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Romance Comics: Patterns, Passions, and Problems

By Maddy on May 26, 2017 in Dowd Modern Graphic History Library, Special Collections

In a golden era of comics dominated by the superhero and crime genres, the explosion in popularity of a subset surrounding stories of so-called “real-life” love may seem surprising. Nonetheless, romance comics were hugely popular during the post-war and Cold War era from shortly after the genre’s inception in the 1940s until their decline in […]

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