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simlish's review
3.0
Comic Art Propaganda is a decent coffee table book about the use of the use of comics for propagandistic purposes. It's pretty shallow because it has one page for each aspect it talks about, and tends to be along the lines of "comics were used for this kind of propaganda and here are some examples" and it was not really meant to be read cover to cover. It definitely didn't get as deep in to the techniques of propaganda as I was hoping for and interested in. Despite that, it's fine as a coffee table book -- it's very well produced, and very nice to look at, and would be great for a guest to flip through at random while waiting for you to make them a drink.
lminca's review
3.0
Three stars for the collection of material, which is often a fascinating reflection of its times, and zero for the text, which is worthless. How can you write a book about propaganda without ever defining what you think propaganda is? You can' t, which is the main thing wrong with this book (the terrible quality of the writing doesn't help any.) This book would have been infinitely better with just the illustrations and no text.
nerdella_reads's review
5.0
Very good read. I like that it started out by saying that just because something is propaganda doesn't mean it is being utilized for less than pure purposes, but instead it's meant to try and sway viewers from one opinion or another. Even if you aren't interested in the last 100ish years of propaganda found in comics, it's practically a guide for comics you should read if you haven't yet.
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