02606cam a2200325 i 4500 607921107 TxAuBib 20221122120000.0 210524s2022||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2021024166 9781324036098 PAP 22.50 1324036095 PAP 22.50 TxAuBib rda Dauber, Jeremy Asher, author. American comics [BOOK] : a history / Jeremy Dauber. First edition. New York, NY : W.W. Norton & Company, [2022] xx, 570 pages ; 25 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier "Big premiere issue" -Cover. Includes bibliographical references (pages 451-537) and index. Comics have conquered America. From our multiplexes, 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; and 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. Provided by publisher. 20221122. Comic books, strips, etc United States History and criticism. Literature and society United States History 20th century. Graphic novels United States History and criticism. Literary criticism.