books.google.com - In this definitive study of one of popular culture's favorite genres Robert C. Harvey, a cartoonist and comics critic, traces the evolution of the comic book as a potent form of narrative art. He takes it from its beginnings in the 1930s through the most contemporary of productions in the mid-1990s....http://books.google.com/books/about/The_Art_of_the_Comic_Book.html?id=vAH24kOdCq8C&utm_source=gb-gplus-shareThe Art of the Comic Book