Dreaming the Graphic Novel - 9781978805064

Dreaming the Graphic NovelThe Novelization of Comics\nAuthor(s): Paul Williams\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Rutgers University Press, United States\nImprint: Rutgers University Press\nISBN-13: 9781978805064, 978-1978805064\nSynopsis\nWinner of the Best Book Award in Comics History from the Grand Comics Database \nHonorable Mention, [tel] Research Society for American Periodicals Book Prize\n\n The term graphic novel was first coined in 1964, but it wouldnt be broadly used until the 1980s, when graphic novels such as Watchmen and Maus achieved commercial success and critical acclaim. What happened in the intervening years, after the graphic novel was conceptualized yet before it was widely recognized?\nDreaming the Graphic Novel examines how notions of the graphic novel began to coalesce in the 1970s, a time of great change for American comics, with declining sales of mainstream periodicals, the arrival of specialty comics stores, and (at least initially) a thriving underground comi.