Review of new Wurlitzer

[Dave Monroe]

On 4/10/08, rich <richard.romeo at gmail.com> wrote:

> I'm quite enjoying David Hadju's The Ten Percent Plague--the story of
> comic books from its beginnings to its battles with censors
> (religious, political anti-communism, social class-conscious morons,
> etc)  in the 50s.
>
> reading it makes you love Bill Gaines and company even more

Just read that myself, good, interesteing esp. on Estes Kefauver,
though I wish there'd have been more illustrations.  And see as well,
e.g., ...

Barker, Martin.  A Haunt of Fears:
   The Strange History of the British Horror Comics Campaign.
   Jackson: UP of Mississippi, 1992.

http://www.upress.state.ms.us/books/947
http://books.google.com/books?id=lupBCb1lcokC

Nyberg, Amy Kiste.  Seal of Approval:
    The History of the Comics Code. Jackson: UP of MS, 1998.

http://www.upress.state.ms.us/books/647
http://books.google.com/books?id=bhxYs1T-7LkC

And, while not QUITE on topic, worthwhile nonetheless ...

Wolk, Douglas.  Reading Comics:
   How Graphic Novels Work and What They Mean
   Cambridge, MA: Da Capo, 2007.

http://www.perseusbooksgroup.com/dacapo/book_detail.jsp?isbn=0306815095

... esp. for the ch. on Dave Sim's Cerebus.  Crazy ...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cerebus_the_Aardvark
http://www.americanpopularculture.com/journal/articles/spring_2003/rothenberg.htm

Meanwhile, coming, uh, eventually to a theater near you ...

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0409459/
http://watchmenmovie.warnerbros.com/
http://www.watchmencomicmovie.com/

One last thing to live for ...