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  • Steve Gerber

    Conversations

    Edited by Jason Sacks, Eric Hoffman, Dominick Grace ...
    Series series Conversations with Comic Artists Series
    Steve Gerber (1947–2008) is among the most significant comics writers of the modern era. Best known for his magnum opus Howard the Duck, he also wrote influential series such as Man-Thing, Omega the Unknown, The Phantom Zone, and Hard Time, expressing a combination of intelligence and empathy rare in American comics.Gerber rose to prominence during the 1970s. His work for Marvel Comics during that ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Jim Shooter

    Conversations

    Edited by Jason Sacks, Eric Hoffman, Dominick Grace ...
    Series series Conversations with Comic Artists Series
    As an American comic book writer, editor, and businessman, Jim Shooter (b. 1951) remains among the most important figures in the history of the medium. Starting in 1966 at the age of fourteen, Shooter, as the young protégé of verbally abusive DC editor Mort Weisinger, helped introduce themes and character development more commonly associated with DC competitor Marvel Comics. Shooter created ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

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    by Jean-Marc Lofficier, Randy Lofficier ...
    An updated edition just in time for Steven Spielberg's animated film The Adventures of Tintin, premiering December 23, 2011, produced by Peter Jackson and starring Daniel Craig, Simon Pegg, and Jamie Bell as TintinThe silhouette of Tintin—a young man wearing golf pants, running with a white fox terrier by his side—is easily one of the most recognizable visual icons of the modern world. In fact ... Read more

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  • War, Politics and Superheroes: Ethics and Propaganda in Comics and Film

    Ethics and Propaganda in Comics and Film

    by Marc DiPaolo ...
    Superhero adventure comics have a long history of commenting upon American public opinion and government policy, and the surge in the popularity of comics since the events of September 11, 2001, ensures their continued relevance. This critical text examines the seventy-year history of comic book superheroes on film and in comic books and their reflections of the politics of their time. Superheroes ... Read more

    $16.39 USD

  • Hand of Fire

    The Comics Art of Jack Kirby

    by Charles Hatfield ...
    Series series Great Comics Artists Series
    Jack Kirby (1917-1994) is one of the most influential and popular artists in comics history. With Stan Lee, he created the Fantastic Four and defined the drawing and narrative style of Marvel Comics from the 1960s to the present day. Kirby is credited with creating or cocreating a number of Marvel's mainstay properties, among them the X-Men, the Hulk, Thor, and the Silver Surfer. His earlier work ... Read more

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  • Film and Comic Books

    Edited by Ian Gordon, Mark Jancovich, Matthew P. McAllister ...
    In Film and Comic Books contributors analyze the problems of adapting one medium to another; the translation of comics aesthetics into film; audience expectations, reception, and reaction to comic book-based films; and the adaptation of films into comics.A wide range of comic/film adaptations are explored, including superheroes (Spider-Man), comic strips (Dick Tracy), realist and autobiographical ... Read more

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  • Horror Comics in Black and White

    A History and Catalog, 1964-2004

    by Richard J. Arndt ...
    In 1954, the comic book industry instituted the Comics Code, a set of self-regulatory guidelines imposed to placate public concern over gory and horrific comic book content, effectively banning genuine horror comics. Because the Code applied only to color comics, many artists and writers turned to black and white to circumvent the Code's narrow confines.With the 1964 Creepy #1 from Warren ... Read more

    $21.39 USD

  • Superheroines and the Epic Journey

    Mythic Themes in Comics, Film and Television

    by Valerie Estelle Frankel ...
    The heroine's journey echoes throughout ancient legend. Each young woman combats her dark side and emerges stronger. This quest is also a staple of American comic books. Wonder Woman with semi-divine powers gives us a new female-centered creation story. Batgirl, Batwoman and Black Widow discover their enemy is the dark mother or shadow twin, with the savagery they've rejected in themselves. ... Read more

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  • The Horror Comics

    Fiends, Freaks and Fantastic Creatures, 1940s-1980s

    by William Schoell ...
    From the Golden Age of the 1940s, through the Silver Age of the '60s, up until the early '80s--the end of the Bronze Age. Included are the earliest series, like American Comics Group's Adventures into the Unknown and Prize Comics' Frankenstein, and the controversial and gory comics of the '40s, such as EC's infamous and influential Tales from the Crypt. The resurgence of monster-horror titles ... Read more

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  • Comics and Language

    Reimagining Critical Discourse on the Form

    by Hannah Miodrag ...
    It has become an axiom in comic studies that “comics is a language, not a genre.” But what exactly does that mean, and how is discourse on the form both aided and hindered by thinking of it in linguistic terms? In Comics and Language, Hannah Miodrag challenges many of the key assumptions about the “grammar” and formal characteristics of comics, and offers a more nuanced, theoretical framework that ... Read more

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  • Disaster Drawn

    Visual Witness, Comics, and Documentary Form

    by Hillary L. Chute ...
    In hard-hitting accounts of Auschwitz, Bosnia, Palestine, and Hiroshima’s Ground Zero, comics display a stunning capacity to bear witness to trauma. Investigating how hand-drawn comics has come of age as a serious medium for engaging history, Disaster Drawn explores the ways graphic narratives by diverse artists, including Jacques Callot, Francisco Goya, Keiji Nakazawa, Art Spiegelman, and Joe ... Read more

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  • Graphic Justice

    Intersections of Comics and Law

    Edited by Thomas Giddens ...
    The intersections of law and contemporary culture are vital for comprehending the meaning and significance of law in today’s world. Far from being unsophisticated mass entertainment, comics and graphic fiction both imbue our contemporary culture, and are themselves imbued, with the concerns of law and justice. Accordingly, and spanning a wide variety of approaches and topics from an international ... Read more

    $77.99 USD