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Jews and American comics : an illustrated history of an American art form / edited by Paul Buhle.

Publication | Library Call Number: PN6725 .J49 2008

With three brief essays by Paul Buhle, this book offers readers a pictorial back-story tracing Jewish involvement in comic art from several little-known strips in Yiddish newspapers of the early 20th century through the mid-century origins of the modern comic book and finally to contemporary comic art.

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Format: Book
Published: New York : New Press : Distributed by W.W. Norton, 2008
Locale: USA
United States
Language: English
External Link: Table of contents
Table of contents
Contributor biographical information
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Physical Description: ix, 198 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Contents: Yellow press headliners : Jewish comics in the dailies
Comic book heroes
The underground era
Recovering Jewishness.
Other Authors/Editors: Buhle, Paul, 1944-
ISBN: 9781595583314
1595583319
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 185-195).

Yellow press headliners : Jewish comics in the dailies -- Comic book heroes -- The underground era -- Recovering Jewishness.
Subjects: USA
Comic books, strips, etc--United States--History and criticism.
Comic books, strips, etc--United States.
Jewish cartoonists--United States--Biography.
Jews--United States--Intellectual life.
Jewish wit and humor, Pictorial--History.
American wit and humor, Pictorial--History.
American wit and humor, Pictorial.
Comic books, strips, etc.
Jewish cartoonists.
Jewish wit and humor, Pictorial.
Jews--Intellectual life.
United States.
Biography.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History.
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