Underground Comix and the Invention of Autobiography, History, and Reportage

Jean-Paul Gabilliet

doi:10.1017/9781316759981.010

10 - Underground Comix and the Invention of Autobiography, History, and Reportage

from Part I - 1799–1978

Published online by Cambridge University Press: 30 July 2018

Jean-Paul Gabilliet

Edited by

Jan Baetens ,

Hugo Frey and

Stephen E. Tabachnick

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Jan Baetens: Affiliation:
University of Leuven
Hugo Frey: Affiliation:
University of Chichester
Stephen E. Tabachnick: Affiliation:
University of Memphis

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Information: The Cambridge History of the Graphic Novel , pp. 155 - 170

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