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Article: British Comics: A Cultural History
Posted: February 5, 2012
As I found when compiling the book Great British Comics back in 2006, British comics is a vast landscape which any single volume would struggle to map out fully and whose boundaries easily blur, most notably with the American comic book industry. The problem is that, the same few comics, characters and creators have kept getting the lion’s share of the analysis leaving huge areas languishing. Aside from the works of Martin Barker and Roger Sabin, James Chapman, author of British Comics: A Cultural History, rightly points out the paucity of scholarly research until now into British comics, which lags behind America or France and Belgium for example. Read my review of Chapman’s new study here…
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