[Comicsstudiessociety] IJOCA book available for review USA only - Jeremy Dauber -- The History of American Comics

[Mike Rhode]

 USA only due to postage costs. First person to respond directly to
mrhode at gmail.com.

Mike
Jeremy Dauber -- The History of American Comics

Captain Marvel and John Lewis, The Gumps and a young Raina Telgemeier, Art
Spiegelman and the Sandman, have never before joined forces in the pages of
a single book—until now. The latest from acclaimed author and Columbia
University professor Jeremy Dauber, *AMERICAN COMICS: A History (W. W.
Norton & Company; November 16, 2021) *tells the sweeping story of cartoons,
comic strips, and graphic novels and their century-long hold on the
American imagination.

*Jeremy Dauber *is a professor of Jewish literature and American studies at
Columbia University. His previous publications include *Jewish Comedy *and *The
Worlds of Sholem Aleichem*.

Beginning with the Civil War cartoonist Thomas Nast, who popularized the
lasting images of Uncle Sam and Santa Claus, Dauber assembles a cast of
creators as charismatic and changeable as any of their four-color heroes.
His research on these unlikely heroes (and villains) of comics history
whisks readers from the olden age of newspaper comic strips to the first
hero boom that brought us Superman, Batman, Wonder Woman and hundreds of
others; from the Eisenhower era’s moral panic to the trippy and visceral
products of small presses; from the grim and gritty fallen heroes of the
1990’s to the graphic novel’s brilliant rise.

Dauber’s book is thus at once an excavation and an illumination.
Throughout, he argues that we can understand how America sees itself
through whose stories comics tell. Striking and revelatory, *AMERICAN
COMICS *is a rich chronicle of the last 150 years of American history
through the lens of its comic strips, political cartoons, superheroes,
graphic novels, and more.
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