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Showing 1 to 4 of 4 for “"british comics"”.
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Comics and the Carnivalesque: The Daily Mirror, Jane, and the birth of adult British newspaper strips.
… examines the development of adult-oriented comics in British popular newspapers, covering the years from 1881 to 1945. It uses the strip Jane as a vehicle through which to understand how adult daily newspaper strips evolved, positioning their story both alongside the concurrent development …
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Men of Steel, Cups of Tea: Transatlantic Narratives and Exchange in Contemporary Comics
This study investigates comics that have been produced by three British writers, John Wagner, Garth Ennis and Grant Morrison, for the American comics industry, alongside comics produced for the British comics industry that focus on America or are influenced by American popular culture. The aim is …
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Secret Identity: Reassessing Jack B. Yeats as a Comic Strip Artist
… the Irish painter Jack B. Yeats for a number of British publications between c. 1893 and 1917. The thesis seeks to identify and analyse the corpus of his previously unexamined work, positioning it in relation to contemporaneous media, entertainment and popular culture, as well as to the early …
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Of Gods and Girls: The Teen Superheroine in British and American Girls' Comics from 1940-1984
… superheroine (the super-girl) across two comics cultures: the United States of America (US) and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (UK/Britain). It considers comics from 1940 to 1984, and its focus are those super-girls who appeared in girls’ comics, or comics which …