{"product_id":"komiks-jos-alaniz-9781628460506","title":"Komiks: Comic Art in Russia","description":"José Alaniz explores the problematic publication history of \u003ci\u003ekomiks\u003c\/i\u003e--an art form much-maligned as \"bourgeois\" mass diversion before, during, and after the collapse of the USSR--with an emphasis on the last twenty years. Using archival research, interviews with major artists and publishers, and close readings of several works, \u003ci\u003eKomiks: Comic Art in Russia\u003c\/i\u003e provides heretofore unavailable access to the country's rich--but unknown--comics heritage. The study examines the dizzying experimental comics of the late Czarist and early revolutionary era, caricature from the satirical journal \u003ci\u003eKrokodil\u003c\/i\u003e, and the postwar series \u003ci\u003ePetia Ryzhik\u003c\/i\u003e (the \"Russian Tintin\"). Detailed case studies include the Perestroika-era KOM studio, the first devoted to comics in the Soviet Union; post-Soviet comics in contemporary art; autobiography and the work of Nikolai Maslov; and women's comics by such artists as Lena Uzhinova, Namida, and Re-I. Alaniz examines such issues as anti-Americanism, censorship, the rise of consumerism, globalization (e.g., in Russian manga), the impact of the internet, and the hard-won establishment of a comics subculture in Russia \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003ci\u003eKomiks\u003c\/i\u003e have often borne the brunt of ideological change--thriving in summers of relative freedom, freezing in hard winters of official disdain. This volume covers the art form's origins in religious icon-making and book illustration, and later the immensely popular \u003ci\u003elubok\u003c\/i\u003e or woodblock print. Alaniz reveals comics' vilification and marginalization under the Communists, the art form's economic struggles, and its eventual internet \"migration\" in the post-Soviet era. This book shows that Russian comics, as with the people who made them, never had a \"normal life.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e José Alaniz\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1628460504\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781628460506\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University Press of Mississippi\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 02\/13\/2014\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 280\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.90lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.70h x 5.70w x 1.00d","brand":"José Alaniz","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43939397894399,"sku":"9781628460506","price":30.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/products\/img_cc1dbb93-63a0-43f6-99e5-7c0f1354cd84.jpg?v=1681441254","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/komiks-jos-alaniz-9781628460506","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}