Description
With his stints writing Catwoman, Gotham Central, and Daredevil, Brubaker advanced the work of crime comic book writers through superhero stories informed by hard-boiled detective fiction and film noir. During his time on Captain America and his series Sleeper and Incognito, Brubaker revisited the conventions of the espionage thriller. With double agents who lose themselves in their jobs, the stories expose the arbitrary superhero standards of good and evil. In his series Criminal, Brubaker offered complex crime stories and, with a clear sense of the complicated lost world before the Comics Code, rejected crusading critic Fredric Wertham's myth of the innocence of early comics.
Overall, Brubaker demonstrates his self-conscious methodology in these often little-known and hard-to-find interviews, worthwhile conversations in their own right as well as objects of study for both scholars and researchers.
About the Author
Terrence R. Wandtke, Belvidere, Illinois, is professor of film and media studies and director of the Film and Media Program at Judson University in Elgin, Illinois, USA. He is author of The Dark Night Returns: The Resurgence of Crime Comic Books and The Meaning of Superhero Comic Books and editor of The Amazing Transforming Superhero: Essays on the Revision of Characters in Comic Books, Film, and Television.
Book Information
ISBN 9781496805508
Author Terrence R. Wandtke
Format Hardback
Page Count 144
Imprint University Press of Mississippi
Publisher University Press of Mississippi
Weight(grams) 391g