Autorentext

Robert Aman is Senior Associate Professor at Linköping University, Sweden. He has previously been a lecturer at the University of Glasgow and is a former Visiting Fellow at several institutions, including Duke University, the University of Oxford, Sciences Po Paris, and Ghent University. Aman is the author of many books and research articles, including two award-winning monographs-Serier för vuxna: Epix och den svenska serierevolutionen (Lystring) and När Fantomen blev svensk: vänsterns världsbild i trikå (Daidalos). More information can be found on his homepage: http://www.robertaman.se

Klappentext

New Left Comics examines the leftist radicalization in Sweden during the decade immediately succeeding 1968 through the lens of comic books. It uncovers the ways in which writers and artists used mainstream comics as a medium to teach and inform readers about various forms of injustices and inequality.

Inhalt

Lists of figures. Preface. Acknowledgement. 1. Introduction 2. The Phantom and Foreign Aid 3. Johan Vilde and Colourblind Anti-racism 4. Tumac and the Revolution 5. Mystiska 2:an and the Underside of the Welfare state 6. Conclusion. References. Index.