[Comicsstudiessociety] New Book: Printing Terror: American Horror Comics as Cold War Commentary and Critique

[Philip Smith]

Dear colleagues,

With apologies for cross-posting. My friend Michael Goodrum and I wrote a
book <https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526135926/__;!!KGKeukY!jRaBtPyy6u00Feaqio7X2kiAyKiifxNqqB9vzAjMjfr4NtUREe0-7FQoqSR0fREQwJk_PDuYD7bh$ > which
Manchester UP were kind enough to publish. It is called *Printing Terror:
American Horror Comics as Cold War Commentary and Critique. *We are rather
pleased with it. The blurb is below.

Best wishes,

Phil

*Printing Terror *places horror comics of the Cold War in dialogue with the
anxieties of their age. It rejects the narrative of horror comics as
inherently, and necessarily, subversive and explores, instead, the ways in
which these texts manifest white male fears over America's changing
sociological landscape. It examines two eras: the pre-CCA period of the
1940s up to 1954, and the post-CCA era to 1975. The book examines each of
these periods through the lenses of war, gender, and race, demonstrating
that horror comics at this time were centered on white male victimhood and
the monstrosity of the gendered and/or racialised other. It is of interest
to scholars of horror, comics studies, and American history.
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