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The sweeping story of cartoons, comic strips, and graphic novels and their hold on the American imagination

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"[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
"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
"An entertaining and richly detailed new history of comics…[B]oth opinionated and frequently funny…[T]he story Dauber tells is a mighty one." -- Michael Tisserand - New York Times Book Review
"The first book about comics that covers events I was there for, where I’m not shaking my head at how wrong it is. A really good history of all the different strands of comics that came together over the last hundred and twenty years to become American Comics." -- Neil Gaimon

American Comics

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    A Paperback / softback by Jeremy Dauber

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      Publisher WW Norton & Co
      Published 18 November 2022
      ISBN-13 9781324036098
      978-1324036098
      ISBN-10 1324036095
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      Description

      Book Synopsis
      The sweeping story of cartoons, comic strips, and graphic novels and their hold on the American imagination

      Trade Review
      "[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
      "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
      "An entertaining and richly detailed new history of comics…[B]oth opinionated and frequently funny…[T]he story Dauber tells is a mighty one." -- Michael Tisserand - New York Times Book Review
      "The first book about comics that covers events I was there for, where I’m not shaking my head at how wrong it is. A really good history of all the different strands of comics that came together over the last hundred and twenty years to become American Comics." -- Neil Gaimon

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