Comics Versus Art

‘This solid, sound, intriguing book will set the discourse on art and comics for a considerable time. Essential. All readers.’ J.A. Lent, Choice Magazine vol 50:07:2013

“Comics Versus Art is an intriguing text for readers of comics, and an illuminating look at the theoretical underpinnings of what we call – and refuse to call – art.”

Ian Daffern, Quill and Quire

‘Excellent investigation of the world of comics… In writing a history of ways the comic world has been taken up during modern era and beyond through sociology of art perspective, Beaty has made a valuable new contribution to the study of comic form. Beverly Haun, Canadian Literature 219, winter 2013

‘Comics Versus Art is an absolutely terrific, very impressive book. Bart Beaty has produced a striking institutional history of comics, focusing on their movement from a position of low culture and marginality to their new place of prominence. It’s a work of great sophistication, providing a broader, more nuanced sense of comics as a cultural form than we have previously understood. At the same time, Beaty explores these ideas with great clarity and focus in straightforward language.’ Scott Bukatman, Department of Art and Art History, Stanford University