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

Comics have conquered America. From our cinemas  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  before turning 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.

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