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Publisher
PBS Distribution
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
Examines the dawn of the comic book genre and its progenitors, as well as the evolution of the characters that leapt from the pages over the last 70 years and their ongoing worldwide cultural impact. It chronicles how these 'disposable diversions' were subject to intense government scrutiny for their influence on American children and how they were created in large part by immigrants whose fierce loyalty to a new homeland laid the foundation of a...
Author
Publisher
Quirk Books
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"Think comic books can't feature strong female protagonists? Think again! In The Spectacular Sisterhood of Superwomen you'll meet the most fascinating exemplars of the powerful, compelling, entertaining, and heroic female characters who've populated comic books from the very beginning. This spectacular sisterhood includes costumed crimebusters like Miss Fury, super-spies like Tiffany Sinn, sci-fi pioneers like Gale Allen, and even kid troublemakers...
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Series
Publisher
Fantagraphics Books
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
GRAPHIC NOVELS. Johnny Craig always stood out at EC Comics thanks to his crisp, elegant and contemporary graphic style. And nowhere did this style work more beautifully than in the dozens of superb crime stories he wrote and drew for EC, mostly in Crime SuspenStories, for which he handled the cover and lead-story duties for most of its run.
11) The astounding illustrated history of science fiction: movies, art, comics, pulp magazines, fiction
Author
Publisher
Flame Tree Publishing
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Using timelines, online links, illustrations, posters, movie stills, book covers, and more, this book propels us into the well of modern imagination, from its roots in Frankenstein, through Verne, H.G. Wells, the late gothic and weird horror of Lovecraft to the mass market sensationalism of the Pulp magazines. The Pulps then invoked a new generation of writers (such as Ray Bradbury and Robert Bloch) of the Golden Age before many transitioned to screenwriting...
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Publisher
University Press of Mississippi
Pub. Date
[2001]
Language
English
Description
A diverse study of how words and pictures interact in comics to make messages. In our culture, which depends increasingly on images for instruction and recreation, it is important to ask how words and images make meaning when they are combined. Comics, one of the most widely read media of the twentieth century, serves as an ideal for focusing an investigation on the word-and-image question. This collection of essays attempts to give an answer. The...
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Publisher
Thames & Hudson Ltd
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
As contemporary as this graphic art form may appear to readers outside of Japan, manga has, in fact, deep roots in Japanese culture, drawing on centuries-old artistic traditions: traces can be found in seventh century temple paintings, folding screens decorated with comic characters, and painted medieval Emakimono scrolls. The more familiar manga comics of today echo similar themes, both light and serious, and draw on narrative forms present in the...
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