The greatest comic book of all time : symbolic capital and the field of American comic books

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The greatest comic book of all time : symbolic capital and the field of American comic books

Bart Beaty, Benjamin Woo

(Palgrave studies in comics and graphic novels)(Palgrave pivot)

Palgrave Macmillan, c2016

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Includes index

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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.

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?.- 12Hicksville by Dylan Horrocks?.

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