{"product_id":"american-comics-9780393635607","title":"American Comics","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe sweeping story of cartoons, comic strips and graphic novels and their century-long hold on the American imagination.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"With encyclopedic knowledge, Jeremy Dauber brilliantly excavates the story of this art form—warts and all—from its origins right up to the twenty-first century, and strikes cartoon gold. For anyone curious about a medium that’s influenced and embedded itself in every part of our culture, \u003cem\u003eAmerican Comics\u003c\/em\u003e is an essential guidebook. If you are already a connoisseur of comics, be prepared to be enlightened anew.\" -- Peter Kuper, award-winning cartoonist and author of Kafkaesque and Heart of Darkness\u003cbr\u003e\"Until now one could only dream of an engaging, analytic history encompassing the entire medium. That sounds like a job for Superman, but Jeremy Dauber has gotten there first…His perceptive, critical overview is enlivened by a jaunty style that bops from the political cartoons of Thomas Nast in the 1860s to the demise of an equally influential gadfly, Mad magazine, in 2018.\" -- Michael Saler - Wall Street Journal\u003cbr\u003e\"[Dauber is] a spry, humorous storyteller… [he] suggests that the story of American comics is ‘right in the middle of its run.’ If so, this is a very readable map of where it has been.\" -- Teddy Jamieson - The Herald","brand":"WW Norton \u0026 Co","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49402010829143,"sku":"9780393635607","price":26.59,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780393635607.jpg?v=1730479131","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/american-comics-9780393635607","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}