Boom Splat Comics And Violence Softcover

Offering enlightening essays on the enduring and compelling functions of violence in comics, BOOM! SPLAT! includes an examination of histories of violence, forms of violence, modes and systems of violence, and political and social violence. Chapters focus on well-known comics and comics creators, such as Steve Ditko, Hulk, X-Men, and the Marvel universe, to newspaper cartoon strips, postwar graphic novels, revolution, civil rights, trauma, #blacklivesmatter, and more.