Why comics? : from underground to everywhere / Hillary Chute.
"Over the past century, fans have elevated comics from the back pages of newspapers into one of our most celebrated forms of culture, from Fun Home, the Tony Award-winning musical based on Alison Bechdel's groundbreaking graphic memoir, to the dozens of superhero films that are annual blockbusters w...
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Language: | English |
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New York, NY :
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers,
[2017]
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Edition: | First edition. |
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MSU: Copy 2 in dust jacket. |
Physical Description: | 449 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm |
Format: | Book |
Contents:
- Foreword: one point of view / Gary Panter
- Introduction: comics for grown-ups?
- Why disaster?
- Why superheroes?
- Why sex?
- Why the suburbs?
- Why cities?
- Why punk?
- Why illness & disability?
- Why girls?
- Why war?
- Why queer?
- Coda: why fans?