Author : Nate Powell
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 18,76 MB
Release : 2019
Category :
ISBN : 9781684065042
The Unknown Anti-war Comics!
Nate Powell
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The Unknown Anti-War Comics!
Steve Ditko
Author : Steve Ditko
Publisher : National Geographic Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 14,35 MB
Release : 2019-01-08
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN : 1684051789
An action-oriented medium, comics have long used wars--real and fictional--as narrative fodder, often with a strong message attached. Buried in rare comics published during the Cold War were powerful war, fantasy, and sci-fi stories that strongly condemned war and the bomb, boldly calling for peace. While a few comics of the time portrayed the horrors of war, the more blatant anti-war stories were largely unappreciated or so cloaked in metaphor that they went unnoticed by contemporary audiences. Today, we can more fully appreciate the efforts of the fine writers and cartoonists who were crying out for peace in their--and our--time. Journey back with us now, and discover the secret, surprising history of anti-war comics with this marvelously curated collection.
Omega
Jonathan Lethem
Author : Jonathan Lethem
Publisher : Marvel Comics Group
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 17,18 MB
Release : 2008
Category : Extraterrestrial beings
ISBN : 9780785119432
Presents the first ten volumes of the "Omega: The Unknown" comic, which features the adventures of an alien superhero and an orphaned teenage boy who shares his destiny.
Is This Tomorrow
Author :
Publisher :
Page : 52 pages
File Size : 38,94 MB
Release : 2016
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN : 9781934044179
Originally published in the midst of the cold war, Is This Tomorrow is a classic example of red scare propaganda. The story envisions a scenario in which the Soviet Union orders American communists to overthrow the US Government. Charles Schulz contributed to the artwork throughout the issue. Reprinted here for the first time in 70 years.
DC Goes to War
Robert Kanigher
Author : Robert Kanigher
Publisher : DC Comics
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 13,14 MB
Release : 2020-06-02
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN : 1779500165
Catch a glimpse of what it was like to live through two World Wars through the eyes of characters including Sgt. Rock, Enemy Ace, the Boy Commandos, Blackhawk, and many others. From tales of rebellion to surviving the battlefield, this title collects some of the greatest war stories of their time. Collects Sgt. Rock Special #2, Enemy Ace: War in Heaven #1-2, Showcase #57, Our Army at War #67, #83, #233, and #235, Boy Commandos #1, Star Spangled War Stories #87 and #183, All-American Comics #48, Weird War Tales #3 (1972), G.I. Combat #87, Our Fighting Forces #49 and #102, The Losers Special #1, and Military Comics #1.
The Art of Controversy
Victor S Navasky
Author : Victor S Navasky
Publisher : Knopf
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 28,22 MB
Release : 2013-04-09
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0307962148
A lavishly illustrated, witty, and original look at the awesome power of the political cartoon throughout history to enrage, provoke, and amuse. As a former editor of The New York Times Magazine and the longtime editor of The Nation, Victor S. Navasky knows just how transformative—and incendiary—cartoons can be. Here Navasky guides readers through some of the greatest cartoons ever created, including those by George Grosz, David Levine, Herblock, Honoré Daumier, and Ralph Steadman. He recounts how cartoonists and caricaturists have been censored, threatened, incarcerated, and even murdered for their art, and asks what makes this art form, too often dismissed as trivial, so uniquely poised to affect our minds and our hearts. Drawing on his own encounters with would-be censors, interviews with cartoonists, and historical archives from cartoon museums across the globe, Navasky examines the political cartoon as both art and polemic over the centuries. We see afresh images most celebrated for their artistic merit (Picasso's Guernica, Goya's "Duendecitos"), images that provoked outrage (the 2008 Barry Blitt New Yorker cover, which depicted the Obamas as a Muslim and a Black Power militant fist-bumping in the Oval Office), and those that have dictated public discourse (Herblock’s defining portraits of McCarthyism, the Nazi periodical Der Stürmer’s anti-Semitic caricatures). Navasky ties together these and other superlative genre examples to reveal how political cartoons have been not only capturing the zeitgeist throughout history but shaping it as well—and how the most powerful cartoons retain the ability to shock, gall, and inspire long after their creation. Here Victor S. Navasky brilliantly illuminates the true power of one of our most enduringly vital forms of artistic expression.
Pulp Empire
Paul S. Hirsch
Author : Paul S. Hirsch
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 43,22 MB
Release : 2024-06-05
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN : 0226829464
Winner of the Popular Culture Association's Ray and Pat Browne Award for Best Book in Popular or American Culture In the 1940s and ’50s, comic books were some of the most popular—and most unfiltered—entertainment in the United States. Publishers sold hundreds of millions of copies a year of violent, racist, and luridly sexual comics to Americans of all ages until a 1954 Senate investigation led to a censorship code that nearly destroyed the industry. But this was far from the first time the US government actively involved itself with comics—it was simply the most dramatic manifestation of a long, strange relationship between high-level policy makers and a medium that even artists and writers often dismissed as a creative sewer. In Pulp Empire, Paul S. Hirsch uncovers the gripping untold story of how the US government both attacked and appropriated comic books to help wage World War II and the Cold War, promote official—and clandestine—foreign policy and deflect global critiques of American racism. As Hirsch details, during World War II—and the concurrent golden age of comic books—government agencies worked directly with comic book publishers to stoke hatred for the Axis powers while simultaneously attempting to dispel racial tensions at home. Later, as the Cold War defense industry ballooned—and as comic book sales reached historic heights—the government again turned to the medium, this time trying to win hearts and minds in the decolonizing world through cartoon propaganda. Hirsch’s groundbreaking research weaves together a wealth of previously classified material, including secret wartime records, official legislative documents, and caches of personal papers. His book explores the uneasy contradiction of how comics were both vital expressions of American freedom and unsettling glimpses into the national id—scourged and repressed on the one hand and deployed as official propaganda on the other. Pulp Empire is a riveting illumination of underexplored chapters in the histories of comic books, foreign policy, and race.
Anti-Gone
Connor Willumsen
Author : Connor Willumsen
Publisher :
Page : 120 pages
File Size : 19,72 MB
Release : 2017-09-12
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN : 9781927668511
Join an oneiric odyssey through a slacker second life.
Blazing Combat
Archie Goodwin
Author : Archie Goodwin
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,51 MB
Release : 2018
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN : 9781683960843
This reprint of the all-star war-comics anthology is an expanded edition, with a cover gallery featuring all of Frazetta's painted covers and exclusive interviews with Goodwin and publisher James Warren.
Reefer Madness
Various
Author : Various
Publisher : Dark Horse Comics
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 37,12 MB
Release : 2018-04-17
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN : 1630087750
Degradation! Crime! Madness! Hysteria surrounded marijuana as a perceived gateway drug from the 1930's to the 1950's and beyond. Adventure Comics, by Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster, and works by Frank Frazetta, Jerry Robinson, Jack Kirby, and many more, reveal the social reaction to this era of "Reefer Madness". Like the anti-drug propaganda film, these stories range from comically misinformed to soberly concerned about the influence of Mary Jane on the youth of America. Eisner and Harvey Award winner Craig Yoe brings us his newest collection of wacky, wild, and culturally relevant comics. See how marijuana was perceived in the days of ignorance before it was legalized by the visionary people of Oregon, Washington, and Colorado! See marijuana demonized as a "Satan's cigarettes" in 1950's comics!