Encyclopedia of Comic Books and Graphic Novels

FUNNY ANIMAL COMICS 237 to fl ood the market with numerous titles in whatever genre was selling well. Timely Comics’ editor, for ...

238 FUNNY ANIMAL COMICS comic books. In his book Seduction of the Innocent (1954), Fredric Wertham estimated that what he called ...

FUNNY ANIMAL COMICS 239 the industry adopted the Comics Code in 1954. Th e central fi gure in that movement, though, grew up lov ...

240 FUNNY ANIMAL COMICS white comics boom took inspiration from the huge success of Th e Teenage Mutant Ninja Tu r t l e s in 19 ...

FUNNY ANIMAL COMICS 241 attempted to draw a funny animal strip, but “my bears [.. .] looked sort of like big mice, and my mice l ...

242 FUNNY ANIMAL COMICS characters, and has also had an animated television series and a long-running comic book series. Th e hi ...

G GAIMAN, NEIL (1960–). Born Neil Richard Gaiman in Portchester, England, Gaiman is a prolifi c writer of comics, short stories, ...

244 GAINES, WILLIAM novels, including Coraline (2002), Th e Wolves in the Walls (2003), and Th e Graveyard Book (2008), many of ...

GAY AND LESBIAN THEMES 245 storylines to less controversial science-fi ction titles, EC Comics stopped publication of all comics ...

246 GAY AND LESBIAN THEMES signifi cant pages of Seduction of the Innocent to homosexuality. Wertham centered his argument on Ba ...

GAY AND LESBIAN THEMES 247 Regarding gay male characters and comics in the 1970s, Gay Heart Th robs #1 became the fi rst exclusi ...

248 GAY AND LESBIAN THEMES Womanews in July 1983. Bechdel began syndicating the strip on her own in 1985. It has since been coll ...

GAY AND LESBIAN THEMES 249 between the characters Deuces Wild and Summer Ice in 1983 in Sabre. Another progressive step was the ...

250 GAY AND LESBIAN THEMES his sexual orientation during the 1980s. In 1987, Northstar was stricken by an illness featuring symp ...

GEMMA BOVERY 251 Th e Gay League. (1998). http://www.gayleague.com/; Th eophano, Teresa. “Comic Strips and Cartoons.” glbtq: An ...

252 GEMMA BOVERY reads Madame Bovary , but Joubert ruins the ending for her.) Joubert is so convinced by the associative power b ...

GHOST RIDER 253 Selected Bibliography: Constable, Liz. “Consuming Realities: Th e Engendering Invisible Violences in Posy Simmon ...

254 GHOST RIDER cursed by simply touching the symbols on an old discarded motorcycle. Th is version of Ghost Rider, though still ...

GHOST WORLD 255 Selected Bibliography: Markstein, Don. Th e Ghost Rider. Don Markstein’s Toonopedia: http://www.toonopedia.com/g ...

256 GHOST WORLD adopt a blasé and crass attitude toward their burgeoning sexualities to cover up their anxieties about their und ...