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Dates:
1950s-1990s
Description:

Underground and Independent Comics, Comix, and Graphic Novels: Volume 1 covers major works from North America and Europe, beginning with the first underground comix from the 1950’s and continuing through to modern sequential artists. Volume 2 expands on the debut database by offering an additional 100,000 pages of important, rare, and hard-to-find works, scholarly writings, and more. It adds extensive coverage of the pre-Comics Code era horror, crime, romance, and war comics that fueled the backlash leading to the advent of the Comics Code.

Database Type: Archival Collections Interface Language: English Materials Language: English Subject: African American Studies, African Studies, Art & Architecture, Asian American Studies, Black Studies, Chicana & Chicano Studies, Communication, East Asian Studies, Eastern and Central European Studies, English, Feminist Studies, Film & Media Studies, French Studies, Gender Studies, German Studies, History (U.S.), History (World), Islamic Studies, Italian Studies, Japanese Studies, Jewish Studies, Language, Latin American & Iberian Studies, LGBT Studies, Literary Criticism, Literature, Middle Eastern Studies, Military Science, Native American Studies, Primary Sources, Slavic Studies, Women's Studies, Writing Broad Category: Area Studies, Arts, Ethnic & Gender Studies, Humanities, Languages & Literatures, Multidisciplinary