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The greatest comic book of all time : symbolic capital and the field of American comic books / Bart Beaty, Benjamin Woo.
Author
Beaty, Bart
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Format
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Language
English
Published/Created
New York : Palgrave Macmillan, [2016]
©2016
Description
xi, 156 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
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Firestone Library - Stacks
PN6725 .B373 2016
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Subject(s)
Comic books, strips, etc
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United States
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History and criticism
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Author
Woo, Benjamin
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Series
Palgrave pivot
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Palgrave studies in comics and graphic novels
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Palgrave Pivot
Summary note
The authors 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.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
What if the greatest comic book of all time were...
Maus by Art Spiegelman?
A short story by Robert Crumb?
A superhero story by Jack Kirby?
Written by Alan Moore?
The Cage by Martin Vaughn-James
By Rob Liefeld?
An Archie Comic?
Not by a white man?
Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi?
Dave Sim's Cerebus?
Hicksville by Dylan Horrocks?
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ISBN
9781137561961 ((hardcover ; : acid-free paper))
1137561963 ((hardcover ; : acid-free paper))
9781349719785
1349719781
LCCN
2016936506
OCLC
956624784
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