THE ART OF MARK GRAHAM

This book might as well be a diary of postwar capitalism and its toxic effects on art, culture, and collective dreams. Sean Howe’s book does what a lot of fan literature about comics history avoids: it looks at Marvel from the viewpoint primarily of writers and editors—and as a business. When you’re a kid reading the comics you don’t know or care about this stuff. But when you begin to peer into the goings-on behind the “creative” decisions you see clearly the cynical mani