Donald Phelps
American critic and essayist known for influential writings on classic newspaper comic strips and American popular culture, including the collection Reading the Funnies.
Books
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1. Covering Ground; Essays For Now
Essays For Now
An eclectic collection of critical essays ranging across American literature, comics, film, and popular performance. Written in a conversational, personal voice, the pieces combine close reading with wide cultural knowledge, champion overlooked artists, and trace unexpected continuities in the vernacular arts—an inviting, incisive model of engaged criticism.