{"product_id":"singular-sensations-a-cultural-history-of-one-panel-comics-in-the-united-states-paperback-softback-9781978840683","title":"Singular Sensations; A Cultural History of One-Panel Comics in the United States (Paperback \/ softback) 9781978840683","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eSingular Sensations\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eA Cultural History of One-Panel Comics in the United States\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eMichelle Ann Abate (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781978840683\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 13 September 2024\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e254 pages, 18 color and 40 B-W images\u003cbr\u003e23.5 x 15.6 x 1.8 cm, 0.367 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e“With her trademark pitch-perfect precision and profound purview, Abate rips the curtains back to show the magic behind single-panel comic storytelling. With breathtaking historical scope and dazzling analyses of exemplars, Abate gifts us with generative concepts and vital tools that crack wide open understanding of how story works in one gestaltic gulp. \u003ci\u003eSingular Sensations\u003c\/i\u003e is the paradigm shift in Comics Studies we’ve long awaited!” - Frederick Luis Aldama (author of the Eisner–award winning Latinx Superheroes in Mainstream Comics)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eWhat do\u003ci\u003e The Family Circus\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eZiggy\u003c\/i\u003e, and\u003ci\u003e The Far Side\u003c\/i\u003e have in common? They are all single-panel comics, a seemingly simple form that cartoonists have used in vastly different ways. \u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eSingular Sensations\u003c\/i\u003e is the first book-length critical study to examine this important but long-neglected mode of cartoon art. Michelle Ann Abate provides an overview of how the American single-panel comic evolved, starting with Thomas Nast’s political cartoons and R.F. Outcault’s groundbreaking Yellow Kid series in the nineteenth century. In subsequent chapters, she explores everything from wry \u003ci\u003eNew Yorker \u003c\/i\u003ecartoons to zany twenty-first-century comics like \u003ci\u003eBizarro\u003c\/i\u003e. Offering an important corrective to the canonical definition of comics as “sequential art,” Abate reveals the complexity, artistry, and influence of the single-panel art form. \u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e Engaging with a wide range of historical time periods, sociopolitical subjects, and aesthetic styles, \u003ci\u003eSingular Sensations\u003c\/i\u003e demonstrates how comics as we know and love them would not be the same without single-panel titles. Abate’s book brings the single-panel comic out of the margins and into the foreground.  \u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Rutgers University Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52702499242264,"sku":"9781978840683","price":23.66,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/singular-sensations-a-cultural-history-of-one-panel-comics-in-the-united-states-paperback-softback-9781978840683","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}