<P>In a society where a comic equates with knockabout amusement for children, the sudden pre-eminence of adult comics, on everything from political satire to erotic fantasy, has predictably attracted an enormous amount of attention.</P><P>Adult comics are part of the cultural landscape in a way that would have been unimaginable a decade ago. In this first survey of its kind, Roger Sabin traces the history of comics for older readers from the end of the nineteenth century to the present. He takes in the pioneering titles pre-First World War, the underground ''comix'' of the 1960s and 1970s, ''fandom'' in the 1970s and 1980s, and the boom of the 1980s and 1990s (including ''graphic novels'' and Viz.). Covering comics from the United States, Europe and Japan, <EM>Adult Comics</EM> addresses such issues as the graphic novel in context, cultural overspill and the role of women.</P><P>By taking a broad sweep, Sabin demonstrates that the widely-held notion that comics ''grew up'' in the late
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Marie Duval: maverick Victorian cartoonist offers the first critical appraisal of the work of Marie Duval 1847-1890), one of the most unusual, pioneering and visionary cartoonists of the later nineteenth century, focusing on new types of cultural work...
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