The Greatest Comic Book of All Time: Symbolic Capital and the Field of American Comic Books

Author:   Bart Beaty ,  Benjamin Woo
Publisher:   Palgrave Macmillan
Edition:   1st ed. 2016
ISBN:  

9781137561961


Pages:   156
Publication Date:   28 April 2016
Format:   Hardback
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"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.                                                                                                                                                   "

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Author:   Bart Beaty ,  Benjamin Woo
Publisher:   Palgrave Macmillan
Imprint:   Palgrave Pivot
Edition:   1st ed. 2016
Dimensions:   Width: 14.80cm , Height: 1.50cm , Length: 21.00cm
Weight:   3.241kg
ISBN:  

9781137561961


ISBN 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   Availability explained
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Table of Contents

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?.                                                                                                                                 

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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)


Author Information

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.                                                                                                                                           

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