Christopher Pizzino Arresting Development sku-53719034

Christopher Pizzino's hardcover Arresting Development: Comics at the Boundaries of Literature is part of the World Comics and Graphic Nonfiction Series and is listed under Collectible Comics N.E. Pizzino challenges accounts that describe the graphic novel as having matured from pulp to literature.

He argues that comics' history of censorship and marginalization still affects readers and authors, who contend with questions of literary status. Case studies examine Frank Miller's Batman: The Dark Knight Returns, Alison Bechdel's Fun Home, Charles Burns's Black Hole and Gilbert Hernandez's Love and Rockets.

The book considers how divisions between high and low culture, art and pulp, and different ways of reading affect judgments about literature and its readers. SKU: sku-53719034.