The Greatest Comic Book of All Time: Symbolic Capital and the Field of American Comic Books

Bart Beaty
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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.
Genres: ComicsCriticismNonfictionAcademic
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