• Media type: Book
  • Title: Of comics and men : a cultural history of American comic books
  • Work titles: Des comics et des hommes <engl.>
    Gabilliet, Jean-Paul: Des comics et des hommes <engl.>
  • Contains: From comics to comic books (1842 1936) -- The beginnings of an industry: comics magazines -- (1936 1940) -- Comic books at war (1940 1945) -- Ever more the apogee and the fall (1945 1954) -- Decline and rebirth (1955 1962) -- The age of innovation (1963 1969) -- Research and development by trial and error -- (1969 1979) -- The recovery of the 1980s (1980 1993) -- The end of a century and the beginning of a new century (1993- ) production -- The business of comic books -- The creators -- The readers -- Calls for censorship -- Internal consecration -- External consecration -- Conclusion -- Self-regulating codes of the comic book industry.
  • Contributor: Gabilliet, Jean-Paul [Author]; Beaty, Bart [Other]; Nguyen, Nick [Other]
  • imprint: Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2010
  • Issue: 1. printing
  • Extent: XX, 390 S.; graph. Darst
  • Language: English; French
  • ISBN: 9781617038556; 9781604732672
  • RVK notation: LO 96700 : Zeichnung, Grafik
    EC 7120 : Comic, hier auch Graphic Novel
    AP 88740 : Geschichte nach einzelnen Ländern
    ED 4120 : Comic
    HU 1850 : Sonstige Gattungen
  • Keywords: USA > Comic > Geschichte 1842-2004
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  • Footnote: Includes bibliographical references and index
  • Description: From comics to comic books (1842 1936) -- The beginnings of an industry: comics magazines -- (1936 1940) -- Comic books at war (1940 1945) -- Ever more the apogee and the fall (1945 1954) -- Decline and rebirth (1955 1962) -- The age of innovation (1963 1969) -- Research and development by trial and error -- (1969 1979) -- The recovery of the 1980s (1980 1993) -- The end of a century and the beginning of a new century (1993- ) production -- The business of comic books -- The creators -- The readers -- Calls for censorship -- Internal consecration -- External consecration -- Conclusion -- Self-regulating codes of the comic book industry

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