EAN: 9780393635607

AMERICAN COMICS - A HISTORY - JEREMY DAUBER GEB...

Starting with the Civil War and cartoonist Thomas Nast  creator of the lasting images of Uncle
Sam and Santa Claus  author Jeremy Dauber whizzes readers through comics' progress in the
twentieth century and beyond: from the golden age of newspaper comic strips (Krazy Kat  Yellow
Kid  Dick Tracy) to the midcentury superhero boom (Superman  Batman  Wonder Woman)  from the
moral panic of the Eisenhower era to the underground comix movement  from the grim and gritty
Dark Knights and Watchmen to the graphic novel's brilliant rise (Art Spiegelman  Alison Bechdel
Joe Sacco). Dauber's story shows not only how comics have changed  but how American politics
and history 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.

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