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American Comics: A History

Author : Jeremy Dauber
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 0393635619
Total Pages : 593 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (936 download)

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Download or read book American Comics: A History written by Jeremy Dauber and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2021-11-16 with total page 593 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The sweeping story of cartoons, comic strips, and graphic novels and their hold on the American imagination. Comics have conquered America. From our multiplexes, where Marvel and DC movies reign supreme, to our television screens, where comics-based shows like The Walking Dead have become among the most popular in cable history, to convention halls, best-seller lists, Pulitzer Prize–winning titles, and MacArthur Fellowship recipients, comics shape American culture, in ways high and low, superficial, and deeply profound. In American Comics, Columbia professor Jeremy Dauber takes readers through their incredible but little-known history, starting with the Civil War and cartoonist Thomas Nast, creator of the lasting and iconic images of Uncle Sam and Santa Claus; the golden age of newspaper comic strips and the first great superhero boom; the moral panic of the Eisenhower era, the Marvel Comics revolution, and the underground comix movement of the 1960s and ’70s; and finally into the twenty-first century, taking in the grim and gritty Dark Knights and Watchmen alongside the brilliant rise of the graphic novel by acclaimed practitioners like Art Spiegelman and Alison Bechdel. Dauber’s story shows not only how comics have changed over the decades but how American politics and culture have changed them. Throughout, he describes the origins of beloved comics, champions neglected masterpieces, and argues that we can understand how America sees itself through whose stories comics tell. Striking and revelatory, American Comics is a rich chronicle of the last 150 years of American history through the lens of its comic strips, political cartoons, superheroes, graphic novels, and more. FEATURING… • American Splendor • Archie • The Avengers • Kyle Baker • Batman • C. C. Beck • Black Panther • Captain America • Roz Chast • Walt Disney • Will Eisner • Neil Gaiman • Bill Gaines • Bill Griffith • Harley Quinn • Jack Kirby • Denis Kitchen • Krazy Kat • Harvey Kurtzman • Stan Lee • Little Orphan Annie • Maus • Frank Miller • Alan Moore • Mutt and Jeff • Gary Panter • Peanuts • Dav Pilkey • Gail Simone • Spider-Man • Superman • Dick Tracy • Wonder Wart-Hog • Wonder Woman • The Yellow Kid • Zap Comix … AND MANY MORE OF YOUR FAVORITES!

American History Comic Books

Author : Joseph D'Agnese
Publisher : Teaching Resources
ISBN 13 : 9780439466059
Total Pages : 64 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (66 download)

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Download or read book American History Comic Books written by Joseph D'Agnese and published by Teaching Resources. This book was released on 2005 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this collection of engaging and entertaining mini-comic books, students share in the adventures of time traveler Scooter McGinty as he celebrates Thanksgiving with the Pilgrims, rides through Lexington with Paul Revere, joins Lewis & Clark's Corps of Discovery, supports women's rights, and more. Includes background notes and teaching ideas.

Masters of American Comics

Author : John Carlin
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 030011317X
Total Pages : 341 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (1 download)

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Download or read book Masters of American Comics written by John Carlin and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2005-01-01 with total page 341 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents the work of America's most popular and influential comic artists, and includes critical essays accompanying each artist's drawings.

Jews and American Comics

Author : Paul Buhle
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Jews and American Comics written by Paul Buhle and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Yellow press headliners : Jewish comics in the dailies -- Comic book heroes -- The underground era -- Recovering Jewishness.

Of Comics and Men

Author : Jean-Paul Gabilliet
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN 13 : 1628469994
Total Pages : 571 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (284 download)

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Download or read book Of Comics and Men written by Jean-Paul Gabilliet and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 2013-03-25 with total page 571 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in France and long sought in English translation, Jean-Paul Gabilliet's Of Comics and Men: A Cultural History of American Comic Books documents the rise and development of the American comic book industry from the 1930s to the present. The book intertwines aesthetic issues and critical biographies with the concerns of production, distribution, and audience reception, making it one of the few interdisciplinary studies of the art form. A thorough introduction by translators and comics scholars Bart Beaty and Nick Nguyen brings the book up to date with explorations of the latest innovations, particularly the graphic novel. The book is organized into three sections: a concise history of the evolution of the comic book form in America; an overview of the distribution and consumption of American comic books, detailing specific controversies such as the creation of the Comics Code in the mid-1950s; and the problematic legitimization of the form that has occurred recently within the academy and in popular discourse. Viewing comic books from a variety of theoretical lenses, Gabilliet shows how seemingly disparate issues—creation, production, and reception—are in fact connected in ways that are not necessarily true of other art forms. Analyzing examples from a variety of genres, this book provides a thorough landmark overview of American comic books that sheds new light on this versatile art form.

