About the Author

Thierry Groensteen, Brussels, Belgium, is a prominent comics scholar and author of numerous books including The System of Comics and Comics and Narration, both published by University Press of Mississippi. He has held a number of prestigious positions over the years: editor of Les Cahiers de la bande Dessinée; director of the comics museum housed in the Cité international de la bande dessinée et de l'image in Angoulême, where he is now a project director and curator; editor in chief of 9ème Art; founder and editor of a comics collection for Actes Sud and lecturer on the comics masters course at the École européenne supérieure de l'image in Angoulême.

Ann Miller, Oxford, United Kingdom, is University Fellow in French at the University of Leicester. She is joint editor of European Comic Art, author of Reading Bande Dessinée: Critical Approaches to French-language Comic Strip, and coeditor of Textual Visual Selves: Photography, Film and Comic Art in French Autobiography and The French Comics Theory Reader.

Reviews

Thierry Groensteen brings the eyes of a fierce critic to ten comics that should be on every reader's shelves. As one of the most acclaimed scholars and theorists of the ninth art, Groensteen in this exciting new translation turns his attention to the evolution of the form through the close reading of some of its most celebrated works: Watchmen, Epileptic, Fun Home, and more. Insightful, eclectic, and wide-ranging, Groensteen demonstrates once again why he is one of the most important comics scholars in the world.--Bart Beaty, professor of English at the University of Calgary and author of Comics Versus Art