"I'm Just a Comic Book Boy": Essays on the Intersection of Comics and Punk

by Christopher B. Field (Editor), Keegan Lannon (Editor), Michael David MacBride (Editor)

Overview

Comics and the punk movement are inextricably linked--each has a foundational do-it-yourself ethos and a nonconformist spirit defiant of authority. This collection of new essays provides for the first time a thorough analysis of the intersections between comics and punk. The contributors expand the discussion beyond the familiar U.S. and UK scenes to include the influence punk has had on comics produced in other countries, such as Spain and Turkey.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781476634982
Publisher:	McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers
Publication date:	02/14/2019
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	240
File size:	6 MB
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

Christopher B. Field is an associate professor in the languages, literature, and philosophy department at Tennessee State University. His interests include contemporary, 20th-century and early American literature, and popular culture, rhetoric and composition. Keegan Lannon is an adjunct English instructor at Dominican University in River Forest, Illinois, and North Central College in Naperville, Illinois. He has published and presented on comics and narrative theory. Michael David MacBride has taught a variety of English, literature, and humanities courses at universities in and around the Midwest. He lives in Shakopee, Minnesota. Christopher C. Douglas is an instructor at the University of Alabama. His scholarly interests include the creation of commu.nity in fiction, non-human narration, and the history of the novel.
Christopher B. Field is an associate professor in the languages, literature, and philosophy department at Tennessee State University. His interests include contemporary, 20th-century and early American literature, and popular culture, rhetoric and composition.
Keegan Lannon is an adjunct English instructor at Dominican University in River Forest, Illinois, and North Central College in Naperville, Illinois. He has published and presented on comics and narrative theory.
Michael David MacBride has taught a variety of English, literature, and humanities courses at universities in and around the Midwest. He lives in Shakopee, Minnesota.

Table of Contents

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments
Introduction
Part I: Punk Superhero Comics
One Man Artistic Corps: Jack Kirby’s OMAC
as Punk Precursor
Christopher B. Field
Captain America: ­All-American Punk
Jill Dahlman
Part II: Vertigo Punk Comics
No Future: John Constantine, Hellblazer and the ’70s Punk
Rocker in the 21st Century
Spencer Chalifour
“I Hate It Here”: Spider Jerusalem as Punk ­Anti-Hero
Jodie Childers
24-Hour Murder People: The Punk Iconography
in Grant Morrison’s The Invisibles
Keegan Lannon
Anarchy at the Alamo: The Creation of a 21st Century
American ­Punk-Western in Garth Ennis
and Steve Dillon’s Preacher
Russell Weber
Part III: Underground Punk Comics
Aspiring Revolutionaries and “Petty” Conflicts: The Penis
in the Punk Movement and Binky Brown
Michael David MacBride
Reinventing a Carnivalesque Public Sphere: (Re)imagining
and (Re)drawing Madrid in the Long 1970s
Louie Dean ­Valencia-García
Drawing Istanbul’s Asshole: Turkish Punk Comics
Can Yalçinkaya
Part IV: Punk Manga
Bōsōzoku Motorcycle Gangs, the Bubble Economy
and Psychic Children: Reaffirming Giri Through Ōtomo
Katsuhiro’s Akira (1988)
Christopher C. Douglas
Schoolgirls and Sukeban: Representations of Punk Women
in Contemporary Japanese Manga
Alice Vernon
Punk Bodies and the “Do It Yourself” Philosophy
Francesco-Alessio Ursini
About the Contributors
Index