Comics in Wisconsin - Softcover

Buhle, Paul

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0981562035 ISBN 13: 9780981562032

Publisher: Borderland Books, 2009

Synopsis

Who knew? Wisconsin comic artists, editors, and publishers have made both central and fringe contributions to the language, form, and content of comic strips, comic books, and other forms of this popular art. Paul Buhle traces this history, illustrated by more than two hundred reproductions, from “The Gumps” and “Gasoline Alley”—which introduced the continuity of daily life into newspaper “funnies”—to comic book histories of Students for a Democratic Society and the Industrial Workers of the World, alternative press comics that fostered talents like Lynda Barry and James Sturm, and comic adaptations of totemic figures like Howard Zinn and Studs Terkel. Specialists and collectors will treasure this volume, and readers will find themselves educated and vastly entertained.

About this title

About the Author:

Paul Buhle was a senior lecturer at Brown University and in retirement is a returnee to Madison, where he earned a Ph.D. at the University of Wisconsin. His forty published volumes include a dozen comic art volumes, five biographies, and a book series on the victims of the Hollywood Blacklist.

About this edition

• Publisher: Borderland Books
• Publication date: 2009
• ISBN 10: 0981562035
• ISBN 13: 9780981562032
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 120