{"product_id":"american-comics-a-history","title":"American Comics: A History","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eThe sweeping story of cartoons, comic strips, and graphic novels and their hold on the American imagination. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eComics have conquered America. From our multiplexes, where Marvel and DC movies reign supreme, to our television screens, where comics-based shows like \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eThe Walking Dead\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e 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.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eIn \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eAmerican Comics\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, 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 \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eDark Knights\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e and \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eWatchmen\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e alongside the brilliant rise of the graphic novel by acclaimed practitioners like Art Spiegelman and Alison Bechdel.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eDauber’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 \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003ewhose\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e stories comics tell. Striking and revelatory, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eAmerican Comics\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e is a rich chronicle of the last 150 years of American history through the lens of its comic strips, political cartoons, superheroes, graphic novels, and more.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eby Jeremy Dauber (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003ePaperback, 592 Pages, Published October 2022\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"WW NORTON","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47671520035003,"sku":"9781324036098","price":23.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0548\/0444\/7419\/files\/Temp_42f42c7a-9aaf-401d-8c20-08ea03e78ac3.jpg?v=1775602499","url":"https:\/\/shop.skirball.org\/products\/american-comics-a-history","provider":"Audrey's Museum Store","version":"1.0","type":"link"}