Singular Sensations
eBook - ePub

Singular Sensations

A Cultural History of One-Panel Comics in the United States

  1. 254 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Singular Sensations

A Cultural History of One-Panel Comics in the United States

About this book

Shortlisted for the 2024 Eisner Award for Best Academic/Scholarly Book

What do The Family Circus, Ziggy, and The Far Side have in common? They are all single-panel comics, a seemingly simple form that cartoonists have used in vastly different ways. 
 
Singular Sensations 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 New Yorker cartoons to zany twenty-first-century comics like Bizarro. 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. 
 
Engaging with a wide range of historical time periods, sociopolitical subjects, and aesthetic styles, Singular Sensations 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.  

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright Page
  4. Contents
  5. Preface and Acknowledgments
  6. Introduction: All by Myself: Single-Panel Comics and the Question of Genre
  7. 1 “Those Damned Pictures”: Thomas Nast and the Rise of the Single-Panel Comic as a Political Cartoon
  8. 2 Freeze Frame: R. F. Outcault’s The Yellow Kid and the Tableau Vivant
  9. 3 “The New Yorker’s Most Influential Cartoonist”: Peter Arno and the Extraordinary Ordinary of Everyday Life
  10. 4 Not Jokester, but Prankster: Little Lulu’s Silent Social Commentary
  11. 5 Civil/Rights: Jackie Ormes’s Patty-Jo ’n’ Ginger, Black Girlhood, and the Black Bourgeoisie
  12. 6 Outside the Circle of Influence: The Family Circus, Diegetic Space, and Comics Narratology
  13. 7 Ziggy Was Here: Tom Wilson’s Newspaper Series, World War II, and the Role of Graffiti in Comics
  14. 8 “His People Are Grotesque”: The Far Side and the Aesthetics of Ugliness
  15. Epilogue: Reimagine, Recombine, Recreate: Dan Piraro’s Bizarro, Mash-Ups, and the Comics of Remix Culture
  16. Notes
  17. Works Cited
  18. Index
  19. About the Author