Classics and Comics

by Eric Shanower, C.W. Marshall, George Kovacs, et al.

Book Overview

Since at least 1939, when daily-strip caveman Alley Oop time-traveled to the Trojan War, comics have been drawing (on) material from Greek and Roman myth, literature and history. At times the connection is cosmetic-as perhaps with Wonder Woman's Amazonian heritage-and at times it is almost irrelevant-as with Hercules' starfaring adventures in the 1982 Marvel miniseries. But all of these make implicit or explicit claims about the place of classics...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199734194
• ISBN13: 9780199734191
• Release Date: February 2011
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.9" x 9.8"