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The Greatest Comic Book of All Time

Symbolic Capital and the Field of American Comic Books

Part of the book series: Palgrave Studies in Comics and Graphic Novels (PSCGN)

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Table of contents (12 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xi
  2. What If the Greatest Comic Book of All Time Were…

    • Bart Beaty, Benjamin Woo
    Pages 1-16
  3. Maus by Art Spiegelman?

    • Bart Beaty, Benjamin Woo
    Pages 17-26
  4. A Short Story by Robert Crumb?

    • Bart Beaty, Benjamin Woo
    Pages 27-41
  5. A Superhero Story by Jack Kirby?

    • Bart Beaty, Benjamin Woo
    Pages 43-52
  6. Written by Alan Moore?

    • Bart Beaty, Benjamin Woo
    Pages 53-64
  7. The Cage by Martin Vaughn-James

    • Bart Beaty, Benjamin Woo
    Pages 65-72
  8. By Rob Liefeld?

    • Bart Beaty, Benjamin Woo
    Pages 73-84
  9. An Archie Comic?

    • Bart Beaty, Benjamin Woo
    Pages 85-95
  10. Not by a White Man?

    • Bart Beaty, Benjamin Woo
    Pages 97-107
  11. Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi?

    • Bart Beaty, Benjamin Woo
    Pages 109-119
  12. Dave Sim’s Cerebus?

    • Bart Beaty, Benjamin Woo
    Pages 121-131
  13. Hicksville by Dylan Horrocks?

    • Bart Beaty, Benjamin Woo
    Pages 133-142
  14. Back Matter

    Pages 143-156

About this book

Bart Beaty and Benjamin Woo work to historicize why it is that certain works or creators have come to define the notion of a "quality comic book," while other works and creators have been left at the fringes of critical analysis.                                                                                                                                                   

Reviews

“I would unhesitatingly recommend The Greatest Comic Book of All Time as one of the most important recent publications in comics studies. … professional comics scholars of every stripe should read it. … no one has done a better job than Beaty and Woo of showing us just how much bigger our playground could be.” (Ben Saunders, Inks The Journal of the Comics Studies Society, Vol. 1 (2), 2017)

                                                                                                         

Authors and Affiliations

  • University of Calgary, Calgary, Canada

    Bart Beaty

  • Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada

    Benjamin Woo

About the authors

Bart Beaty is Professor of English at the University of Calgary, Canada. Among other works, he is the author of Twelve-Cent Archie, Comics Versus Art, and Unpopular Culture.


Benjamin Woo is Assistant Professor in the School of Journalism and Communication at Carleton University, Canada. His research examines contemporary geek media cultures, with a particular focus on the producers, institutions, and audiences oriented to comics and graphic novels.
                                                                                                                                           

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