Comic Art of Europe

Encompassing 29 countries of Europe this detailed bibliography covers the field of comic art. European academicians and journalists began the study of comic art earlier than their counterparts in other areas of the world. This volume reflects those efforts as well as the substantial growth of contemporary writings. Art Historian David Kunzle introduces the work thus acknowledging the importance of Europe''s lead in the scholarship of comic art in all its forms. This is one of four volumes dealing with various regions of the world in an attempt for the first time to present a comprehensive international study of comic art scholarship.Chapters are country(ies) specific except for the first which includes continental regional and comparative perspectives. A feature of chapter one is its resources component including an annotated directory of 81 comic art-related periodicals. Because of an unusually large number of sources the chapters on Belgium France Germany Great Britain and Italy were expanded and subcategorised beyond historical and contemporary perspectives and specific comic art forms. Thus many citations appear under categories of children''s press festivals humor periodicals anthologies art and aesthetics cinema education and culture effects debate genres industry language and semiotics legal aspects literature psychology religion socio-cultural aspects and technical aspects. Additionally more than 250 individual cartoonists and over 110 characters and titles were given separate categories. Art Historian David Kunzle who has written the definitive histories of comic art precursors wrote a personalized foreword. A preface delineating the unique characteristics of the book and complete indices conveniently divided by authors cartoonists characters and titles periodicals and subjects are provided.