UXL Graphic Novelists: Profiles of Cutting Edge Authors and Illustrators

摘要

Aimed at a high school or young adult audience, this beautifully produced work is a "squeaky clean" and noncon-troversial encyclopedia, deliberately lacking in adult content. It is a unique contribution to the field of graphic novels, which, according to the authors, had three separate but interconnected beginnings: in the 1930s in Europe with Herge's TinTin stories; in the late 1940s in Japan with manga (rooted in twelfth-century Japanese artistic traditions); and with Will Eisner's A Contract with God in the United States in 1978. Entries about graphic novelists (GN) run five to eight pages and the writing is uniformly clear throughout. Each entry includes a sidebar listing the GN's best-known works