Comic Book History of Comics

Author : Fred Van Lente
Publisher : IDW Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1613774540
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (137 download)

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Download or read book Comic Book History of Comics written by Fred Van Lente and published by IDW Publishing. This book was released on 2012-06-20 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For the first time ever, the inspiring, infuriating, and utterly insane story of comics, graphic novels, and manga is presented in comic book form! The award-winning Action Philosophers team of Fred Van Lente and Ryan Dunlavey turn their irreverent-but-accurate eye to the stories of Jack Kirby, R. Crumb, Harvey Kurtzman, Alan Moore, Stan Lee, Will Eisner, Fredric Wertham, Roy Lichtenstein, Art Spiegelman, Herge, Osamu Tezuka - and more! Collects Comic Book Comics #1-6.

Pulp Empire

Author : Paul S. Hirsch
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226829464
Total Pages : 346 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (268 download)

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Download or read book Pulp Empire written by Paul S. Hirsch and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2024-06-05 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the Popular Culture Association's Ray and Pat Browne Award for Best Book in Popular or American Culture In the 1940s and ’50s, comic books were some of the most popular—and most unfiltered—entertainment in the United States. Publishers sold hundreds of millions of copies a year of violent, racist, and luridly sexual comics to Americans of all ages until a 1954 Senate investigation led to a censorship code that nearly destroyed the industry. But this was far from the first time the US government actively involved itself with comics—it was simply the most dramatic manifestation of a long, strange relationship between high-level policy makers and a medium that even artists and writers often dismissed as a creative sewer. In Pulp Empire, Paul S. Hirsch uncovers the gripping untold story of how the US government both attacked and appropriated comic books to help wage World War II and the Cold War, promote official—and clandestine—foreign policy and deflect global critiques of American racism. As Hirsch details, during World War II—and the concurrent golden age of comic books—government agencies worked directly with comic book publishers to stoke hatred for the Axis powers while simultaneously attempting to dispel racial tensions at home. Later, as the Cold War defense industry ballooned—and as comic book sales reached historic heights—the government again turned to the medium, this time trying to win hearts and minds in the decolonizing world through cartoon propaganda. Hirsch’s groundbreaking research weaves together a wealth of previously classified material, including secret wartime records, official legislative documents, and caches of personal papers. His book explores the uneasy contradiction of how comics were both vital expressions of American freedom and unsettling glimpses into the national id—scourged and repressed on the one hand and deployed as official propaganda on the other. Pulp Empire is a riveting illumination of underexplored chapters in the histories of comic books, foreign policy, and race.

The American Comic Book

Author : Joseph Michael Sommers
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781619252264
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (522 download)

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Download or read book The American Comic Book written by Joseph Michael Sommers and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The popular American comic book is considered in this volume of Critical Insights. From their creation in the 1930s to the widespread popularity of comic book heroes today, this literary form continues to delight and entertain readers. This volume offers a collection of original essays that will establish for students and their teachers an exemplary representation of American comics as a field of study within American literature.

American Comic Book Chronicles: The 1990s

Author : Keith Dallas
Publisher : Two Morrows Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781605490847
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (98 download)

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Download or read book American Comic Book Chronicles: The 1990s written by Keith Dallas and published by Two Morrows Publishing. This book was released on 2021-03-23 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 1990s was the decade when Marvel Comics sold 8.1 million copies of an issue of the X-Men, saw its superstar creators form their own company, cloned Spider-Man, and went bankrupt. It was when Superman died, Batman had his back broken, and the runaway success of Neil Gaiman's Sandman led to DC Comics' Vertigo line of adult comic books. It was the decade of gimmicky covers, skimpy costumes, and mega-crossovers. But most of all, the 1990s was the decade when companies like Image, Valiant and Malibu published million-selling comic books before the industry experienced a shocking and rapid collapse! These are just a few of the events chronicled in this exhaustive, full-color hardcover.

Super-History

Author : Jeffrey K. Johnson
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 9780786465644
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (656 download)

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Download or read book Super-History written by Jeffrey K. Johnson and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2012-04-03 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the less than eight decades since Superman's debut in 1938, comic book superheroes have become an indispensable part of American society and the nation's dominant mythology. They represent America's hopes, dreams, fears, and needs. As a form of popular literature, superhero narratives have closely mirrored trends and events in the nation. This study views American history from 1938 to 2010 through the lens of superhero comics, revealing the spandex-clad guardians to be not only fictional characters but barometers of the place and time in which they reside. Instructors considering this book for use in a course may request an examination copy here.

The Classic Era of American Comics

Author : Nicky Wright
Publisher : Prion (GB)
ISBN 13 : 9781853753367
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (533 download)

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Download or read book The Classic Era of American Comics written by Nicky Wright and published by Prion (GB). This book was released on 2000 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The classic era takes us from the 1930s to the 1950s and the decline that set in with the self-censorship imposed on the publishers by Congress and the churches. This tells the story of the publishers, the artists and the industry--its successes and its disasters, its worth as an art form and the fears its excesses provoked.

