The paradox of distinction : the comic book on the Polish cultural marketplace

Jutkiewicz examines the state of Polish comic book art by drawing on Pierre Bourdieu's "Distinction". In Poland, this art form was initially seen as part of low-brow culture, but when a tight-knit social group of fans emerged in the 1980s, attempts were made to enhance the status of the graphic novel. Jutkiewicz discusses a selection of those projects and their relationship to the mechanisms of distinction at play in the cultural marketplace.