Masters of American Comics
By:"John Carlin","Paul Karasik","Brian Walker","Stanley Crouch"
Published on 2005 by Yale University Press
Presents the work of America's most popular and influential comic artists, and includes critical essays accompanying each artist's drawings.
This Book was ranked 34 by Google Books for keyword comics books.
A Comics Studies Reader
By:"Jeet Heer","Kent Worcester"
Published on 2009-01-01 by Univ. Press of Mississippi
A survey of the best scholars writing on the form, craft, history, and significance of the comics
This Book was ranked 10 by Google Books for keyword comics books.
Alternative Comics
By:"Charles Hatfield"
Published on 2005 by Univ. Press of Mississippi
In the 1980s, a sea change occurred in comics. Fueled by Art Spiegel- man and Franoise Mouly's avant-garde anthology Raw and the launch of the Love Rockets series by Gilbert, Jaime, and Mario Hernandez, the decade saw a deluge of comics that were more autobiographical, emotionally realistic, and experimental than anything seen before. These alternative comics were not the scatological satires of the 1960s underground, nor were they brightly colored newspaper strips or superhero comic books. In Alternative Comics: An Emerging Literature, Charles Hatfield establishes the parameters of alternative comics by closely examining long-form comics, in particular the graphic novel. He argues that these are fundamentally a literary form and offers an extensive critical study of them both as a literary genre and as a cultural phenomenon. Combining sharp-eyed readings and illustrations from particular texts with a larger understanding of the comics as an art form, this book discusses the development of specific genres, such as autobiography and history. Alternative Comics analyzes such seminal works as Spiegelman's Maus, Gilbert Hernandez's Palomar: The Heartbreak Soup Stories, and Justin Green's Binky Brown Meets the Holy Virgin Mary.
This Book was ranked 33 by Google Books for keyword comics books.
Comics Versus Art
By:"Bart Beaty"
Published on 2012-07-17 by University of Toronto Press
On the surface, the relationship between comics and the ‘high’ arts once seemed simple; comic books and strips could be mined for inspiration, but were not themselves considered legitimate art objects. Though this traditional distinction has begun to erode, the worlds of comics and art continue to occupy vastly different social spaces. Comics Versus Art examines the relationship between comics and the most important institutions of the art world; including museums, auction houses, and the art press. Bart Beaty's analysis centres around two questions: why were comics excluded from the history of art for most of the twentieth century, and what does it mean that comics production is now more closely aligned with the art world? Approaching this relationship for the first time through the lens of the sociology of culture, Beaty advances a completely novel approach to the comics form.
This Book was ranked 18 by Google Books for keyword comics books.
Reading Comics
By:"Mila Bongco"
Published on 2014-04-04 by Routledge
First published in 2000. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
This Book was ranked 39 by Google Books for keyword comics books.
Classics and Comics
By:"George Kovacs","C. W. Marshall"
Published on 2011 by Oxford University Press
Since at least 1939, when daily-strip caveman Alley Oop time-traveled to the Trojan War, comics have been drawing (on) material from Greek and Roman myth, literature and history. At times the connection is cosmetic-as perhaps with Wonder Woman's Amazonian heritage-and at times it is almost irrelevant-as with Hercules' starfaring adventures in the 1982 Marvel miniseries. But all of these make implicit or explicit claims about the place of classics in modern literary culture. Classics and Comics is the first book to explore the engagement of classics with the epitome of modern popular literature, the comic book. This volume collects sixteen articles, all specially commissioned for this volume, that look at how classical content is deployed in comics and reconfigured for a modern audience. It opens with a detailed historical introduction surveying the role of classical material in comics since the 1930s. Subsequent chapters cover a broad range of topics, including the incorporation of modern theories of myth into the creation and interpretation of comic books, the appropriation of characters from classical literature and myth, and the reconfiguration of motif into a modern literary medium. Among the well-known comics considered in the collection are Frank Miller's 300 and Sin City, DC Comics' Wonder Woman, Jack Kirby's The Eternals, Neil Gaiman's Sandman, and examples of Japanese manga. The volume also includes an original 12-page \
This Book was ranked 13 by Google Books for keyword comics books.
Baby Boomer Comics
By:"Craig Shutt"
Published on 2011-02-28 by Krause Publications
The publishers of comics nostalgia classics All in Color for a Dime and Comics Buyer's Guide are talkin' 'bout your generations! Join Craig \
This Book was ranked 16 by Google Books for keyword comics books.
Marvel Comics
By:"Sean Howe"
Published on 2013-10-01 by Harper Collins
An unvarnished, unauthorized, behind-the-scenes account of one of the most dominant pop cultural forces in contemporary America Operating out of a tiny office on Madison Avenue in the early 1960s, a struggling company called Marvel Comics presented a cast of brightly costumed characters distinguished by smart banter and compellingly human flaws. Spider-Man, the Fantastic Four, Captain America, the Incredible Hulk, the Avengers, Iron Man, Thor, the X-Men, Daredevil—these superheroes quickly won children's hearts and sparked the imaginations of pop artists, public intellectuals, and campus radicals. Over the course of a half century, Marvel's epic universe would become the most elaborate fictional narrative in history and serve as a modern American mythology for millions of readers. Throughout this decades-long journey to becoming a multibillion-dollar enterprise, Marvel's identity has continually shifted, careening between scrappy underdog and corporate behemoth. As the company has weathered Wall Street machinations, Hollywood failures, and the collapse of the comic book market, its characters have been passed along among generations of editors, artists, and writers—also known as the celebrated Marvel \
This Book was ranked 35 by Google Books for keyword comics books.
