{"product_id":"ec-comics-race-shock-and-social-protest-9780813566313","title":"EC Comics: Race, Shock, and Social Protest","description":"\u003cb\u003e2020 Eisner Award for Best Academic\/Scholarly Work\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Entertaining Comics Group (EC Comics) is perhaps best-known today for lurid horror comics like \u003ci\u003eTales from the Crypt\u003c\/i\u003e and for a publication that long outlived the company's other titles, \u003ci\u003eMad \u003c\/i\u003emagazine. But during its heyday in the early 1950s, EC was also an early innovator in another genre of comics: the so-called \"preachies,\" socially conscious stories that boldly challenged the conservatism and conformity of Eisenhower-era America. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eEC Comics\u003c\/i\u003e examines a selection of these works--sensationally-titled comics such as \"Hate ,\" \"The Guilty ,\" and \"Judgment Day \"--and explores how they grappled with the civil rights struggle, antisemitism, and other forms of prejudice in America. Putting these socially aware stories into conversation with EC's better-known horror stories, Qiana Whitted discovers surprising similarities between their narrative, aesthetic, and marketing strategies. She also recounts the controversy that these stories inspired and the central role they played in congressional hearings about offensive content in comics. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e The first serious critical study of EC's social issues comics, this book will give readers a greater appreciation of their legacy. They not only served to inspire future comics creators, but also introduced a generation of young readers to provocative ideas and progressive ideals that pointed the way to a better America.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eQIANA WHITTED is a professor of English and African American studies at the University of South Carolina in Columbia. She is the author of \u003ci\u003eA God of Justice?: The Problem of Evil in 20th Century Black Literature\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Rutgers University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50917898584338,"sku":"9780813566313","price":31.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_13718428-633e-42e8-9c40-9edc12520f7f.jpg?v=1738871934","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/ec-comics-race-shock-and-social-protest-9780813566313","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}