www.doorway.ru: Twelve-Cent Archie (Hardback): Language: English. Brand new Book. For over seventy-five years, Archie and the gang at Riverdale High have been America's most iconic teenagers, delighting generations of readers with their never-ending exploits. But despite their ubiquity, Archie comics have been relatively ignored by scholars - until www.doorway.ru-Cent Archie is not only the first. · Bart Beaty has brought his considerable professorial superpowers to bear on this subject and has come up with the most original take on Archie comics that you are likely to read. Beaty zeroes in on the s, the "twelve cent era," when the regular comic books (not the double or /5. Twelve-Cent Archie is not only the first scholarly study of the Archie comic, it is an innovative creative work in its own right. Inspired by Archie’s own concise storytelling format, renowned comics scholar Bart Beaty divides the book into a hundred short chapters, each devoted to a different aspect of the Archie comics. Fans of the comics will be thrilled to read in-depth examinations of their favorite characters /5(20).
I am the author of seven monographs: Fredric Wertham and the Critique of Mass Culture (), Canadian Television Today (with Rebecca Sullivan, ), Unpopular Culture: Transforming the European Comic Book in the s (), David Cronenberg's A History of Violence (), Comics Versus Art (), and Twelve-Cent Archie (; second. Twelve Cent Archie is a detailed study of the period between and , the commercial peak of the book and its various spinoffs, all of which sold between a quarter- and a half-million copies every month. For Beaty, Archie's "interrelated short story comics are an alternative to literary graphic novels," worthy of study not just for. Canadian comics scholar Bart Beaty admits he had "something of a political motivation" for spending the last year of his life tracking down more than rare While Twelve-Cent Archie looks.
Beaty chose the twelve-cent period in part because Archie’s most talented artists — Bob Bolling, Dan DeCarlo, Harry Lucey, and Samm Schwartz — intersect there. As Beaty writes: “Archie is like the air – he is everywhere, but he is very little remarked upon.” Twelve Cent Archie is a detailed study of the period between and , the commercial peak of the book and its various spinoffs, all of which sold between a quarter- and a half-million copies every month. For Beaty, Archie’s “interrelated short story comics are an alternative to literary graphic novels,” worthy of study not just for what they reveal about their readership, but. Septem, PM #3 Last Edit: Septem, PM by DeCarlo Rules. I finished re-reading TWELVE-CENT ARCHIE. Bart Beaty's particular bias becomes understandable only in light of considering the last chapter, where he talks about how he first discovered Archie Comics as a kid.
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