The Greatest Comic Book of All Time

Symbolic Capital and the Field of American Comic Books
1. Auflage 2016
ISBN: 978-1-349-71978-5
Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan

Buch, Englisch, 155 Seiten, Book, Format (B × H): 148 mm x 210 mm

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

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Englische Literatur Amerikanische Literatur
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturgeschichte und Literaturkritik
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literarische Gattungen

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?.- 12Hicksville 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.