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Invaders from the North: How
Canada Conquered the Comic Book Universe. By John Bell;
foreword by Seth. Toronto: The Dundurn Group, 2006. 223pp.
Hardcover: ISBN-10: 1550026593 - ISBN-13: 9781550026597
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Library of Congress: PN6731 .B45 2006
Dewey: 741.5/971 22
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Description
Invaders
from the North profiles past and present comic geniuses,
sheds light on unjustly neglected chapters in Canada's pop history, and
demonstrates how this nation has vaulted to the forefront of
international comic art, successfully challenging the long-established
boundaries between high and low culture.
Generously illustrated with colour and
black-and-white comic covers and panels, Invaders from the North
serves up a cheeky, brash, and saucy cavalcade of flamboyant and
outrageous personalities and characters that graphically attest to
Canada's verve and invention in the world of visual storytelling.
Foreword
by Seth ... 9
Acknowledgements ... 11
Introduction ... 13
- Of Brownies and Doo
Dads: The Precursors, 1849-1928 ... 19
- Up, Up, and Away: Dawn
of the Comic Book, 1929-1940 ... 31
- Smashing the Axis:
Canada's Golden Age of Comics, 1941-1946 ... 41
SPOTLIGHT:
Johnny Canuck and the Search for Canadian Superheroes ... 57
- Crackdown on Comics:
The Lean Years, 1947-1966 ... 87
- Harold Hedd and Fuddle
Duddle: The Comix Rebellion, 1967-1974 ... 105
- An Aardvark Leads the
Way: Alternative Visions, 1975-1988 ... 119
SPOTLIGHT:
Chester Brown and the Search for New Narratives ... 139
- The Road to
Palooka-Ville: New Directions, 1989-2006 ... 169
Afterword
... 189
Notes ... 191
Selected Bibliography ... 208
Index ... 214
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