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Access Type
WSU Access
Date of Award
January 2019
Degree Type
Thesis
Degree Name
M.A.
Department
History
First Advisor
Elizabeth Faue
Abstract
Comic creators remain disadvantaged when entering into contractual negotiations with their employers. Their employers, comic publishers, use various structural mechanisms, such as the Comics Code Authority and the Copyright Act of 1976, to maintain their industrial dominance. After failing to create strong enough organizations in the 1970s to address this disadvantage, creators turned to consumers. Through diversifying characters and reforming superheroes with feminism, comic creators gained new bargaining power in the 1990s.
Recommended Citation
O'brien, Sean, "Revisiting Comics History: Creative Labor And Capitalism" (2019). Wayne State University Theses. 737.
https://digitalcommons.wayne.edu/oa_theses/737