The Expanding Art of Comics

In The Expanding Art of Comics: Ten Modern Masterpieces , prominent scholar Thierry Groensteen offers a distinct perspective on important evolutions in comics since the 1960s through close readings of ten seminal works. He covers over half a century of comics production, sampling a single work from the sixties ( Ballad of the Salt Sea by Hugo Pratt), seventies ( The Airtight Garage of Jerry Cornelius by Moebius), eighties ( Watchmen by Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons), and nineties ( Epileptic by Da