Bart Beaty and Benjamin Woo work to historicize why it is that certain works or creators have come to define the notion of a ‘quality comic book, ‘ while other works and creators have been left at the fringes of critical analysis.
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Table of Content
1 What If The Greatest Comic Book of All Time Were….- 2
Maus by Art Spiegelman?.- 3 A Short Story by Robert Crumb?.- 4 A Superhero Story by Jack Kirby?.- 5 Written by Alan Moore?.- 6
The Cage by Martin Vaughn-James.- 7 By Rob Liefeld?.- 8 An Archie Comic?.- 9 Not by a White Man?.- 10
Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi?.- 11 Dave Sim’s
Cerebus?.- 12
Hicksville by Dylan Horrocks?.
About the author
Bart Beaty is Professor of English at the University of Calgary, Canada. Among other works, he is the author of
Twelve-Cent Archie,
Comics Versus Art, and
Unpopular Culture.
Benjamin Woo is Assistant Professor in the School of Journalism and Communication at Carleton University, Canada. His research examines contemporary geek media cultures, with a particular focus on the producers, institutions, and audiences oriented to comics and graphic novels.
Language English ● Format PDF ● Pages 156 ● ISBN 9781137531629 ● File size 2.3 MB ● Publisher Palgrave Macmillan US ● City New York ● Country US ● Published 2016 ● Downloadable 24 months ● Currency EUR ● ID 4884772 ● Copy protection Social DRM
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