Between 1949 and 1955 Britain was swept by a rising tide of panic about “American-style” or “horror” comics. The British press cried out in alarm: “Now Ban This Filth That Poisons Our Children,” ...

Comics and cartoons are ingrained in American life.

One critic has called comic books “crude, unimaginative, banal, vulgar, ultimately corrupting. ” They have been regarded with considerable suspicion ...

This well-focused and perceptive analysis of a phenomenon in our popular culture—the new respectability of the comic book form—argues that the comics medium has a productive tradition of telling true ...