the expanded definition of the graphic novel Bart Beaty; 27. The Jewish graphic novel Stephen E. Tabachnick; 28. Crime genre fiction in the graphic novel Andrew J. Kunka; 29. Genre fiction in the graphic novel: the case of science fiction Karin Kukkonen; 30. The superhero graphic novel Darren Harris-Fain; 31. Reinvention of the form: Chris Ware and experimentalism after Raw Martha Kuhlman; 32. Convergence cultures: modern and contemporary poetry and the graphic novel Daniel Morris; 33. Cinema's discovery of the graphic novel: mainstream and independent adaptation Matthew P. McAllister and Stephanie Orme; 34. The novel and the graphic novel Brannon Costello; 35. E-graphic novels Benoît Crucifix and Björn-Olav Dozo; 36. World literature David M. Ball; Bibliography; Index.

Jan Baetens is the co-author, with Hugo Frey, of The Graphic Novel. An Introduction (Cambridge, 2015). He has written various books (in French) on comics and graphic novels, among which is Hergé écrivain (2006). A specialist of the photo novel and the film photo novel, he has also widely published on film and literature (an English translation of his book Novelization is forthcoming). He is the founding editor of the journal Image and Narrative, which is one of the leading journals in the field.
Hugo Frey is the co-author, with Jan Baetens, of The Graphic Novel. An Introduction (Cambridge, 2015). He is the author of two original studies of the history of modern French cinema, Louis Malle (2004) and Nationalism and the Cinema in France (2014). He is Editor for the series European Comics and Graphic Novels and he has also contributed to the series on Science Fiction, Frontiers of the Imagination. At the University of Chichester, he is Chair in Cultural and Visual History and serves as Head of Department of English, Creative Writing, History and Politics. He has also contributed as an Inspirational Lecturer for The Prince's Teaching Institute (PTI), London.
Stephen E. Tabachnick has taught the graphic novel at the university level for more than twenty years, and is the editor of Teaching the Graphic Novel (2009); (co-editor Esther Saltzman) Drawn from the Classics: Graphic Adaptations of Literary Texts (2015); The Cambridge Companion to the Graphic Novel (Cambridge, 2017); and author of The Quest for Jewish Belief and Identity in the Graphic Novel (2014). He has written or edited several books about Charles M. Doughty, T. E. Lawrence, Harold Pinter, and Rex Warner.