Of comics and men
Subtitle: a cultural history of American comic books
By: Jean-Paul Gabilliet ; translated by Bart Beaty and Nick Nguyen.
Contributors: Beaty, Bart.; Nguyen, Nick.
Publisher: University Press of Mississippi
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Jackson
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781604732672
Subjects: Comic books, strips, etc. -- United States -- History and criticism
Work titles: Des Comics et des hommes.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: From comics to comic books (1842 1936); title: The beginnings of an industry: comics magazines; title: (1936 1940); title: Comic books at war (1940 1945); title: Ever more the apogee and the fall (1945 1954); title: Decline and rebirth (1955 1962); title: The age of innovation (1963 1969); title: Research and development by trial and error; title: (1969 1979); title: The recovery of the 1980s (1980 1993); title: The end of a century and the beginning of a new century (1993- ) production; title: The business of comic books; title: The creators; title: The readers; title: Calls for censorship; title: Internal consecration; title: External consecration; title: Conclusion; title: Self-regulating codes of the comic book industry.