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Author:   Jorge J. Santos ,  Patrick Lawrence
Publisher:   University of Texas Press
Imprint:   University of Texas Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 3.00cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.540kg
ISBN:  

9781477331804

ISBN 10:   1477331808
Pages:   304
Publication Date:   30 June 2025
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Forthcoming
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Table of Contents

List of Illustrations Foreword. Your Obscene Is Not Mine: A Defense of the Art of Comics (Frederick Luis Aldama) Introduction. “A Cultural Slaughter of the Innocents” (Patrick S. Lawrence and Jorge J. Santos Jr.) Timeline of Significant Events Part One. Out of the Gutters: Comics’ History of Obscenity 1. Why Sex? (Hillary Chute) 2. “Wise Up, Old Hags! Th’ Weak One Is a Valuable Possession to Us”: R. Crumb’s Bible of Filth and Obscenity as Artificial Scarcity (Patrick S. Lawrence) 3. Howard Cruse’s War on the War on Obscenity (Andrew J. Kunka) 4. Obscene Histories: Indexing the Racial Phantasms of Blazing Combat (Jorge J. Santos Jr.) Part Two. Obscenity in the Gutters and at the Margins 5. Graphic Storytelling, Book Challengers, and Obscenity (Richard S. Price) 6. Big-Boned Sapphic Smut: The Reading Pleasure of Comics by and about Black Women (Cathy Thomas) 7. Robert Kirkman’s Gays in the Gutter: Anti-Queer Censorship, Obscenity, and The Walking Dead (Jarred Wiehe) Part Three. Theorizing the Obscene, Seeing Obscenity 8. Planet Xeno: Obscenity as Erotic Alienation in Charles Burns (Jordan Carroll) 9. Seen, Unseen, and Obscene: Historical Violence in Comic Books (Jennifer Caplan) 10. Obscene Empathy: Kink and the Comics Code Authority in X-Men’s “Dark Phoenix Saga” (Anthony D’Agostino) 11. Boobs + Monsters: Emil Ferris’s My Favorite Thing Is Monsters, Horror Comics, and the Fate of Disciplinary Normalization in the Twenty-First Century (Lee Konstantinou) Afterword. A Conversation about Community with MariNaomi (Jorge J. Santos Jr.) Acknowledgments Contributors Index

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A rich and compelling compilation of essays, Out of the Gutters is a valuable resource for readers across fields, from comix/graphic novel devotees, to students of censorship or obscenity law, to those interested in underground publishers and transgressive cultural forms. Thoughtful and engaging, this volume draws on a wide body of materials that will make it a key resource. - Brett J. Gary, New York University, author of Dirty Works: Obscenity on Trial in America's First Sexual Revolution

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Jorge J. Santos, Jr. is an associate professor of Multiethnic Literatures of the United States at the College of the Holy Cross and the author of Graphic Memories of the Civil Rights Movement: Reframing History in Comics. Patrick S. Lawrence is an associate professor of English at the University of South Carolina Lancaster and the author of Obscene Gestures: Counter-Narratives of Sex and Race in the Twentieth Century.

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