Author: Richard Scully Publisher: Manchester University Press ISBN: 1526142961 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 528
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Comic empires is an innovative collection of new scholarly research, exploring the relationship between imperialism and cartoons, caricature, and comic art.
Author: Christopher Moeller Publisher: ISBN: 9781593070151 Category : Comic strip characters Languages : en Pages : 0
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Faith Conquers kicks off the release of the highly anticipated Iron Empires role-playing game, as well as a series of new Iron Empires adventures in the months to follow. Volume 1 collects the 4 part series originally titled Shadow Empires, and features the three-part story The Passage, now in full colour for the first time!
Author: Howard Zinn Publisher: Macmillan ISBN: 9780805087444 Category : Comics & Graphic Novels Languages : en Pages : 292
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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: Tom Veitch Publisher: Dark Horse Books ISBN: 9781569713068 Category : Comic books, strips, etc Languages : en Pages : 0
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Emperor Palpatine has a new weapon -- one that can annihilate a planet. But he's not targeting a planet -- he's targeting the future of the Jedi, Leia's children. It looks like a hopeless situation for Luke Skywalker, who has the critical task of protecting the children. But it's not the first time Luke has found hope where none existed. The finale to the Dark Empire trilogy is collected here.
Author: Paul S. Hirsch Publisher: University of Chicago Press ISBN: 0226829464 Category : Comics & Graphic Novels Languages : en Pages : 346
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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.
Author: Rachel Allen Everett Publisher: ISBN: 9781957261003 Category : Languages : en Pages :
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Three chilling murders in a town ripe with superstition make for a tough case to crack. Will our hard-nosed Detective Hogan nab the crook, or has the Devil really come to Manderfield? Noir murder mystery meets cautionary fantasy in this one-shot graphic novella inspired by Hellboy and The Twilight Zone. Recommended for ages 13+.
Author: Publisher: ISBN: 9781934044179 Category : Comics & Graphic Novels Languages : en Pages : 52
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Originally published in the midst of the cold war, Is This Tomorrow is a classic example of red scare propaganda. The story envisions a scenario in which the Soviet Union orders American communists to overthrow the US Government. Charles Schulz contributed to the artwork throughout the issue. Reprinted here for the first time in 70 years.
Author: Karl Stock Publisher: Rebellion Publishing Ltd ISBN: 1786189836 Category : Comics & Graphic Novels Languages : en Pages : 494
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The influence of the comic book has never been greater, from movies to streaming and beyond, but the journey comics took from disposable kids' magazines to literary prize-winning books and global franchises turned on a highly unusual group of writers and artists. Few would have expected a small gathering of British comic book fans and creators in the early '70s to spark a cultural revolution, but this was the start of a disparate movement of punks, dropouts and disaffected youths who reinvented a medium and became the imaginative heart of a global success story. Based on years of interviews with a generation of leading writers, artists and editors, Karl Stock reveals the true story of the wild times, passion and determination that helped, hindered and saw the reinvention of comics. Stock brilliantly tells the story of the triumphs and disasters that rewrote the rulebook on what comics could be and who they should be for.
Author: Zanne Domoney-Lyttle Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing ISBN: 0567713911 Category : Religion Languages : en Pages : 122
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This interdisciplinary volume seeks to trace the diverse ways in which stories of biblical women have been reimagined in and as comic books. Feminist biblical scholarship has previously addressed the tradition that relegates female biblical characters to secondary roles, merely enabling the male characters to attain their own goals. Using examples from both secular and religious comic Bibles, and comic Bibles aimed at children and older audiences, Zanne Domoney-Lyttle now fully considers contemporary remediations of biblical narratives to the same degree. Remediating ancient, biblical text into modern, graphical comic books affects the reception of the text in several ways. This book aims to investigate how the production, format, and function of comic Bibles encourages the depiction of biblical characters from a contemporary perspective, while also showing some fidelity to the text. By presenting a focused analysis on women in the Bible, wider issues concerning popular-cultural retellings of the Bible in general begin to surface, including matters concerning reception history, the space between art and literature inhabited by biblical comics, and issues of translation and interpretations within contemporary remediations.
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