Michael Goodrum is Reader in Cultural History at Canterbury Christ Church University. Philip Smith is Associate Chair of Liberal Arts at Savannah College of Art and Design.
'The six main chapters incorporate a broad range of texts, and in these Goodrum and Smith read comics from two distinct periods—the periods before and after the formation of the Comics Code Authority (CCA) in 1954—through the lenses of trauma, race, and gender.' Choice Reviews. All rights reserved. Copyright by the American Library Association 'The authors robustly show the extent to which horror comics appear to indict racism and misogyny while consistently presenting women and people of colour as endangering white men and societal structures.' Dianne Kirby, Twentieth Century Communism -- .