Greatest Comic Book of All Time - Symbolic Capital and the Field of American Comic Books

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.

List of 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?.

About the author

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.                                                                                                                                           

Product details

• Authors: Bar Beaty, Bart Beaty, Bart Woo Beaty, Benjamin Woo
• Publisher: Palgrave UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Release: 15.04.2016, delayed
• EAN: 9781349719785
• ISBN: 978-1-349-71978-5
• No. of pages: 155
• Series: Palgrave Pivot; Palgrave Studies in Comics and Graphic Novels; Philosophie & Politique / Philosophy & Politics; Palgrave Studies in Comics and; Palgrave Studies in Comics and
• Subject: Social sciences, law, business > Media, communication > Communication science