The Rise of the Graphic Novel Graphic novels have exploded off bookstore shelves into movies, college courses, and the "New York Times "book review, and comics historian and children"s literature specialist Stephen Weiner explains the phenomenon in this groundbreaking book--the first history of graphic novels. From the agonizing Holocaust vision of Art Spiegelman"s "Maus" to the teenage angst of Dan Clowes"s "Ghost World," thi... Full description