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Graphic Novels for Children and Young Adults

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Graphic Novels for Children and Young Adults: A Collection of Critical Essays is a 2017 collection of essays edited by Michelle Ann Abate and Gwen Athene Tarbox, published by University Press of Mississippi.

The essays are organized by topic and are grouped into respective sections. The sections are: "Graphic Novels as Comics Storytelling: Word and Image, Form and Genre" (one), "Hybrid Comics, Transmedial Storytelling, and Graphic Novels in Adaptation" (two), [1] "The Pedagogy of the Panel: Comics Storytelling in the Classroom" (three), "Representing Gender and Sexuality in the Comics Medium" (four), and "Drawing on Identity: History, Politics, Culture" five).[2]

Reception

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Joshua Roeder of Drew University wrote that the contents of the book were "exceptional", though he wished that there was "conversation about how comics studies define comics."[3]

References

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  • Roeder, Joshua (December 2018). "Graphic Novels for Children and Young Adults: A Collection of Critical Essays. Eds. Michelle, Ann Abate and Gwen, Athene Tarbox. University Press of Mississippi, 2017. 372 pp. $70.00 cloth". Journal of Popular Culture. 51 (6 Special Issue: Revisiting Adventure): 1569–1571. doi:10.1111/jpcu.12733. S2CID 165886026.
  • Romero, Erika (Summer 2018). "Graphic Novels for Children and Young Adults: A Collection of Critical Essays ed. by Michelle Ann Abate and Gwen Athene Tarbox (review)". Children's Literature Association Quarterly. 43 (2). Johns Hopkins University Press: 228–231. doi:10.1353/chq.2018.0029. S2CID 149717463.

Notes

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  1. ^ Romero, p. 229.
  2. ^ Romero, p. 230.
  3. ^ Roeder, p. 1571.

Further reading

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