Comics and Ideology (Popular Culture and Everyday Life)
The Editors: Matthew P. McAllister is Associate Professor in the Department of Communication Studies at Virginia Tech. He is the author ofThe Commercialization of American Culture: New Advertising, Control and Democracy.Edward H. Sewell, Jr. is Associate Professor in the Department of Communication Studies at Virginia Tech. He has written about comics and editorial cartoons in a variety of edited volumes and scholarly journals.Ian Gordon is Associate Professor in the American Studies Centre, National University of Singapore. He is the author ofComic Strips and Consumer Culture, 1890-1945. He also studies the use of ethnic imagery in American advertising and the cultural role of the United States in the Asia-Pacific region.