Learn about the history comics and their r ole in domestic propaganda on the US Home Front during World War II. Profe ssor James Kimble will discuss how comics supported mobilization\, uplifte d morale\, and targeted younger audiences to successfully support the war effort. Physical copies of war time comics will be shared to help bring th is fascinating history to life.
\nJames J. Kimble \;(PhD\, Unive rsity of Maryland) is Professor of Communication &\; the Arts at Seton Hall University. He is an expert on domestic propaganda\, war rhetoric\, a nd visual imagery. His research on the World War II era has reached a worl dwide media audience of over 1.2 billion people in more than a dozen langu ages.
\nHe is the author of \;Mobilizing the Home Front: War Bonds \;and Domestic Propaganda and Prairie Forge: The Extra ordinary Story of the Nebraska Scrap Metal Drive of World War II\, as well as co-editor of \;The 10¢\; War: Comic Books\, Propagand a\, and World War II \;and the writer and co-producer of the feat ure documentary \;Scrappers: How the Heartland Won World War II.
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