"This engaging and sophisticated book addresses how progressive-era comics used the figure of the child as a locus of debate about gender, race, class and citizenship. Saguisag's doing a great public service to comics history here!"
~Philip Nel, author of Was the Cat in the Hat Black?: The Hidden Racism of Children's Literature, and the Need fo
“Historians have too long ignored comic strips as source material. Lara Saguisag impeccably unpacks kid comic strips to reveal their complex discourse on childhood and citizenship in Progressive Era America.”
~Ian Gordon, author of Superman: The Persistence of an American Icon
“Amazing work—an invaluable contribution to scholarship at the crossroads of comics studies, childhood studies, children’s literature, and cultural and political history. I wish I had written Incorrigibles and Innocents myself—and it will definitely be in my classrooms going forward!”
~Charles Hatfield, author of Hand of Fire: The Comics Art of Jack Kirby
~Chronicle of Higher Education
~Chronicle of Higher Education
"Saguisag’s Incorrigibles offers both a welcome glimpse into the untapped potential of early newspaper comics and an invitation to keep reading more."
~Inks: Journal of the Comics Studies Society
"Incorrigibles and Innocents provides an exciting model for many more reevaluations of familiar texts in comic studies. It also challenges scholars to read these popular texts in the context of the myriad other, and less known, newspaper strips or comic book series to get a true sense of the reach of the ideas and assumptions that shaped consumer and political cultures of the past."
~H-Net
"Saguisag attends rigorously to the manifold cultural, political, and economic dimensions of Progressive Era America."
~Journal of Graphic Novels and Comics
"Incorrigibles and Innocents is an original and welcome addition to both childhood studies and comics studies. Saguisag demonstrates that for these fields to reach their full potential, they must better account for each other."
~The Journal of the History of Childhood and Youth
"A model for how the careful and deliberate archival study of comics can shine new light both on well-worn received histories and on the literature of the present, precisely through an appropriately unshakeable commitment to being a very serious reader of the funny pages."
~American Literature
"Gives a thought-provoking discussion of race, nation, gender, citizenship, and the child....Saguisag’s work in this monograph is salient and thorough. Not only this, but Saguisag’s writing is accessible, sharp, and engaging. She clearly charts the political lineages of these comics from the nineteenth century to today. In doing so, she opens avenues for scholars of many different areas within children’s literature or adjacent fields to engage with her research."
~Research on Diversity in Youth Literature
