The Other 1980s: Reframing Comics' Crucial Decade Costello Brannon
The Other 1980s: Reframing Comics' Crucial Decade Costello Brannon Fans and scholars have long regarded the 1980s as a significant turning point in the history of comics in the United States, but…
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The Other 1980s: Reframing Comics' Crucial Decade Costello Brannon
Fans and scholars have long regarded the 1980s as a significant turning point in the history of comics in the United States, but most critical discussions of the period still focus on books from prominent creators such as Frank Miller, Alan Moore, and Art Spiegelman, eclipsing the work of others who also played a key role in shaping comics as we know them today. The Other 1980s: Reframing Comics' Crucial Decade offers a more complicated and multivalent picture of this robust era of ambitious comics publishing.The twenty essays in The Other 1980s illuminate many works hailed as innovative in their day that have nonetheless fallen from critical view, partly because they challenge the contours of conventional comics studies scholarship: open-ended serials that eschew the graphic-novel format beloved by literature departments; sprawling superhero narratives with no