American comics are both a remarkable reflection and harbinger of happenings in American life. Comics have conquered America in ways high and low, superficial to profound, from multiplexes to television screens to convention halls, best seller lists, Pulitzer Prize-winning titles and MacArthur fellowship recipients. In our core book, "American Comics, A History," award-winning author Jeremy Dauber, a Columbia professor, takes us through their incredible history from the Civil War and Cartoonist Thomas Nast, the golden age of newspaper comic strips and the first superhero boom, the moral panic of the Eisenhower era, The Marvel Comics revolution, the underground comix movement of the 60's and 70's, and finally into the twenty first century, with the grim and gritty Dark Knights and Watchmen alongside the brilliant rise of the graphic novel. Dauber's story shows not only how comics have changed over the decades but how American politics and culture have changed them. This SDG will be a rich chronicle of the last 150 years of American History through the lens of its comic strips, political cartoons, superheroes, graphic novels and more.
American Comics-Their History and Ours
