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Comic Books as History

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This well focused and perceptive analysis of a phenomenon in our popular culture--the new respectability of the comic book form--argues that the comics medium has a productive tradition of telling true stories with grace and economy. It details vividly the outburst of underground comics in the late 1960s and '70s, whose cadre of artistically gifted creators were committed ...more
Paperback, 180 pages
Published December 1st 1989 by University Press of Mississippi
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Comic Books as History: The Narrative Art of Jack Jackson, Art Spiegelman, and Harvey Pekar (Hardcover)

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