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Witek, Joseph. Comic Books as History: The Narrative Art of Jack Jackson, Art Spiegelman, and Harvey Pekar. Studies in popular culture. Jackson and London: UP of Mississippi, 1989. ISBN 0878054057 (cloth), 0878054065 (paper).

  • Figures . . . xi
  • Preface . . . xiii
  • Introduction . . . 3
  1. Comic Books as History: The First Shot at Fort Sumpter . . . 13
  2. The Underground Roots of Fact-Based Comics . . . 48
  3. From Violation to Education: Jaxon's Comic-Book Histories . . . 58
  4. History and Talking Animals: Art Spiegelman's Maus . . . 96
  5. "You Can Do Anything with Words and Pictures": Harvey Pekar's American Splendor . . . 121
  • Bibliography . . . 157
  • Index . . . 161



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