Beaty / Woo The Greatest Comic Book of All Time

Symbolic Capital and the Field of American Comic Books
1. Auflage 2016
ISBN: 978-1-137-53162-9
Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan US
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 142 Seiten, eBook

Reihe: Palgrave Studies in Comics and Graphic Novels

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.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Beaty, Bart

Woo, Benjamin

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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?.

Über Autor(innen)

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.