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31 - Reinvention of the Form: Chris Ware and Experimentalism after Raw

from Part III - 2000 to the present day

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  30 July 2018

By
Martha Kuhlman
Edited by
Jan Baetens ,
Hugo Frey  and
Stephen E. Tabachnick
Jan Baetens
Affiliation:
University of Leuven
Hugo Frey
Affiliation:
University of Chichester
Stephen E. Tabachnick
Affiliation:
University of Memphis
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The Cambridge History of the Graphic Novel , pp. 509 - 525
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2018

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