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Where did all the excitement come from? Stephen Weiner, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003ea comics historian and children's literature specialist, provides the answers in this \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003egroundbreaking book - the first history of graphic novels.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eFrom the agonising Holocaust vision of Art Spiegelman's \u003cem\u003eMaus\u003c\/em\u003e to the teenage angst\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eof Dan Clowes' \u003cem\u003eGhost World\u003c\/em\u003e, this book takes you into the heart of the graphic novel\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003erevolution. Weiner tells the whole history of this relatively \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003enew medium - from the first modern urban autobiographical graphic novel, Will E\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eisner's \u003cem\u003eA Contract with God\u003c\/em\u003e, to the hip indie comics of the Hernandez Bros' \u003cem\u003eLove and \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cem\u003eRockets\u003c\/em\u003e, the dark mysteries of Neil Gaiman's \u003cem\u003eSandman\u003c\/em\u003e, and the postmodern super-\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eheroics of Frank Miller's \u003cem\u003eBatman: The Dark Knight.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e \u003cstrong\u003eContents\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e1. The First Comics: Americans Embrace a New Art Form\u003cbr\u003e2. The 1950s: The Shadow of McCarthyism\u003cbr\u003e3. The 1960s: Troubled Heroes for Troubled Times\u003cbr\u003e4. The Comic Book Store: Fans Find a Home\u003cbr\u003e5. The Graphic Novel: Comics Take Themselves Seriously \u003cbr\u003e6. Trade Publishers and Comics: An Uneasy Alliance\u003cbr\u003e7. Opening the Gates: The Comics Field Grows\u003cbr\u003e8. The New Heroes: Would You Let this Man Marry Your Sister?\u003cbr\u003e9. \u003cem\u003eMaus\u003c\/em\u003e: Surviving and Thriving\u003cbr\u003e10. \u003cem\u003eThe Sandman\u003c\/em\u003e: A New Mythology\u003cbr\u003e11. Bone Wars: The Paradigm Shifts into High Gear\u003cbr\u003e12. \u003cem\u003eUnderstanding Comics\u003c\/em\u003e: The Dream of a Common Language \u003cbr\u003e13. A Message in a Bottle: Notes from the Underground\u003cbr\u003e14. A New Millennium For Comics\u003cbr\u003e15. 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