Drawing on comic strip characters such as Buster Brown, Winnie Winkle, and Superman, Ian Gordon shows how, in addition to embellishing a wide array of goods wit

Originally published in France and long sought in English translation, Jean-Paul Gabilliet's Of Comics and Men: A Cultural History of American Comic Books docum

This book looks at the humor that artists and editors believed would have appeal in four different countries. Ian Gordon explains how similar humor played out i

Emerging just as Americans were beginning to define themselves less by what they made and believed and more by what they bought, comic strips were from the outs

With contributions by: Leonie Brialey, MJ Clarke, Roy T. Cook, Joseph J. Darowski, Ian Gordon, Gene Kannenberg Jr., Christopher P. Lehman, Anne C. McCarthy, Ben