Table of Contents: “…Comix, comic shops, and the rise of alternative comics, post 1968 -- An art of tensions -- A broader canvas -- "I made that whole thing up!" …”
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Table of Contents: “…Comix, comic shops, and the rise of alternative comics, post 1968 --…”

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Table of Contents: “…Acknowledgments; Introduction: The Evolution of the American Comic Book; 1 The Early Industrial Age I: Pulp Logic and the Rise of the American Comic Book; 2 The Early Industrial Age II: The Crusade Against Comic Books and the End of the Comic Book Boom; 3 The Late Industrial Age: The Return of the Superhero and the First Comic Book Rebellion; 4 From the Late Industrial to the Heroic Age: Comic Book Fandom and the Mainstream Pulp Rebellion; 5 The Heroic Age II: Alternative Comics and a Rebellion from the Margins.…”
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Table of Contents: “…: comics aren't just for cultural studies professors anymore -- The myth of eco : comics, continuity, and cultural populism -- The abuses of history : postmodernism and contemporary superhero comics -- Properties of the imagination : copyright and empire in the league of extraordinary gentlemen -- The limits of realism : alternative comics and the workshop aesthetic -- Comics studies in miniature : the canonization of persepolis -- Shadows of the past : fictions of history in nat turner -- Afterword. …”
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Table of Contents: “…Comic strips / Ian Gordon ; Comic books / Charles Hatfield ; Underground and alternative comics / Roger Sabin ; European traditions / Bart Beaty ; Manga / Frenchy Lunning ; The graphic novel / Isaac Cates -- Part II. …”
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