Comic Art of Europe: An International, Comprehensive Bibliography: 5 (Bibliographies and Indexes in Popular Culture) - Hardcover

"Lent is a prolific writer of books and articles on mass communication and a leading proponent of comic art scholarship. With these three compilations, he offers an enormous contribution to that scholarship. These works reflect long years of independent, painstaking compilation. What Lent has given us, is marvelous, and as comic art continues to be recognized and analyzed by various disciplines, these volumes should prove indispensable. All these titles are highly recommended for all academic collections."-Choice ..."Contain[s] a tremendous amount of information and are of immense value to serious comics scholars....[a] necessary purchase for collections specializing in popular culture, comics, and mass media."-BARBA 95 "The bibliography of European comic art has taken a great leap forward with this book. This is a big book, probably bigger than any of us expected, and an excellent book recommended to all research libraries and to all scholars of European comic art, graphic art, and popular culture. Speaking as a comics librarian, it is clear to me that this comprehensive bibliography and its companions will have a day-to-day impact."-Inks - Cartoon and Comic Art Studies ..."Contain s a tremendous amount of information and are of immense value to serious comics scholars.... a necessary purchase for collections specializing in popular culture, comics, and mass media."-BARBA 95 ?Now in this remarkable full bibliography Lent has catalogued for all of us just how widespread [comic art] is....Everybody needs access to this companion.?-Journal of American Culture ?...Contain[s] a tremendous amount of information and are of immense value to serious comics scholars....[a] necessary purchase for collections specializing in popular culture, comics, and mass media.?-BARBA 95 ?The bibliography of European comic art has taken a great leap forward with this book. This is a big book, probably bigger than any of us expected, and an excellent book recommended to all research libraries and to all scholars of European comic art, graphic art, and popular culture. Speaking as a comics librarian, it is clear to me that this comprehensive bibliography and its companions will have a day-to-day impact.?-Inks - Cartoon and Comic Art Studies ?Lent is a prolific writer of books and articles on mass communication and a leading proponent of comic art scholarship. With these three compilations, he offers an enormous contribution to that scholarship. These works reflect long years of independent, painstaking compilation. What Lent has given us, is marvelous, and as comic art continues to be recognized and analyzed by various disciplines, these volumes should prove indispensable. All these titles are highly recommended for all academic collections.?-Choice "Now in this remarkable full bibliography Lent has catalogued for all of us just how widespread [comic art] is....Everybody needs access to this companion."-Journal of American Culture .,."Contain[s] a tremendous amount of information and are of immense value to serious comics scholars....[a] necessary purchase for collections specializing in popular culture, comics, and mass media."-BARBA 95

Encompassing 29 countries of Europe, this detailed bibliography covers the field of comic art. European academicians and journalists began the study of comic art earlier than their counterparts in other areas of the world. This volume reflects those efforts as well as the substantial growth of contemporary writings. Art Historian David Kunzle introduces the work, thus acknowledging the importance of Europe's lead in the scholarship of comic art in all its forms. This is one of four volumes dealing with various regions of the world in an attempt for the first time to present a comprehensive, international study of comic art scholarship. Chapters are country(ies) specific, except for the first, which includes continental, regional, and comparative perspectives. A feature of chapter one is its resources component, including an annotated directory of 81 comic art-related periodicals. Because of an unusually large number of sources, the chapters on Belgium, France, Germany, Great Britain, and Italy were expanded and subcategorised beyond historical and contemporary perspectives and specific comic art forms. Thus, many citations appear under categories of children's press, festivals, humor periodicals, anthologies, art and aesthetics, cinema, education and culture, effects debate, genres, industry, language and semiotics, legal aspects, literature, psychology, religion, socio-cultural aspects, and technical aspects. Additionally, more than 250 individual cartoonists and over 110 characters and titles were given separate categories. Art Historian David Kunzle, who has written the definitive histories of comic art precursors, wrote a personalized foreword. A preface delineating the unique characteristics of the book and complete indices conveniently divided by authors, cartoonists, characters and titles, periodicals, and subjects are provided.