Comics and the U.S. South

by Brannon Costello and Qiana J. Whitted

Book Overview

Comics and the U.S. South offers a wide-ranging and long overdue assessment of how life and culture in the United States South is represented in serial comics, graphic novels, newspaper comic strips, and webcomics. Diverting the lens of comics studies from the skyscrapers of Superman's Metropolis or Chris Ware's Chicago to the swamps, backroads, small towns, and cities of the U.S. South, this collection critically examines the pulp genres associated...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1617039454
• ISBN13: 9781617039454
• Release Date: September 2013
• Publisher: University Press of Mississippi
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 1.13 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"