Item Detail
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24425
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English
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The Mormon Image in Comics
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Sunstone
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December 2010
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161
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Salt Lake City, UT
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Sunstone Education Foundation
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68-73
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"Mormon comic book creators have brought forth their own representations of the Book of Mormon and of some important episodes in Church history. These works are similar to those of Christian artists who have depicted the Bible and Christian history. Although LDS comic book creators have produced this type of material, the most recognizable comic book depictions of Mormonism are produced by non-LDS artists who usually depict Mormons in a nineteenth-century Utah setting. Some depictions are positive, but many stories use their Mormon characters as exotic villains or at least suspicious outsiders. Although, like Christianity, Mormonism as a religion has been targeted in the comic book format, these types of attacks are surprisingly rare." [p. 68]