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THE FUNNIES AND BEYOND
CRITICAL ESSAYS ON THE FIRST HUNDRED YEARS IN COMICS IN AMERICA |
| By: |
Garth Jowett (Editor), Ian Gordon (Editor) |
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Hardback |
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£43.99 |
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| ISBN 10: |
081331870X |
| ISBN 13: |
9780813318707 |
| Publisher: |
INGRAM PUBLISHER SERVICES US |
| Pub. date: |
14 October, 1997 |
| Pages: |
344 |
| Description: |
A collection of original essays, illustrated and organized both chronologically and thematically, explore the history and socio-cultural significance of comic strips in the United States. |
| Synopsis: |
In February 1895, Joseph Pulitzer's "New York World" published a small cartoon by Richard F. Outcault that contained a jug-eared figure in a long nightshirt. On 5th May 1895, the same figure appeared in a full-page comic panel in the "World"'s Sunday humour strip. Within a year the figure gained a name - The Yellow Kid - and found a public whose devotion to the character helped make the new art form of comic strips an enduring feature of American newspapers. In the 1930s, entrepreneurs created another home for this art form in special comic books. These original essays, illustrated and organized both chronologically and thematically, explore the history and socio-cultural significance of comic strips in the United States. They discuss the 19th-century American culture that spawned the comic strip, and then turn to comic-strip syndication in the Hearst and Pulitzer newspapers, to Dr Frederic Wertham and the anti-comic-book campaign, and to Maus and the avant-garde. The contributors analyze major themes that have persisted in comic strips and comic books - propaganda and war, gender, the family, and ethnicity - and present discussions of fandom, comic production and content control. |
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illustrations |
| Publication: |
US |
| Imprint: |
Westview Press Inc |
| Returns: |
Non-returnable |
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