{"product_id":"american-comics-9781324036098","title":"American Comics","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe sweeping story of cartoons, comic strips, and graphic novels and their hold on the American imagination\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\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\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\"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\u003cbr\u003e\"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 \u003cem\u003eAmerican Comics.\u003c\/em\u003e\" -- Neil Gaimon","brand":"WW Norton \u0026 Co","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49407422693719,"sku":"9781324036098","price":17.09,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781324036098.jpg?v=1730499337","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/american-comics-9781324036098","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}