The Greatest Comic Book of All Time
Symbolic Capital and the Field of American Comic Books
Published on 28. April 2016
Book
Hardback
XI, 156 pages
978-1-137-56196-1 (ISBN)
Description
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.
Reviews / Votes
"I would unhesitatingly recommend The Greatest Comic Book of All Time as one of the most important recent publications in comics studies. . professional comics scholars of every stripe should read it. . no one has done a better job than Beaty and Woo of showing us just how much bigger our playground could be." (Ben Saunders, Inks The Journal of the Comics Studies Society, Vol. 1 (2), 2017)
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Series
Edition
1st ed. 2016
Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Publishing group
Palgrave Macmillan
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
Illustrations
4 farbige Abbildungen
XI, 156 p. 4 illus. in color.
Dimensions
Height: 216 mm
Width: 154 mm
Thickness: 17 mm
Weight
355 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-137-56196-1 (9781137561961)
DOI
10.1057/978-1-137-53162-9
Schweitzer Classification
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Symbolic Capital and the Field of American Comic Books
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Symbolic Capital and the Field of American Comic Books
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Persons
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.
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.
Content
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?.