Comics: A Global History, 1968 to the Present

CONTENTS
PREFACE
INTRODUCTION
	POSTWAR EUROPEAN AND BRITISH COMICS
	POSTWAR MANGA
	POSTWAR COMICS IN AMERICA
	THE 1960s AND THE BIRTH OF ADULT COMICS
	JAPANESE COMICS IN THE 1960s
	EUROPEAN COMICS, 1959-1968
	AMERICAN COMICS TO 1968
PART ONE: 1968-1978
	01. THE UNDERGROUNDS AND AFTER
		ROBERT CRUMB
		UNDERGROUND DIVERSITY
		THE END?
		THE POST-UNDERGROUND AND NONFICTION COMICS
	02. AMERICAN MAINSTREAM COMICS
		DAWN OF THE 1970s: THE SUPERHERO TRAP
		BREAKING THE MOLD: NEAL ADAMS
		STRIVING FOR CREATIVE FREEDOM: KIRBY\'S FREE REIN
		TOWARD THE GRAPHIC NOVEL: GIL KANE’S “PICTORIAL FICTION”
	03. AMERICAN MAINSTREAM COMICS: A NEW GENERATION
		THE BRASH TRADITIONALISTS: OLD SOURCES, NEW ATTITUDES
		GROUND-LEVEL COMICS: WHERE MAINSTREAM AND UNDERGROUND MEET
	04. MAINSTREAM MANGA
		SHONEN MANGA
		SEINEN MANGA
		SHOJO MANGA
	05. GARO AND ALTERNATIVE MANGA
		GARO AND WATAKUSHI MANGA
	06. TEZUKA
	07. L’AGE ADULTE IN BANDE DESSINÉE AND OTHER EUROPEAN COMICS
		L’AGE ADULTE: PILOTE AND COMICS SCHOLARSHIP
		FANTASY AND FORMAL PLAY
		FUMETTI D\'AUTORE
		THE ARGENTINIAN CONNECTION
	08. THE NEW EUROPEAN PUBLISHING
		L’ECHO DES SAVANES
		MOEBIUS, SCIENCE FICTION AND SCREAMING METAL
		EUROPEAN AND BRITISH UNDERGROUNDS
		PEOPLE OF THE BOOK: FUTUROPOLIS
		COMICS AS HIGH ART: OUTLIERS AND HARBINGERS
PART TWO: 1978-1990
	09. A SUIVRE AND THE WILD INVASION
		BANDE DESSINÉE ROMANESQUE: LITERARY MODELS AND TRANCHES DE LA VIE
		CEREBRAL ABSURDISM AND WHIMSICAL NOIR
		NOUVEAU REALISME
		THE RETURN OF LIGNE CLAIRE: “LA FIN DE LA BANDE DESSINÉE ADULTE\"
	10. NEW TRENDS IN ITALIAN AND SPANISH COMICS
		ITALY: THE NEW ADULT FUMETTI
		SPAIN: LINEA CHUNGA AND NEOTEBEO
	11. MAINSTREAM REBELS IN THE U.S. AND U.K.
		2000 AD AND THE REBIRTH OF SCIENCE FICTION
		FROM CHRIS CLAREMONT TO FRANK MILLER: LONGER STORIES, DARKER THEMES
		THE BRITISH INVASION, FIRST WAVE
	12. THE DAWN OF THE GRAPHIC NOVEL, THE RAW GENERATION AND PUNK COMIX
		DAWN OF THE GRAPHIC NOVEL
		RAW AND THE NEW ALTERNATIVE COMICS
		SUBVERSIVE SELF-PUBLISHERS AND NEWAVE MINI COMIX
		ALTERNATIVE NEWSPAPER COMICS
	13. THE GROWTH OF REALISM IN MANGA
		DYSTOPIAN STORIES, REALISTIC IMAGERY
		TABOO LOVE, ADULT ROMANCE AND THE BIRTH OF JOSEI
		ALTERNATIVE MANGA: GARO 1978-1990
PART THREE: 1990 ONWARD
	14. AMERICAN MAINSTREAM COMICS IN THE 1990s
		THE SANDMAN AND THE BIRTH OF VERTIGO
		ALTERNATIVE INTERPRETS MAINSTREAM
		SUPERSTAR ARTISTS AND THE SPECULATOR BOOM
		CHALLENGERS FOR THE MAINSTREAM: DARK HORSE AND IMAGE
		DECOMPRESSED COMICS, STYLIZED NOSTALGIA AND CINEMATIC ASPIRATIONS
	15. AMERICAN ALTERNATIVE COMICS OF THE 1990s
		SELF-PUBLISHING AND THE BLACK-AND-WHITE BOOM
		NINETIES ALTERNATIVES: AUTOBIOGRAPHY AND MELANCHOLY NOSTALGIA
		FORT THUNDER, HIGHWATER BOOKS AND THE COMIC AS ART OBJECT
	16. EUROPEAN COMICS IN THE 1990s
		STRAPAZIN AND THE GERMAN-SWISS AVANT GARDE
		MAINSTREAM BANDE DESSINÉE: BRIGHT POINTS IN A MONOTONE LANDSCAPE
		ALTERNATIVE AND AVANT-GARDE BANDE DESSINÉE: L’ASSOCIATION
		SIMILAR VENTURES ACROSS THE CONTINENT
	17. THE QUEST FOR “RESPECTABLE” MANGA
		AN INCREASED CREATIVE ROLE FOR EDITORS
		RESURGENCE AND REINVENTION IN FLAGGING GENRES
		THE LAST DAYS OF GARO
	18. COMICS IN THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY: AN INTERNATIONAL ART FORM
		COMMERCIAL ALTERNATIVE AND INTERNATIONAL CROSS-POLLINATION
		A BRIEF HISTORY OF KOREAN MANHWA
		LA NOUVELLE BANDE DESSINÉE
		COCONINO PRESS AND ITALIAN ALTERNATIVE COMICS
		CARTOONY MINIMALISM AND THE “BIG HEAD” REVIVAL
	19. NEW FORMS, NEW TECHNOLOGIES, NEW AUDIENCES
		THE DECLINE OF SERIALIZATION AND BIRTH OF THE GRAPHIC NOVEL MOVEMENT
		TRUE (AND NEARLY TRUE) STORIES
		A GOLDEN AGE OF YOUNG-ADULT GRAPHIC NOVELS
		DEMOCRATIZED DISTRIBUTION: WEBCOMICS
NOTES
BIBLIOGRAPHY
INDEX OF CREATIVES
INDEX OF COMICS
IMAGE CREDITS
THANKS