The Superhero Reader

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Contribution by:

Hatfield, Charles
Brooker, Will
Brown, Jeffrey A.
Bukatman, Scott
Cawelti, John G.
Coogan, Peter
Feiffer, Jules
Jenkins, Henry
Jewett, Robert
Jones, Gerard
Klock, Geoff
Kukkonen, Karin
Lawrence, John Shelton
Medhurst, Andy
Nama, Adilifu
Ong, Walter J.
Palmer, Lorrie
Reynolds, Richard
Robbins, Trina
Robinson, Lillian
Rollin, Roger B.
Steinem, Gloria
Stuller, Jennifer
Wertham, Fredric
Wylie, Philip

Editor:

Hatfield, Charles
Heer, Jeet
Worcester, Kent

ISBN:

978-1-61703-803-7

Publication Date:

Jun 2013

Publisher:

University Press of Mississippi

Book Format:

Ebook

List Price:

USD $30.00USD $30.00

Book Description:

A full exploration of the history, politics, and aesthetics of the superhero genre

Book Details

Pages:	368
Detailed Subjects:	Literary Criticism / Comics & Graphic Novels Literary Criticism / Subjects & Themes / General

Author Biography

(Contribution by)

Jules Feiffer was born on January 26, 1929. While working as a cartoonist, his work appeared in The New Yorker, Esquire, Playboy, The Nation, and The New York Times. He won a Pulitzer Prize for his editorial cartooning in The Village Voice in 1986. His other awards include a George Polk Award for his cartoons; an Obie Award for the play Little Murders; an Oscar for the anti-military short subject animation, Munro; and Lifetime Achievement Awards from the Writers Guild of America and the National Cartoonist Society.

He is currently focusing on writing and illustrating books for children and young adults including The Man in the Ceiling, A Room with a Zoo and Bark, George! He has been a professor at the Yale School of Drama, Northwestern University, Dartmouth, and Stony Brook Southampton College.

Feiffer has been honored with major retrospectives at the New York Historical Society, the Library of Congress and The School of Visual Arts.

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