Encyclopedia of Comic Books and Graphic Novels

718 YOUTH CULTURE IN COMICS high school narrative. Jughead is the faithful and funny friend who is more interested in food than ...

YOUTH CULTURE IN COMICS 719 During the 1930s, 1940s, and 1950s comic books were ever-present in the lives of many children and t ...

720 YOUTH CULTURE IN COMICS social changes. Th e youth of the time was a complex and confused one but the storylines inherited f ...

YOUTH CULTURE IN COMICS 721 and independent artists that fl ourished in the 1980s and 1990s. It also allowed authors to experime ...

722 YOUTH CULTURE IN COMICS the main themes of the stories are a product of a personal process of introspection and sharing that ...

YOUTH CULTURE IN COMICS 723 sexuality, identity and maturing, but the peculiarities of most protagonists and the setting make th ...

724 Y: THE LAST MAN younger readers, Tsunami and Marvel Next, this title represents a diff erent take on the superhero theme. Th ...

Y: THE LAST MAN 725 to concealing himself with a cloak, hood and gas mask and using a slight falsetto when talking to the women ...

726 Y: THE LAST MAN to have sex with him. While on his travels, Yorick wants to stay faithful to Beth, and the one encounter he ...

Z ZAP was the best-known and most infl uential underground comic book, featuring taboo-breaking work by the movement’s key fi gu ...

728 ZAP its reliance on “comic Negroes,” as well as a genuinely shocking fake ad for canned “nigger hearts” in the fi rst issue ...

ZAP 729 Zap #4, which contained Crumb’s “Joe Blow,” a simultaneously cute and explicit depiction of an incestuous all-American f ...

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Selected General Resources Atlas Tales. Accessed September 20, 2009. http://www.atlastales.com/. Benton, Mike. Masters of Imagin ...

732 SELECTED GENERAL RESOURCES Comics Scholarship Annotated Bibliographies. Accessed September 20, 2009. http:// http://www.comi ...

SELECTED GENERAL RESOURCES 733 Gravett, Paul. Graphic Novels, Stories to Change Your Life. New York: Collins Design, 2005. Groen ...

734 SELECTED GENERAL RESOURCES Martin, Douglas. “Gil Kane, Comic-Book Artist, Is Dead at 73.” New York Times, February 3, 2000. ...

SELECTED GENERAL RESOURCES 735 Strömberg, Fredrik. Black Images in the Comics: A Visual History. Seattle: Fantagraphics Books, 2 ...

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About the Editor and the Contributors Editor M. Keith Booker is the James E. and Ellen Wadley Professor of English at the Uni- v ...