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Readers
21/100Critics
36/100Scholars
Author:
Jeremy Dauber
Publisher:
W. W. Norton & Company
Date:
November 16, 2021
A Columbia University professor of Jewish literature and American Studies offers a sweeping story of cartoons, comic strips, graphic novels and their hold on the American imagination.
What The Reviewers Say
[Dauber] demonstrates in American Comics: A History an assured command of comics’ variety as well as the vast literature they’ve inspired. (There are nearly 90 pages of notes.) His perceptive, critical overview is enlivened by a jaunty style that bops from the political cartoons of Thomas Nast in the 1860s to the demise of an equally influential gadfly, Mad magazine, in 2018.
Jeremy Dauber’s American Comics: A History is an entertaining, big, and (sometimes too) comprehensive survey of the comics industry, from its inception in early twentieth-century newspapers to the latest Marvel Cinematic Universe megamovie crossover empire.
No detail escapes Dauber.
Dauber has written a scholarly survey that is both opinionated and frequently funny.
