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Greatest Comic Book of All Time, The: Symbolic Capital and the Field of American Comic Books 1st ed. 2016


Greatest Comic Book of All Time, The: Symbolic Capital and the Field of American Comic Books 1st ed. 2016

Hardback by Beaty, Bart; Woo, Benjamin

Greatest Comic Book of All Time, The: Symbolic Capital and the Field of American Comic Books

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ISBN:
9781137561961
Publication Date:
28 Apr 2016
Edition/language:
1st ed. 2016 / English
Publisher:
Palgrave Macmillan
Imprint:
Palgrave Pivot
Pages:
156 pages
Format:
Hardback
For delivery:
Estimated despatch 28 May - 2 Jun 2024
Greatest Comic Book of All Time, The: Symbolic Capital and the Field of American Comic Books

Description

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.

Contents

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?.

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