The greatest comic book of all time : symbolic capital and the field of American comic books / Bart Beaty, Benjamin Woo.

Bart Beaty and Benjamin Woo work to historicize why it is that certain works or creators have come to define the notion of a "quality comic book," while other works and creators have been left at the fringes of critical analysis.

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Online Access: Full Text (via Springer)
Main Authors: Beaty, Bart (Author), Woo, Benjamin (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Palgrave Macmillan, [2016]
Series:Palgrave studies in comics and graphic novels.
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Table of Contents:
  • 1 What If The Greatest Comic Book of All Time Were ...
  • 2 Maus by Art Spiegelman?
  • 3 A Short Story by Robert Crumb?
  • 4 A Superhero Story by Jack Kirby?
  • 5 Written by Alan Moore?
  • 6 The Cage by Martin Vaughn-James
  • 7 By Rob Liefeld?
  • 8 An Archie Comic?
  • 9 Not by a White Man?
  • 10 Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi?
  • 11 Dave Sim's Cerebus?
  • 12 Hicksville by Dylan Horrocks?