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In the 20th century, no artistic medium in North America with so much potential for creative expression has had a more turbulent history plagued with less respect than comic books. Through animated montages, readings and interviews, this film guides us through the history of the medium from the late 1930s and 1940s with the first explosion of popularity with the superheroes created by great talents like Jack Kirby and hitting its first artistic zenith with Will Eisner's "Spirit". It then shifts to the post war comics world with the rising popularity of crime and horror comics, especially those published by EC Comics under the editorshiop of William B. Gaines until it came crashing down the rise of censorship with the imposition of the Comics Code. In its wake of the devastation of the medium's creative freedom, we also explore EC's defiant survival with the creation of the singular "Mad Magazine" by Harvey Kurtzman. We then move to the resurgence of the superheroes in the late 1950's and 1960's typified with the rise of the dramatically innovative Marvel Comics edited by Stan Lee. Still more important is the rise of the the gleefully uninhibited underground comics created by eccentric talents like Robert Crumb and Dan O'Neill. These leads to profiles of creaters like Harvey Pekar who take the medium into new directions of expression. In the late 1970s and '80s we see the rise of alternative comics with such bold talents like Jaime Hernández for "Love and Rockets, Sue Coe for How to Commit Suicide in South Africa and especially for Art Spiegelman for his searing Pulitizer Prize winning Holocaust account, Maus. Finally, we learn of the medium's superhero mythos' revitalizing moment with the creation of Frank Miller's ferocious min-series "Batman: The Dark Knight Returns". Taken together, the film makes its arguement that the medium is far more than the stereotype of juvenile trash but rather it is an artform with a wild history and an exciting future.
快乐老家
pic²85分钟，怀念爱看漫画的青葱年代
想看Robert Crumb了
一遍关于中国动漫产业的文章，结果写了一本日本动漫史话，一本美国动漫史话，我也是醉了。书没有深入的剖析，都是一些百度上能搜到的，鉴于我自己没有体系，所以跟着作者的节奏看还是可以。
看完想买big guy看看。
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五彩斑斓的漫画世界... 让我沉醉... 很有创意，很赞的一段发展历史。4.5星，我私心再加一星... 5.5星
好有趣！看完更喜欢美漫了
http://video.tudou.com/v/XMjIwOTUwMjkzMg==.html
看到好多大神
太古早，该更新了
漫画始终是最美国的艺术形态（漫画、爵士乐和电影），此片回顾了70、80年代的漫画众生相。蝙蝠侠的变化无疑是个例证，地下漫画代表的呀文化逐渐被文化工业收编，成为“风格”，而地下漫画的魅力永远比“风格”更多。
发现里面不少提及的大腕都有过纪录片或传记片，这片算是个整体的概览。
纪录片就怕拍成这样，自我感觉太好
看过之后对美漫有了更深的了解，把老婆婆涂成贤妻良母那段笑趴了