Girls and Their Comics
By:"Jacqueline Danziger-Russell"
Published on 2013 by Rowman & Littlefield
Discusses the history of the comic book and how it is a powerful medium for expressing the voices of marginalized girls, drawing on testimony from librarians, authors, and readers to analyze the growing interest in comics.
This Book was ranked 32 by Google Books for keyword comics books.
The Power of Comics
By:"Randy Duncan","Matthew J. Smith"
Published on 2009-07-01 by A&C Black
Offers undergraduate students with an understanding of the comics medium and its communication potential. This book deals with comic books and graphic novels. It focuses on comic books because in their longer form they have the potential for complexity of expression.
This Book was ranked 19 by Google Books for keyword comics books.
Comics Values Annual, 1998
By:"Alex G. Malloy"
Published on 1997-08-01 by Antique Trader
With more than 30,000 updated prices and over 650 photos and illustrations, \
This Book was ranked 28 by Google Books for keyword comics books.
Of Comics and Men
By:"Jean-Paul Gabilliet","Bart Beaty","Nick Nguyen"
Published on 2010-01 by Univ. Press of Mississippi
This is a seminal study of the evolution and development of the American comic from the 1930s to the present day. The book is divided into three sections covering the history, an overview of the distribution and consumption of American comic books, and an account of the popularisation and legitimisation of the comic book form.
This Book was ranked 1 by Google Books for keyword comics books.
The Rise and Reason of Comics and Graphic Literature
By:"Joyce Goggin","Dan Hassler-Forest"
Published on 2010-09-09 by McFarland
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This Book was ranked 23 by Google Books for keyword comics books.
How To Draw Comics The Marvel Way
By:"Stan Lee","John Buscema"
Published on 1984-09-14 by Simon and Schuster
Illustrates hitherto mysterious methods of comic art using as examples such Mighty Marvel heroes as Thor, The Silver Surfer, Spider-Man, and The Hulk
This Book was ranked 11 by Google Books for keyword comics books.
Comics as Philosophy
By:"Jeff McLaughlin"
Published on 2005 by Univ. Press of Mississippi
Through the combination of text and images, comic books offer a unique opportunity to explore deep questions about aesthetics, ethics, and epistemology in nontraditional ways. The essays in this collection focus on a wide variety of genres, from mainstream superhero comics, to graphic novels of social realism, to European adventure classics. Included among the contributions are essays on existentialism in Daniel Clowes's graphic novel \
This Book was ranked 37 by Google Books for keyword comics books.
Master Comics #111
By:"Kari Therrian","Fawcett Publications"
Published on 2015-03-06 by
This Book was ranked 22 by Google Books for keyword classic adventures.
How to Read Superhero Comics and why
By:"Geoff Klock"
Published on 2002 by A&C Black
Superhero comic books are traditionally thought to have two distinct periods, two major waves of creativity: the Golden Age and the Silver Age. In simple terms, the Golden Age was the birth of the superhero proper out of the pulp novel characters of the early 1930s, and was primarily associated with the DC Comics Group. Superman, Batman, Green Lantern, and Wonder Woman are the most famous creations of this period. In the early 1960s, Marvel Comics launched a completely new line of heroes, the primary figures of the Silver Age: the Fantastic Four, Spider-Man, the Incredible Hulk, the X-Men, the Avengers, Iron Man, and Daredevil. In this book, Geoff Klock presents a study of the Third Movement of superhero comic books. He avoids, at all costs, the temptation to refer to this movement as \
This Book was ranked 25 by Google Books for keyword comics books.
Lightning Comics Vol. 1 #6
By:"Kari Therrian","Ace Magazines"
Published on 2015-04-23 by
LIGHTNING COMICS V.1 #61941DR. NemisisFlash LightningHap Hazardand more.....World War Two was raging in Europe, and it wouldn't be long before the United States faced a two-front war. Comics were in their infancy, but the Golden Age was hitting its stride. Now you can enjoy again (or for the first time)the colorful characters and exciting stories of that era with this great golden age reprint.The comic reprints from Golden Age Reprints and UP History and Hobby are reproduced from actual classic comics, and sometimes reflect the imperfection of books that are decades old. These books are constantly updated with the best version available - if you are EVER unhappy with the experience or quality of a book, return the book to us to exchange for another title or the upgrade as new files become available. SH1296720143868
This Book was ranked 18 by Google Books for keyword classic adventures.
Andy Comics Books No 20 1948 Series
By:
Published on by Tri Fold Media Group
This Book was ranked 38 by Google Books for keyword comics books.
The Comics
By:"Coulton Waugh"
Published on 1947 by Univ. Press of Mississippi
This classic 1947 study, the first of its kind, probes the mass popularity of the comics as well as exploring their evolution, social commentary, art forms, and genres
This Book was ranked 27 by Google Books for keyword comics books.