The Best American Comics 2019

Author : Bill Kartalopoulos
Publisher : Mariner Books
ISBN 13 : 0358067286
Total Pages : 409 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (58 download)

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Download or read book The Best American Comics 2019 written by Bill Kartalopoulos and published by Mariner Books. This book was released on 2019 with total page 409 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jillian Tamaki, co-author of This One Summer, picks the best graphic pieces of the year. "The pieces I chose were those that stuck with me, represented something important about comics in this moment, and exemplified excellence of the craft. Surveying the final collection, I'm moved by the variety of individual approaches. There are so many ways to make us care about little marks on a page."--Jillian Tamaki, from the introduction The Best American Comics 2019 showcases the work of established and up-and-coming artists, collecting work found in the pages of graphic novels, comic books, periodicals, zines, online, in galleries, and more, highlighting the kaleidoscopic diversity of the comics form today. Featuring Vera Brosgol, Eleanor Davis, Nick Drnaso, Margot Ferrick, Ben Passmore, John Porcellino, Joe Sacco, Lauren Weinstein, Lale Westvind, and others.

The Rise of the American Comics Artist

Author : Paul Williams
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN 13 : 160473793X
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (47 download)

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Download or read book The Rise of the American Comics Artist written by Paul Williams and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 2010-11-11 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contributions by David M. Ball, Ian Gordon, Andrew Loman, Andrea A. Lunsford, James Lyons, Ana Merino, Graham J. Murphy, Chris Murray, Adam Rosenblatt, Julia Round, Joe Sutliff Sanders, Stephen Weiner, and Paul Williams Starting in the mid-1980s, a talented set of comics artists changed the American comic book industry forever by introducing adult sensibilities and aesthetic considerations into popular genres such as superhero comics and the newspaper strip. Frank Miller's Batman: The Dark Knight Returns (1986) and Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons's Watchmen (1987) revolutionized the former genre in particular. During this same period, underground and alternative genres began to garner critical acclaim and media attention beyond comics-specific outlets, as best represented by Art Spiegelman's Maus. Publishers began to collect, bind, and market comics as “graphic novels,” and these appeared in mainstream bookstores and in magazine reviews. The Rise of the American Comics Artist: Creators and Contexts brings together new scholarship surveying the production, distribution, and reception of American comics from this pivotal decade to the present. The collection specifically explores the figure of the comics creator—either as writer, as artist, or as writer and artist—in contemporary US comics, using creators as focal points to evaluate changes to the industry, its aesthetics, and its critical reception. The book also includes essays on landmark creators such as Joe Sacco, Art Spiegelman, and Chris Ware, as well as insightful interviews with Jeff Smith (Bone), Jim Woodring (Frank) and Scott McCloud (Understanding Comics). As comics have reached new audiences, through different material and electronic forms, the public's broad perception of what comics are has changed. The Rise of the American Comics Artist surveys the ways in which the figure of the creator has been at the heart of these evolutions.

The Secret History of AA Comics

Author : Bob Rozakis
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 1105321711
Total Pages : 130 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (53 download)

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Download or read book The Secret History of AA Comics written by Bob Rozakis and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2011 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In the 1940s, M.C. Gaines sold his All-American Comics line to his partners at DC Comics. But what if, instead, he had bought out DC? And suppose Green Lantern and The Flash had become the surviving heroes of the Golden Age, with new versions of Superman and Batman launching the Silver Age of Comics? Comic book industry veteran Bob Rozakis delivers a fascinating tale of what might have been, complete with art from the Earth-AA archives!"--Amazon.com.

The Encyclopedia of American Comics

Author : Ron Goulart
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780816025824
Total Pages : 408 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (258 download)

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Download or read book The Encyclopedia of American Comics written by Ron Goulart and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A history of comic books and strips, from the creation of Katzenjammer Kids in 1897 to today's Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, offers insight into the characters, artists, and syndicates

History Comics: The American Bison

Author : Andy Hirsch
Publisher : First Second
ISBN 13 : 9781250265821
Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (658 download)

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Download or read book History Comics: The American Bison written by Andy Hirsch and published by First Second. This book was released on 2021-06-01 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Funnybooks

Author : Michael Barrier
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520283902
Total Pages : 432 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (22 download)

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Download or read book Funnybooks written by Michael Barrier and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2015 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Funnybooks is the story of the most popular American comic books of the 1940s and 1950s, those published under the Dell label. For a time, “Dell Comics Are Good Comics” was more than a slogan—it was a simple statement of fact. Many of the stories written and drawn by people like Carl Barks (Donald Duck, Uncle Scrooge), John Stanley (Little Lulu), and Walt Kelly (Pogo) repay reading and rereading by educated adults even today, decades after they were published as disposable entertainment for children. Such triumphs were improbable, to say the least, because midcentury comics were so widely dismissed as trash by angry parents, indignant librarians, and even many of the people who published them. It was all but miraculous that a few great cartoonists were able to look past that nearly universal scorn and grasp the artistic potential of their medium. With clarity and enthusiasm, Barrier explains what made the best stories in the Dell comic books so special. He deftly turns a complex and detailed history into an expressive narrative sure to appeal to an audience beyond scholars and historians.