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This accessible, up-to-date textbook covers the history of comics as it developed in the U.S. in all of its forms: political cartoons and newspaper comic strips, comic books, graphic novels, minicomics, and webcomics.
List of contents
Introduction
1 Comic Strips
2 Comic Books
3 Underground Comix
4 Graphic Novels
5 Minicomics
6 Webcomics
About the author
Andrew J. Kunka is Professor of English at the University of South Carolina Sumter. He received his PhD in Twentieth-Century British Literature from Purdue University and a MA in British and American Literature from Marquette University. He is the author of
Autobiographical Comics and the Eisner Award-nominated
The Life and Comics of Howard Cruse: Taking Risks in the Service of Truth. He has written on a variety of topics in comics studies, including race and ethnicity, the history of the graphic novel, the Comics Code, and adaptations.
Rachel R. Miller received her PhD and MA in Twentieth and Twenty-First-Century American Literature and Visual Culture from The Ohio State University, where she served as the first Assistant Editor for
Inks: The Journal of the Comics Studies Society. Her work on women's comics has been published in
The Oxford Handbook of Comics Studies,
The Routledge Companion to Gender and Sexuality in Comic Book Studies, and
Comics Memory: Archives and Styles. She co-curated the show Ladies First: A Century of Women's Contributions to Comics and Cartoon Art at the Billy Ireland Cartoon Library and Museum.
Summary
This accessible, up-to-date textbook covers the history of comics as it developed in the U.S. in all of its forms: political cartoons and newspaper comic strips, comic books, graphic novels, minicomics, and webcomics.
