Comic Books As History
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Author | : Joseph Witek |
Publisher | : Univ. Press of Mississippi |
Total Pages | : 188 |
Release | : 1989 |
Genre | : Antiques & Collectibles |
ISBN | : 9780878054060 |
This first full-length scholarly study of comic books as a narrative form attempts to explain why comic books, traditionally considered to be juvenile trash literature, have in the 1980s been used by serious artists to tell realistic stories for adults
Author | : Ron Goulart |
Publisher | : Collectors Press, Inc. |
Total Pages | : 216 |
Release | : 2000 |
Genre | : Comic book covers |
ISBN | : 1888054387 |
A history of American comic books told almost entirely through reprinted comic book covers.
Author | : Shirrel Rhoades |
Publisher | : Peter Lang |
Total Pages | : 370 |
Release | : 2008 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 9781433101076 |
This book is an updated history of the American comic book by an industry insider. You'll follow the development of comics from the first appearance of the comic book format in the Platinum Age of the 1930s to the creation of the superhero genre in the Golden Age, to the current period, where comics flourish as graphic novels and blockbuster movies. Along the way you will meet the hustlers, hucksters, hacks, and visionaries who made the American comic book what it is today. It's an exciting journey, filled with mutants, changelings, atomized scientists, gamma-ray accidents, and supernaturally empowered heroes and villains who challenge the imagination and spark the secret identities lurking within us.
Author | : Paul S. Hirsch |
Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 346 |
Release | : 2024-06-05 |
Genre | : Comics & Graphic Novels |
ISBN | : 0226829464 |
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.
Author | : Matthew Pustz |
Publisher | : A&C Black |
Total Pages | : 297 |
Release | : 2012-02-23 |
Genre | : Comics & Graphic Novels |
ISBN | : 1441172629 |
A highly original collection of essays, demonstrating how comic books can be used as primary sources in the teaching and understanding of American history.
Author | : Fred Van Lente |
Publisher | : IDW Publishing |
Total Pages | : 226 |
Release | : 2012-06-20 |
Genre | : Comics & Graphic Novels |
ISBN | : 1613774540 |
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.
Author | : Jennifer M. Besel |
Publisher | : Capstone |
Total Pages | : 26 |
Release | : 2011 |
Genre | : Comic books, strips, etc |
ISBN | : 1429647906 |
"Describes the history of comic books, featuring little known facts and bizarre inside information"--Provided by publisher.
Author | : Annessa Ann Babic |
Publisher | : Rowman & Littlefield |
Total Pages | : 274 |
Release | : 2013-12-11 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1611475570 |
This anthology hosts a collection of essays examining the role of comics as portals for historical and academic content, while keeping the approach on an international market versus the American one. Few resources currently exist showing the cross-disciplinary aspects of comics. Some of the chapters examine the use of Wonder Woman during World War II, the development and culture of French comics, and theories of Locke and Hobbs in regards to the state of nature and the bonds of community. More so, the continual use of comics for the retelling of classic tales and current events demonstrates that the genre has long passed the phase of for children’s eyes only. Additionally, this anthology also weaves graphic novels into the dialogue with comics.
Author | : Fred Van Lente |
Publisher | : IDW Publishing |
Total Pages | : 132 |
Release | : 2021-07-21 |
Genre | : Comics & Graphic Novels |
ISBN | : 1649360002 |
From the team behind The Comic Book History of Comics comes the perfect companion piece telling the story of the triumphs and tragedies of the filmmakers and beloved animated characters of the past century and a half—essential for hardcore fans of the medium and noobies alike! It's all here, from Aardman to Zoetrope, Disney to Miyazaki, Hanna-Barbera to Pixar, and everything in-between! Begin in the early 1900s with J. Stuart Blackton and the first American cartoon, Winsor McCay's Gertie the Dinosaur, and Felix the Cat! Find out about Margaret Winkler, the most powerful person in early animation, and Walt Disney, who revolutionizes cartoons with sound and color! Discover how Fleischer Studios teaches us to sing "Boop-boop-a-doop" and eat our spinach, and how Warner Bros' Looney Toons rivaled Disney's Silly Symphonies! Plus, icons of animation including Hanna-Barbera, Huckleberry Hound, The Flintstones, and Ruby-Spears; the Plastic Age of toy-based TV shows including G.I. Joe, Transformers, and He-Man; and the new Golden Age of TV animation launched by The Simpsons! And go abroad to France with Émile Cohl's dynamic doodles in Fantasmagorie; to Japan, where the Imperial Navy debuts the first full-length anime as propaganda, Divine Sea Warriors, and Osamu Tezuka conquers TV as he conquered manga; and to Argentina, which beat out Snow White for the first feature length animated movie by two decades! And finally, Jurassic Park and the computer animation revolution! Post-Little Mermaid Disney, Pixar, and Studio Ghibli conquer the world! If you’ve ever wanted to know more about the history of animation but were afraid to ask, this book is especially for you!
Author | : Robert C. Harvey |
Publisher | : Univ. Press of Mississippi |
Total Pages | : 304 |
Release | : 1996 |
Genre | : Comic books, strips, etc |
ISBN | : 9780878057580 |
A history of the comic book, in which a noted cartoonist demonstrates the aesthetics and power of the medium