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

[Mike Rhode]

The book has been claimed, thank you.

On Mon, Nov 15, 2021 at 11:06 AM Mike Rhode <mrhode at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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