History Comics: The Prohibition Era
America's War on Alcohol
$41.84
- Hardcover
128 pages
- Release Date
28 January 2025
Summary
Turn back the clock with History Comics! In this volume we visit the Prohibition Era and see how the business of booze became a criminal enterprise!
In 1919, the United States ratified an amendment to the Constitution that outlawed the manufacture, transportation, and sale of alcohol. As a hard-fought dream for a better world became federal law, society soon began facing an onslaught of new problems: clever bootleggers, corrupt enforcers, crowded prisons, and violent gangsters.
<…Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781250801449 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1250801443 |
| Author: | Jason Viola, Roger Langridge |
| Publisher: | Roaring Brook Press |
| Imprint: | First Second |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 128 |
| Release Date: | 28 January 2025 |
| Weight: | 300g |
| Dimensions: | 152mm x 216mm |
| Series: | History Comics |
| Audience Age: | 9 |
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Critics Review
“Overall, this title would be a great addition to history classes discussing this period, as it illustrates well the domino effect of drinking that led to the repeal of the Eighteenth Amendment.” –School Library Journal
Jason Viola
Jason Viola lives in Massachusetts, where he co-founded the Boston Comic Arts Foundation and helps produce comics festivals throughout the region. He is also the author of Science Comics: Elephants, Science Comics: The Digestive System, and Science Comics: Polar Bears. Jason lives outside Boston with his wife and son.
Roger Langridge is a New Zealand-born cartoonist who currently lives in London, U.K., with his wife Sylvie and their two children. His career in comics spans over thirty years and includes work on the Popeye and Muppet Show comic series, Thor the Mighty Avenger, and his self-published title Fred the Clown. He won an Eisner Award in 2012 for his Lewis Carroll-inspired series, Snarked!.
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