Comic History of the United States
Author: Bill Nye
Publisher: Library of Alexandria
Published: 2020-09-28
Total Pages: 214
ISBN-13: 161310488X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Bill Nye
Publisher: Library of Alexandria
Published: 2020-09-28
Total Pages: 214
ISBN-13: 161310488X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Livingston Hopkins
Publisher: New York : Cassell, Petter, Galpin
Published: 1880
Total Pages: 240
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Shirrel Rhoades
Publisher: Peter Lang
Published: 2008
Total Pages: 370
ISBN-13: 9781433101076
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This book is an updated history of the American comic book by an industry insider. You'll follow the development of comics from the first appearance of the comic book format in the Platinum Age of the 1930s to the creation of the superhero genre in the Golden Age, to the current period, where comics flourish as graphic novels and blockbuster movies. Along the way you will meet the hustlers, hucksters, hacks, and visionaries who made the American comic book what it is today. It's an exciting journey, filled with mutants, changelings, atomized scientists, gamma-ray accidents, and supernaturally empowered heroes and villains who challenge the imagination and spark the secret identities lurking within us.
Author: Matthew Pustz
Publisher: A&C Black
Published: 2012-02-23
Total Pages: 297
ISBN-13: 1441172629
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A highly original collection of essays, demonstrating how comic books can be used as primary sources in the teaching and understanding of American history.
Author: Livingston Hopkins
Publisher: New York : Cassell, Petter, Galpin
Published: 1880
Total Pages: 236
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Larry Gonick
Publisher: Harper Collins
Published: 1991-08-14
Total Pages: 404
ISBN-13: 0062730983
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →What? You don't know what a Burgess is? -- You can't outline the Monroe Doctrine? -- Recall the 14th Amendment? -- Explain the difference between a sputnik and a beatnik? Then you need The Cartoon History of the United Statesto fill those gaps. From the first English colonies to the Gulf War and the S&L debacle, Larry Gonick spells it all out from his unique cartoon perspective.
Author: Ron Goulart
Publisher: Collectors Press, Inc.
Published: 2000
Total Pages: 216
ISBN-13: 1888054387
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A history of American comic books told almost entirely through reprinted comic book covers.
Author: Stephen Krensky
Publisher: Twenty-First Century Books
Published: 2008-01-01
Total Pages: 116
ISBN-13: 0822566540
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Uses newspaper articles, historical overviews, and personal interviews to explain the history of American comic books and graphic novels.
Author: Howard Zinn
Publisher: Macmillan
Published: 2008-04
Total Pages: 292
ISBN-13: 9780805087444
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Adapted from the critically acclaimed chronicle of U.S. history, a study of American expansionism around the world is told from a grassroots perspective and provides an analysis of important events from Wounded Knee to Iraq.
Author: Paul S. Hirsch
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 2024-06-05
Total Pages: 346
ISBN-13: 0226829464
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Winner of the Popular Culture Association's Ray and Pat Browne Award for Best Book in Popular or American Culture In the 1940s and ’50s, comic books were some of the most popular—and most unfiltered—entertainment in the United States. Publishers sold hundreds of millions of copies a year of violent, racist, and luridly sexual comics to Americans of all ages until a 1954 Senate investigation led to a censorship code that nearly destroyed the industry. But this was far from the first time the US government actively involved itself with comics—it was simply the most dramatic manifestation of a long, strange relationship between high-level policy makers and a medium that even artists and writers often dismissed as a creative sewer. In Pulp Empire, Paul S. Hirsch uncovers the gripping untold story of how the US government both attacked and appropriated comic books to help wage World War II and the Cold War, promote official—and clandestine—foreign policy and deflect global critiques of American racism. As Hirsch details, during World War II—and the concurrent golden age of comic books—government agencies worked directly with comic book publishers to stoke hatred for the Axis powers while simultaneously attempting to dispel racial tensions at home. Later, as the Cold War defense industry ballooned—and as comic book sales reached historic heights—the government again turned to the medium, this time trying to win hearts and minds in the decolonizing world through cartoon propaganda. Hirsch’s groundbreaking research weaves together a wealth of previously classified material, including secret wartime records, official legislative documents, and caches of personal papers. His book explores the uneasy contradiction of how comics were both vital expressions of American freedom and unsettling glimpses into the national id—scourged and repressed on the one hand and deployed as official propaganda on the other. Pulp Empire is a riveting illumination of underexplored chapters in the histories of comic books, foreign policy, and race.