EC Comics: Race, Shock, and Social Protest
Qiana Whitted, "EC Comics: Race, Shock, and Social Protest "
English | ISBN: 0813566312 | 2019 | 196 pages | EPUB | 3 MB
English | ISBN: 0813566312 | 2019 | 196 pages | EPUB | 3 MB
2020 Eisner Award for Best Academic/Scholarly Work
Entertaining Comics Group (EC Comics) is perhaps best-known today for lurid horror comics like Tales from the Crypt and for a publication that long outlived the company’s other titles, Mad magazine. But during its heyday in the early 1950s, EC was also an early innovator in another genre of comics: the so-called “preachies,” socially conscious stories that boldly challenged the conservatism and conformity of Eisenhower-era America.
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