WBFO Meet the Author Series: Ben Ratliff (Back to events)
- Mon, May 19th 2008, 7:00pm
- Located at : 3435 Main Street, Buffalo NY
The series features contemporary writers and interesting books for open, thoughtful discussion. Each live broadcast will include a reading from the author, an exchange with the host and questions from the studio audience. A reception follows featuring a book signing thus giving the author opportunity to speak one-on-one with studio audience.
David Hajdu will be discussing his book The Ten-Cent Plague: The Great Comic-Book Scare and How It Changed America. In the years between World War II and the emergence of television as a mass medium, American popular culture as we know it was first created—in the pulpy, boldly illustrated pages of comic books. No sooner had this new culture emerged than it was beaten down by church groups, community bluestockings, and a McCarthyish Congress—only to resurface with a crooked smile on its face in Mad magazine. The story of the rise and fall of those comic books has never been fully told—until The Ten-Cent Plague. David Hajdu’s remarkable new book vividly opens up the lost world of comic books, its creativity, irreverence, and suspicion of authority.
May 19, 7PM; FREE
Allen Hall Theatre
UB South Campus
3435 Main St
