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Books > Sport & Leisure > Humour > Cartoons & comic strips
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Short Ribs
(Paperback)
David J Hardwicke; Illustrated by Arlene Doell
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R433
R405
Discovery Miles 4 050
Save R28 (6%)
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GREEN HUMOUR FOR A GREYING PLANET is a curation of gag cartoons and
comic strips based exclusively on wildlife and nature, perhaps the
first of its kind. At a time when global warming, wildlife crimes
and man-animal conflicts are at their worst, 'Green Humour' is sure
to provide its readers some much needed comic relief. A
comprehensive and satirical take on various aspects of the natural
world and the threats to its conservation, this book will appeal to
both the scientifically inclined readers as well as the general
readers.
Collecting the unparalleled works of Burne Hogarth on one of the
most influential comic strips of all time, Tarzan and The Lost
Tribes is the penultimate entry in Tarzan: The Complete Burne
Hogarth Comic Strip Library, authorized by the Edgar Rice Burroughs
Estate. Bringing together the strips from 1947-1949 and lavishly
reproduced in full colour, this is the most complete collection of
Hogarth s highly sought-after Tarzan Sunday strips available."
From the moment Captain America punched Hitler in the jaw, comic
books have always been political, and whether it is Marvel's
chairman Ike Perlmutter making a campaign contribution to Donald
Trump in 2016 or Marvel's character Howard the Duck running for
president during America's bicentennial in 1976, the politics of
comics have overlapped with the politics of campaigns and
governance. Pop culture opens avenues for people to declare their
participation in a collective project and helps them to shape their
understandings of civic responsibility, leadership, communal
history, and present concerns. Politics in the Gutters: American
Politicians and Elections in Comic Book Media opens with an
examination of campaign comic books used by the likes of Herbert
Hoover and Harry S. Truman, follows the rise of political
counterculture comix of the 1960s, and continues on to the graphic
novel version of the 9/11 Report and the cottage industry of Sarah
Palin comics. It ends with a consideration of comparisons to Donald
Trump as a supervillain and a look at comics connections to the
pandemic and protests that marked the 2020 election year. More than
just escapist entertainment, comics offer a popular yet complicated
vision of the American political tableau. Politics in the Gutters
considers the political myths, moments, and mimeses, in comic
books-from nonfiction to science fiction, superhero to
supernatural, serious to satirical, golden age to present day-to
consider how they represent, re-present, underpin, and/or undermine
ideas and ideals about American electoral politics.
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