Introduction: Modernism in Comics

Modernism, as the last two decades of criticism have taught us, resides in many places. From Igor Stravinsky’s Rite of Spring to the jazz of Louis Armstrong, the Dadaist oddity of Ballet Mécanique to the silent comedies of Buster Keaton, the expansiveness of James Joyce’s Ulysses to the lithe sophistication of Anita Loos’s Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, the ubiquity of modernist