Review of the Day: Red Scare by Liam Francis Walsh

Red Scare
By Liam Francis Walsh
Graphix (an imprint of Scholastic)
$24.99
ISBN: 9781338167092
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To what extent has the age of disparaging comics passed? In the old days, books like Seduction of the Innocent by Frederic Wertham argued that comics were a morally repugnant form of entertainment. It took decades upon decades for graphic novels to pull themselves up out of the morass of ill-favored commentary and start winning major awards. The Pulitzer for Maus. The Newbery for New Kid. No...