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Literary Criticism Comics & Graphic Novels

The System of Comics

by (author) Thierry Groensteen

translated by Bart Beaty & Nick Nguyen

Publisher
University Press of Mississippi
Initial publish date
Feb 2009
Category
Comics & Graphic Novels, Popular Culture
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9781604732597
    Publish Date
    Feb 2009
    List Price
    $43.95

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An authoritative exploration of how the comics achieve meaning, form, and function

About the authors

Thierry Groensteen is a comics scholar and translator in Brussels, Belgium. He is author of La bande dessinée: Une littérature graphique and La construction de la cage, among other books.

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Bart Beaty is associate professor of communication and culture at the University of Calgary. His work has been published in the Comics Journal, International Journal of Comic Art, Canadian Journal of Communication, Essays in Canadian Writing, and Canadian Review of American Studies.

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Nick Nguyen is an archivist at Library and Archives Canada, in Ottawa, Ontario.

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