Sean Eedy
Adjunct Professor
B.A. (York University), B.A. (University of Ottawa), M.A. (Carleton University), Ph.D. (Carleton University)
Research Interests: German and Cold War history; Comic book history and culture; Children’s and youth popular culture; the East German children’s presses; East German education; samizdat presses in the Soviet-Bloc; Pictorial representation and adaptation
Sean Eedy is a cultural historian whose work focusses on Cold War era Germany, children’s and youth popular culture, comic book culture, animation, and East German state and samizdat presses. Eedy has published on the relationship between the East German regime and the children’s press, the representation of the past in German-language comics, DEFA animation and state power after 1968, and the use of imperialist tropes in comics across the Iron Curtain. His first book, Four-Color Communism, examines power relationships and the comic book in East Germany and how children negotiated space arguably outside the reach of the SED-regime. Eedy’s current research examines cartoons published by oppositional protest groups in late-1980s East Germany, their expression of and use in stoking popular discontent, and the transnational influence of western comix of the 1970s.
Research Interests: German and Cold War history; Comic book history and culture; Children’s and youth popular culture; the East German children’s presses; East German education; samizdat presses in the Soviet-Bloc; Pictorial representation and adaptation.