Comics versus Graphic Novels
Comics and Comic Books are a form of sequential art where a story is portrayed though a use of image panels implying the elapse of time.
Oxford Art Online
- Dictionary of Art and the Encyclopedia of Esthetics (and two smaller dictionaries) searchable at once. The major beginning point for art history research.
Oxford Reference Online - Art and Architecture
- group of electronic dictionary sources published by Oxford U Press. Basically short definitions.
Rubenstein Library, Duke University. Guide to Comics and Graphic Novels in the Collection
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Surveys, Encyclopedias, and Dictionaries
Encyclopedia of comic books and graphic novels. 2 vols.
Santa Barbara, Calif. : Greenwood, c2010.
Lilly Library Reference PN6707 .E49 2010
The world encyclopedia of comics. 4 vols.
Philadelphia : Chelsea House, c1999.
Lilly Library Reference PN6710 .W6 1999
Dictionnaire encyclopédique des héros et auteurs de BD, [i.e., bande dessinée].
Filippini, Henri.
Grenoble : Glénat ; [S.l.] : Opera mundi, c1998.
Lilly Library Reference PN6707 .F56 1998
The Encyclopedia of American comics.
New York : Facts on File, c1990.
Lilly Library PN6725 .E64 1990
THEORY [subject heading:] Comic books, strips, etc. -- History and criticism
Critical approaches to comics : theories and methods.
New York : Routledge, 2012.
Lilly Library PN6710 .C75 2012
Comics and sequential art : principles and practices from the legendary cartoonist.
Eisner, Will.
New York : W.W. Norton, 2008.
Lilly and Perkins NC1764 .E47 2008
The art of comics : a philosophical approach.
Chichester, West Sussex ; Malden, MA : Wiley-Blackwell, 2012.
Lilly Library PN6710 .A86 2012
Comics & ideology.
New York : P. Lang, c2001.
Lilly Library PN6714 .C645 2001 c.1
Theme Books
Comic book nation : the transformation of youth culture in America.
Wright, Bradford W., 1968-Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2001.
Lilly PN6725 .W74 2001
Seal of approval : the history of the comics code.
Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, c1998.
Lilly Library PN6725 .N953 1998
Lilly PN6725-6757
"graphic novels"; German PN6757
NC1509
"German graphic satire"
NX650
"German visual satire"
