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Comics: The Call and the Cost

True Stories of Creators' Fight to Make Art and a Living with Comic Books

C. J. Standal
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Duration
8h 32m
Year
2026
Language
English
Publisher
CJSP

About

Discover the reason comic creators toil away over ink stained pages, even when circumstances don't reward that hard work.
This is what happens when comics meet the real world, coming face to face with politics, war, and big business. Witness creators navigate their passion and careers when faced with the intersection between art and commerce.
This stellar collection includes these essays:
1) The Cost of Comics: A History of the Comic Book Labor Movement
2) Marge Buell and Little Lulu: Women Warriors - America's Early Female Cartoonist Entrepreneur and Her Feminist Creation
3) Hector Oesterheld: Comics Own Martyr
4) David Mazzucchelli Walks Away from Superheroic Success for Indie Art
5) Jeff Smith and Bone: A Little Help from My Friends
6) A License to Cartoon: Art and Capitalism in the Works of Schulz, Davis, and Watterson
7) Epilogue or Why I Write: A Justification of Rejection, Torture, and Bliss

Related Subjects

  • General
  • History
  • Adult Nonfiction
  • Comics & Graphic Novels
  • Literary Criticism

Artists

C. J. StandalAuthor
Nancy BoberReader