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  1. The other 1980s
    reframing comics' crucial decade
    Contributor: Costello, Brannon (Publisher); Cremins, Brian (Publisher)
    Published: 2021
    Publisher:  Louisiana State University Press, Baton Rouge

    "Fans and scholars have long regarded the 1980s as a significant turning point in the history of comics in the U.S. The decade saw titles such as Art Spiegelman's "Maus", Frank Miller's "Batman: The Dark Knight Returns", and Alan Moore and Dave... more

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    Universitätsbibliothek Würzburg
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    "Fans and scholars have long regarded the 1980s as a significant turning point in the history of comics in the U.S. The decade saw titles such as Art Spiegelman's "Maus", Frank Miller's "Batman: The Dark Knight Returns", and Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons's "Watchmen" celebrated by both readers and critics alike, even attracting the attention of prominent publications including the "New York Times," the "Atlantic," and "Rolling Stone." Three decades later, most of the critical discussion of the period still focuses on these three books and their creators, eclipsing the work of others who also played a key role in shaping comics as we know them today. With twenty essays covering a diverse array of material, "The Other 1980s: Reframing Comics' Crucial Decade" offers a more complicated and multivalent picture of this remarkably robust era of ambitious comics publishing. Many of the works considered in this volume were hailed as innovative and groundbreaking in their day, but they have fallen to the wayside, in some cases because they do not easily square with the dominant tendencies in comics studies. Instead, "The Other 1980s" illuminates works that prove far more unwieldy, though no less interesting: open-ended serials that do not translate neatly to the graphic novel format beloved by literature departments; sprawling superhero narratives with no connection to corporate superhero universes; offbeat and abandoned experiments by major publishers, including Marvel and DC, to reach new audiences; idiosyncratic and experimental independent comics; unusual genre exercises filtered through deeply personal sensibilities; and oft-neglected offshoots of the classic "underground" comics movement of the 1960s and 1970s. The contributors also offer original and enlightening examinations of the ways in which the fans and critics of the day engaged with creators and publishers and laid the groundwork for much of the contemporary critical and academic discourse on comics. By uncovering comics and creators long ignored by comics studies, "The Other 1980s" offers a more nuanced understanding of the context from which the iconic works of the 1980s emerged and revises conventional histories of this major period in comics"--

     
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    Source: Union catalogues
    Contributor: Costello, Brannon (Publisher); Cremins, Brian (Publisher)
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9780807175507; 9780807175514
    RVK Categories: EC 7120 ; HU 1821
    Subjects: Comic
    Other subjects: Comic books, strips, etc / United States / History / 20th century; Nineteen eighties; Comic books, strips, etc; Nineteen eighties; United States; 1900-1999; History
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource (vi, 355 Seiten), Illustrationen
  2. Comics and conflict
    patriotism and propaganda from WWII through Operation Iraqi Freedom
    Author: Scott, Cord A.
    Published: 2014
    Publisher:  Naval Inst. Press, Annapolis, Md.

    "The comic book, which emerged in its modern form in the 1930s, was initially a form of simple, visual entertainment that gave readers, especially children, a form of escape from daily life. However, as World War II began, comic books evolved into a... more

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    Bayerische Staatsbibliothek
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    Universitätsbibliothek der LMU München
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    "The comic book, which emerged in its modern form in the 1930s, was initially a form of simple, visual entertainment that gave readers, especially children, a form of escape from daily life. However, as World War II began, comic books evolved into a form of propaganda, providing information and education for both children and adults. Comics and Conflict examines how comic books were used to display patriotism, valor and adventure through war stories, and eventually to tell of the horrors of combat from World War II through the current conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan"--

     
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  3. Comics and conflict
    patriotism and propaganda from WWII through Operation Iraqi Freedom
    Author: Scott, Cord A.
    Published: 2014
    Publisher:  Naval Inst. Press, Annapolis, Md.

    "The comic book, which emerged in its modern form in the 1930s, was initially a form of simple, visual entertainment that gave readers, especially children, a form of escape from daily life. However, as World War II began, comic books evolved into a... more

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    Freie Universität Berlin, Universitätsbibliothek
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    Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Universitätsbibliothek, Jacob-und-Wilhelm-Grimm-Zentrum
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    "The comic book, which emerged in its modern form in the 1930s, was initially a form of simple, visual entertainment that gave readers, especially children, a form of escape from daily life. However, as World War II began, comic books evolved into a form of propaganda, providing information and education for both children and adults. Comics and Conflict examines how comic books were used to display patriotism, valor and adventure through war stories, and eventually to tell of the horrors of combat from World War II through the current conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan"--

     
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  4. Korean war comic books
    Author: Rifas, Leonard
    Published: 2021
    Publisher:  McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, Jefferson, North Carolina

    "Comic books have presented fictional and fact-based stories of the Korean War, as it was being fought and afterward. Comparing these comics with events that inspired them offers a deeper understanding of the comics industry, America's "forgotten... more

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    Zentralinstitut für Kunstgeschichte, Bibliothek
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    No loan of volumes, only paper copies will be sent

     

    "Comic books have presented fictional and fact-based stories of the Korean War, as it was being fought and afterward. Comparing these comics with events that inspired them offers a deeper understanding of the comics industry, America's "forgotten war," and the anti-comics movement, championed by psychiatrist Fredric Wertham, who criticized their brutalization of the imagination. Comics-both newsstand offerings and government propaganda-used fictions to justify the unpopular war as necessary and moral. This book examines the dramatization of events and issues, including the war's origins, germ warfare, brainwashing, Cold War espionage, the nuclear threat, African Americans in the military, mistreatment of POWs, and atrocities."--

     
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    Content information
    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    ISBN: 9780786443963
    Subjects: Koreakrieg <Motiv>; Comic
    Other subjects: Comic books, strips, etc / United States / History / 20th century; Korean War, 1950-1953 / Literature and the war; Censorship / United States / History / 20th century; War in literature
    Scope: vi, 339 Seiten, Illustrationen
    Notes:

    Includes bibliographical references and index