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The Comics of Joe Sacco

Journalism in a Visual World

Edited by Daniel Worden
University Press of Mississippi

The first book-length study of the acclaimed artist who brought journalistic reportage to comics

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Wide Awake in Slumberland

Fantasy, Mass Culture, and Modernism in the Art of Winsor McCay

University Press of Mississippi

The first study to place this genius of modern comics creation in his historical context

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We Go Pogo

Walt Kelly, Politics, and American Satire

University Press of Mississippi

A critical appreciation of the life’s work of a great comic strip artist

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Lynda Barry

Girlhood through the Looking Glass

University Press of Mississippi

A critical biography of one of the pioneers of alternative weekly comic strips

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Hand of Fire

The Comics Art of Jack Kirby

University Press of Mississippi

The first critical exploration of the work of a great comics creator

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Grant Morrison

Combining the Worlds of Contemporary Comics

University Press of Mississippi

A critical study of a postmodern comics writer who flaunts superhero conventions

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God of Comics

Osamu Tezuka and the Creation of Post-World War II Manga

University Press of Mississippi

An assessment of the worldwide achievement of the man who made manga mainstream

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Alan Moore

Comics as Performance, Fiction as Scalpel

University Press of Mississippi

A study of the British author of V for Vendetta, Watchmen, From Hell, and many other comics and graphic novels

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Garry Trudeau

Doonesbury and the Aesthetics of Satire

University Press of Mississippi

How a revolutionary cartoonist opened the funnies to political commentary and biting satire

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Father of the Comic Strip

Rodolphe Töpffer

University Press of Mississippi

A critical study of the Swiss artist who created the comic strip

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Carl Barks and the Disney Comic Book

Unmasking the Myth of Modernity

University Press of Mississippi

The first full-length critical study of the genius who created Duckburg and Uncle Scrooge

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