00000nam a2200000 a 4500 Sabin, Roger aut Verfasser/-in Comics Adult comics An introduction Roger Sabin London; New York Routledge 1993 Adult comics are part of the cultural land-<br/>scape in a way that would habe been unimaginable a decade ago. In this first survey of its kind, Roger Sabin traces the history of comics for older readers from the end of the nineteenth century to the present. He takes in the pioneering pre-First World War titles, the underground comix of the 1960s and 1970s, fandom in the 1970s and 1980s, and the boon of the 1990s. Covering comics from the United States, Europe and Japan, Adult Comics addresses such issues as the graphic novel in context, cultural overspill and the role of women.<br/>By taking a broad sweep Sabin demonstrates that the widelyheld notion that comics grew up in the late 1980s is a mistaken one, largely invented by the media. 9780415044196 9780415044196 ger 0