Monday, April 14, 2008

A TNR Debate: "The Ten-Cent Plague"


In the New Republic, there's a fun debate between Douglas Wolk, the author of Reading Comics: How Graphic Novels Work and What They Mean, and David Hajdu, music critic for The New Republic and author of the new book The Ten-Cent Plague: The Great Comic-Book Scare and How It Changed America. They discuss Hajdu's book, the potentially malevolent effects of lurid horror comics on '50s teenagers, and the current state of the art form all with a fun slideshow highlighting those lurid horror comic covers!

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