James Danky is a faculty associate at the University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Journalism and Mass Communication and cofounder of the Center for the History of Print Culture in Modern America. He is the coauthor of Underground Classics: The Transformation of Comics into Comix. Wayne B. Wiegand is F. Williams Summers Professor of Library and Information Sciences and a professor of American studies at Florida State University. He is the coauthor of Books On Trial: Red Scare in the Heartland. Danky and Wiegand coedited Women in Print: Essays on the Print Culture of American Women in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries.

Winner of the Carey McWilliams Award given by MultiCultural Review, 1999."Each of the essays provides a fascinating insight into a field often ignored by media historians."--Margaret A. Blanchard, Communications Bulletin Quarterly "Despite the diversity of topics and periods covered in this essay collection, it hangs together well as a book trying to address some neglected areas of research while fitting into an established historiographical framework. . . . I would encourage anyone interested in any aspect of the print culture of the modern United States to pick up this book."--Journal of the Printing Historical Society