The Greatest Team-Up Never Told? Paul Buhle Theorizes the New Left and Underground Comix
Williams, P
Date: 12 October 2019
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Journal
Inks: The Journal of the Comics Studies Society
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Ohio State University Press
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Abstract
In the late 1960s the writer, editor, and activist Paul Buhle imagined an
ambitious political future for underground comix. Across a series of articles - but especially
in the 1969 essay "Komix Kountermedia" - Buhle proposed that the comix were the latest
turn in a dialectical history of US comics and they promised to provide the ...
In the late 1960s the writer, editor, and activist Paul Buhle imagined an
ambitious political future for underground comix. Across a series of articles - but especially
in the 1969 essay "Komix Kountermedia" - Buhle proposed that the comix were the latest
turn in a dialectical history of US comics and they promised to provide the space in which
a popular anticapitalist sensibility might be forged. Buhle was inspired by a range of critical
thinkers such as C. L. R. James, Antonio Gramsci, and Theodor Adorno, and he saw his
Marxist-infused analysis of comix as an American analogue to the work in cultural studies
being undertaken in Britain. "The Greatest Team-Up Never Told?" provides a summary
of Buhle's theoretical coordinates and his hopes for the role that comix might play in the
revolution to come.
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