Author: Berghahn Journals
Publisher: Berghahn Books
E-ISSN: 1754-3800|7|1|1-5
ISSN: 1754-3797
Source: European Comic Art, Vol.7, Iss.1, 2014-03, pp. : 1-5
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Abstract
Comics, and in particular European comics, has always engaged with the social world, whether to contest or to uphold its norms. From its antecedents in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century caricature, it inherited a strong current of satire and critique. In the adventure genre that marked the emergence of European comics in its modern form in the first part of the twentieth century, engagement with the world was no less evident, but most often served, rather, to defend the dominant order, colonial or anti-communist, as heroes set off to right wrongs in
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