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The “Funnies” as a Discipline
2023
Overview
In grad school at Georgia State University while pursuing my degree in African American Studies, I had a professor who loved to call my research on comics “playing with the funnies.” We both laughed, as it was harmless, good-natured ribbing. She was an older Black woman who researched serious subjects like the Mau Mau Rebellion in Kenya and Kikuyu women, and she grew up in an era when the “funnies” were comic strips in newspapers which featured weird, white people who went on strange adventures. The funnies were for white people and about white people. But like everything else, the
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Rutgers University Press
ISBN
9781978821064, 1978821069, 9781978821057, 1978821050
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