Ec Comics - Race, Shock, and Social Protest

During its heyday in the early 1950s, EC Comics was an innovator in the so-called "preachies", socially conscious stories that challenged the conservatism of Eisenhower-era America. EC Comics examines a selection of these works and explores how they grappled with the civil rights struggle, antisemitism, and other forms of prejudice.

List of contents

Contents

Preface

A)    Introduction: The Preachies

1:         Spelled Out Carefully in the Captions

            How to Read an EC Magazine

2:         We Pictured Him So Different, Joey!

            Optical Illusions of Blackness and Embodiment in EC

3:         Oh God...Sob...What Have I Done...?

            Shame, Mob Rule, and the Affective Realities of EC Justice

4:         Battling, in the Sea of Comics

            EC's Invisible Man and the Jim Crow Future of "Judgment Day!"

B)    Conclusion: Hence We See Justice Triumph!

Appendix

Notes

Bibliography  

Index

 

About the author

QIANA WHITTED is a professor of English and African American studies at the University of South Carolina in Columbia. She is the author of A God of Justice?: The Problem of Evil in 20th Century Black Literature.

Summary

EC Comics recounts how, in the 1950s, EC published many sensationally-titled comics with serious, socially progressive themes—such as “Hate!,” “The Guilty!,” and “Judgment Day!”—and explores how they grappled with the civil rights struggle, anticommunist hysteria, and other forms of prejudice in America.

Product details

Authors	Qiana Whitted
Publisher	Rutgers University Press
Languages	English
Product format	Hardback
Released	31.03.2019
EAN	9780813566320
ISBN	978-0-8135-6632-0
No. of pages	196
Series	Comics Culture; Comics Culture
Subjects	Fiction > Comic, cartoon, humour, satire > Comic; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies

Product details

• Authors: Qiana Whitted
• Publisher: Rutgers University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.03.2019
• EAN: 9780813566320
• ISBN: 978-0-8135-6632-0
• No. of pages: 196
• Series: Comics Culture; Comics Culture
• Subjects: Fiction > Comic, cartoon, humour, satire > Comic; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies