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Strips, Toons, and Bluesies: Essays in Comics and Culture Paperback - 2006 - 1st Edition

by D. B. Dowd (Editor); Todd Hignite; Todd Hignite (Editor)


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Comics are typically thought of as "low" art. While the latest "Gar eld" or "Boondocks" Sunday strip might be a common topic around the breakfast table or water cooler, it is rarely considered material for more serious consideration. Strips, Toons, and Bluesies gives comics the serious attention they deserve. Rather than focusing on the punch lines, this book celebrates the rich visual and verbal pictures comics have brought to both mass and marginalized audiences. It shows how these worksfrom fteenth-century woodcuts to Depression-era bluesies to contemporary zinesmake passionate statements about what is most important in their creators' lives.

The authors address such key issues as the intertwined origins of comics and animation; the sex, violence, and taboo-breaking of 200 years of underground comics; the popular "Locas" stories of Jaime Hernandez's "Love and Rockets;" and the political and racial portrayals of African Americans in 1960s comics. The book also includes a twenty- ve-page history of comics from 1380 to today, a thorough and novel approach to the genre."

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  • Title Strips, Toons, and Bluesies: Essays in Comics and Culture
  • Author D. B. Dowd (Editor); Todd Hignite; Todd Hignite (Editor)
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition number 1st
  • Edition 1
  • Pages 111
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Princeton Architectural Press
  • Date October 2006
  • Illustrated Yes
  • ISBN 9781568986210 / 1568986211
  • Weight 1.07 lbs (0.49 kg)
  • Dimensions 10.98 x 7.54 x 0.43 in (27.89 x 19.15 x 1.09 cm)
  • Library of Congress subjects Comic books, strips, etc - History and
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2006008315
  • Dewey Decimal Code 741.509

About the author

D. B. Dowd is a professor of art at the Sam Fox School of Design and Visual Arts, Washington University in St. Louis and an illustrator and director at Ulcer City Studio. He lives in St. Louis, Missouri.
Todd Hignite is founding editor of Comic Art magazine and author of In the Studio: Visits with Contemporary Cartoonists. He lives in St. Louis, Missouri.
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