Trischa Goodnow, Monroe, Oregon, USA is a
professor of speech communication in the School of Arts and
Communication at Oregon State University and has published books on
parliamentary debate and The Daily Show with Jon Stewart.
James J. Kimble, East Hanover, New Jersey, USA
associate professor of communication and the arts at Seton Hall
University, is the author of Mobilizing the Home Front: War Bonds
and Domestic Propaganda and Prairie Forge: The Extraordinary Story
of the Nebraska Scrap Metal Drive of World War II, as well as the
writer and co-producer of the feature documentary Scrappers: How
the Heartland Won World War II.
The 10 Cent War revisits the iconic conventions of the World War II
comic book--the pin-up girl heroine, the demonized Japanese
antagonist, and the titular male superhero and his
boyish-but-stalwart sidekick--and demonstrates that everything we
think we already know about Golden Age comics needs reassessment.
The contributing scholars provide fascinating close-readings of
both famous and obscure works, placing them in historical context
and showing that these 'funnybooks' still have much to teach us
about war, propaganda, and race and gender relations that remains
relevant to our own time.--Marc DiPaolo, author of War, Politics,
and Superheroes: Ethics and Propaganda in Comics and Film
The 10 Cent War, edited by communication professors Trischa Goodnow
and James Kimble, presents a formidable collection of essays
exploring comics production as a source of relentless propaganda.
Goodnow and Kimble's introduction is arguably the most succint and
digestible summary of WWII-era American comics published to date,
complete with a helpful overview of each essay.--Jarret Keene
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