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Overview"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. " Full Product DetailsAuthor: Bart Beaty , Benjamin WooPublisher: Palgrave Macmillan Imprint: Palgrave Pivot Edition: 1st ed. 2016 Dimensions: Width: 14.80cm , Height: 1.50cm , Length: 21.00cm Weight: 3.241kg ISBN: 9781137561961ISBN 10: 1137561963 Pages: 156 Publication Date: 28 April 2016 Audience: College/higher education , Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of Contents1 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?.ReviewsI 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) Author InformationBart 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. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |