James Warren Empire Of Monsters

Author : Bill Schelly
Publisher : Fantagraphics Books
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2018-10-31
Category : Periodicals
ISBN : 9781683961475

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James Warren, Empire of Monsters by Bill Schelly Pdf

The definitive biography of the visionary publisher of Famous Monsters of Filmland, the magazine that inspired filmmakers Steven Spielberg, George Lucas, Joe Dante, and many more. This heavily illustrated biography features eye-opening ― often outrageous ―anecdotes about Warren, a larger-than-life figure whose ability as a publisher, promoter, and provocateur make him a fascinating figure. In addition to Forrest J. Ackerman’s Famous Monsters of Filmland, he published Help!, a magazine created by MAD’s Harvey Kurtzman, which featured early work by John Cleese, Gloria Steinem, Terry Gilliam, Robert Crumb, and Diane Arbus; Creepy and Eerie magazines, with covers by painter Frank Frazetta and comics art by Steve Ditko, Wallace Wood, Bernie Wrightson, Al Williamson, and many others. His most famous co-creation, the character Vampirella, debuted in her own magazine in 1969, and continues to be published today.

Author : Tom Skulan
Publisher : Fantaco's Chronicles
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2017-02
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN : 0938782371

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Famous Monsters Chronicles II by Tom Skulan Pdf

A complete index of the original Famous Monsters of Filmland Magazine published by Warren Publishing Co. from 1958 until 1983. Including a new interview with James Warren.

Author : Orty Ortwein
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 245 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2024-05-20
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781476651729

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The First Geeks by Orty Ortwein Pdf

The writer Ray Bradbury, science fiction expert Forry Ackerman, and special effects genius Ray Harryhausen are world-famous for their careers involving tales of the imagination. Before anyone had heard of them, they were friends as teens and college-aged boys enjoying all that 1930s L.A. had to offer: getting celebrity autographs, watching blockbuster movies, and haunting dozens of bookstores. As members of the Los Angeles chapter of the Science Fiction League, the three belonged to a tight-knit group that was involved in the earliest science fiction conventions and the birth of cosplay. This book follows the lives and careers of these three literary and film legends and tracks the origins of science fiction fandom. Each chapter builds a chronology of how their paths intertwined, and ultimately connected to, the beginnings of renowned fan conventions like Comic-Con. Devoted science fiction fans and new readers alike will learn how a young friendship launched three illustrious careers and changed the face of science fiction forever.

Author : Richie Hofmann
Publisher : Alice James Books
Page : 100 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2015-10-12
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781938584305

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Second Empire by Richie Hofmann Pdf

"The delicate arc of these poems intimates—rather than tells—a love story: celebration, fear of loss, storm, abandonment, an opening forth. Richie Hofmann disciplines his natural elegance into the sterner recognitions that matter: 'I am a little white omnivore,' the speaker of Second Empire discovers. Mastering directness and indirection, Hofmann's poems break through their own beauty."—Rosanna Warren This debut's spare, delicate poems explore ways we experience the afterlife of beauty while ornately examining lust, loss, and identity. Drawing upon traditions of amorous sonnets, these love-elegies desire an artistic and sexual connection to others—other times, other places—in order to understand aesthetic pleasures the speaker craves. Distant and formal, the poems feel both ancient and contemporary. Antique Book The sky was crazed with swallows. We walked in the frozen grass of your new city, I was gauzed with sleep. Trees shook down their gaudy nests. The ceramic pots were caparisoned with snow. I was jealous of the river, how the light broke it, of the skein of windows where we saw ourselves. Where we walked, the ice cracked like an antique book, opening and closing. The leaves beneath it were the marbled pages. Richie Hofmann is the winner of a Ruth Lilly Fellowship from the Poetry Foundation, and his poems have appeared or are forthcoming in the New Yorker, Poetry, the Kenyon Review, and Ploughshares. A graduate of the Johns Hopkins University MFA program, he is currently a Creative Writing Fellow in Poetry at Emory University.

Author : Harris M. Lentz III
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 463 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2020-11-06
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781476679785

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Obituaries in the Performing Arts, 2019 by Harris M. Lentz III Pdf

The entertainment world lost many notable talents in 2019, including television icon Doris Day, iconic novelist Toni Morrison, groundbreaking director John Singleton, Broadway starlet Carol Channing and lovable Star Wars actor Peter Mayhew. Obituaries of actors, filmmakers, musicians, producers, dancers, composers, writers, animals and others associated with the performing arts who died in 2019 are included in this edition. Date, place and cause of death are provided for each, along with a career recap and a photograph. Filmographies are given for film and television performers.

Author : Alex Segura
Publisher : Flatiron Books
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2022-03-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781250801753

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Secret Identity by Alex Segura Pdf

From Anthony Award-winning writer Alex Segura comes Secret Identity, a rollicking literary mystery set in the world of comic books. It’s 1975 and the comic book industry is struggling, but Carmen Valdez doesn’t care. She’s an assistant at Triumph Comics, which doesn’t have the creative zeal of Marvel nor the buttoned-up efficiency of DC, but it doesn’t matter. Carmen is tantalizingly close to fulfilling her dream of writing a superhero book. That dream is nearly a reality when one of the Triumph writers enlists her help to create a new character, which they call “The Lethal Lynx,” Triumph's first female hero. But her colleague is acting strangely and asking to keep her involvement a secret. And then he’s found dead, with all of their scripts turned into the publisher without her name. Carmen is desperate to piece together what happened to him, to hang on to her piece of the Lynx, which turns out to be a runaway hit. But that’s complicated by a surprise visitor from her home in Miami, a tenacious cop who is piecing everything together too quickly for Carmen, and the tangled web of secrets and resentments among the passionate eccentrics who write comics for a living. Alex Segura uses his expertise as a comics creator as well as his unabashed love of noir fiction to create a truly one-of-a-kind novel--hard-edged and bright-eyed, gritty and dangerous, and utterly absorbing.

Author : Ronnie E. Smith
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 30 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2016-05-20
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1532766920

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There's a Monster in My Bathroom by Ronnie E. Smith Pdf

Ever since Nicholas and his family moved into their bigger - but much older - home, he has suspected that the noises coming from his bathroom aren't caused by faulty plumbing or old age...but something more menacing. Young readers will enjoy this cute adventure and will learn with Nicholas just what really in his bathroom is making all those scary noises. "There's a Monster in My Bathroom" is the very first book in the Monster Mystery Series which is all about cute, captivating bedtime stories which are not only intended to entertain young kids between the ages of 4 to 8, but also to help them learn to read or increase reading fluency through the rhyming canter style I'll incorporate into each book. Though each story will be monster themed, the monsters will be cute and non-threatening, whether real or imagined.

Author : Carolyn Keene
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2009-12-01
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 1416998284

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Green-Eyed Monster by Carolyn Keene Pdf

George, Bess, and I were so excited when we won an amazing vacation at an eco-resort in Costa Rica. Fun, sun, surf -- all in the name of ecology and helping to keep our planet clean. But, as always, dirty business seems to follow me wherever I go, and this resort isn't as spic 'n' span as we originally thought. After a string of increasingly dangerous "accidents," it seems that there is a jealous predator staying at the resort, making trouble for the management and the guests. Against the urging of my friends, I know that I need to take this case and get to the bottom of it before our entire week at Casa Verde is ruined -- or worse. Can I uncover who is sabotaging the press tour before it's too late? Or will our vacation come to an unhappy end?

Author : Noel K. Hannan,Tom Simonton
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 64 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Science fiction comic books, strips, etc
ISBN : 0938782339

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Air Warriors by Noel K. Hannan,Tom Simonton Pdf

Author : Jasmine Jones
Publisher : Disney Press
Page : 140 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2006-11-21
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 0786838388

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That's so Raven: Queen of Hearts - #18 by Jasmine Jones Pdf

Chelsea learns that Devon’s father is getting remarried andmoving the entire family to Seattle, but Devon is too scared to tell Raven.Chelsea breaks the news to her best friend, who rushes to the wedding chapel,but it’s too late! Devon tells Raven that even though it will be hard to move,he wants his dad to be happy. She agrees and says a sad goodbye to him. Plus,Raven sticks up for a foreign exchange student, Tendaji, when he’s being pickedon at school, and almost ends up marrying him!

Author : Alex Grand
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 359 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2023-05-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781476690391

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Understanding Superhero Comic Books by Alex Grand Pdf

This work dissects the origin and growth of superhero comic books, their major influences, and the creators behind them. It demonstrates how Batman, Wonder Woman, Captain America and many more stand as time capsules of their eras, rising and falling with societal changes, and reflecting an amalgam of influences. The book covers in detail the iconic superhero comic book creators and their unique contributions in their quest for realism, including Julius Schwartz and the science-fiction origins of superheroes; the collaborative design of the Marvel Universe by Jack Kirby, Stan Lee, and Steve Ditko; Jim Starlin’s incorporation of the death of superheroes in comic books; John Byrne and the revitalization of superheroes in the modern age; and Alan Moore’s deconstruction of superheroes.

Author : Harvey Kurtzman,Al Feldstein
Publisher : Fantagraphics Books
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2020-01-29
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN : 9781683962755

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Man and Superman by Harvey Kurtzman,Al Feldstein Pdf

All of the creator of Mad magazine’s rarely seen EC science fiction comics stories in a single volume! These stories ― all drawn by Kurtzman, some of which he also wrote ― are from the pages of Weird Science, Weird Fantasy, Tales from the Crypt, and more. With Al Feldstein, Kurtzman created "Lost in the Microcosm," "The Man Who Raced Time," and "Atom Bomb Thief." There's also "The Radioactive Child," "The Last War on Earth," and the titular story, a cautionary tale about how the laws of physics would impact a real-world superhero, delivered in a uniquely bold, slashing cartoony-but-dead-serious style.

Author : Archie Goodwin
Publisher : Dark Horse Comics
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2023-10-03
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN : 9781506736198

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Eerie Archives Volume 1 by Archie Goodwin Pdf

Now available in an affordable paperback format, Eerie Archives Volume 1 features some of the most acclaimed works of horror, murder, and the macabre in the history of graphic fiction. Eerie, like its killer kin Creepy, features work from many of the grandmasters of comics storytelling, including Frank Frazetta, Al Williamson, Gray Morrow, Alex Toth, Steve Ditko, and others and stories by the legendary Archie Goodwin. Features the ultra-rare Eerie #1, for which only 200 “ashcan” copies were originally printed! Collects Eerie magazine #1–#5.

Author : Various
Publisher : Dark Horse Comics
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2009-02-17
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN : 9781621154723

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Eerie Archives Volume 1 by Various Pdf

Slithering upon the heels of Dark Horse's archive collections of the seminal horror comics magazine Creepy comes its terror-filled cousin publication Eerie! Dark Horse Comics has taken great, gruesome care in presenting this groundbreaking material to readers who have been waiting decades to get their claws on it. Collected for fans for the first time ever, and packaged in the same amazing oversized format as its killer kin Creepy Archives, Eerie features work from many of the masters of comics storytelling, including Gray Morrow, Frank Frazetta, Alex Toth, Neal Adams, Joe Orlando, and others. For fans of spectacular spookiness, mind-bending sci-fi, and astonishing artwork, the New York Times bestseller Eerie Archives is a must-have.

Author : Bill Schelly
Publisher : Fantagraphics Books
Page : 645 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2015-05-02
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781606997611

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Harvey Kurtzman by Bill Schelly Pdf

This biography reveals the true story of Mad creator Harvey Kurtzman―the man who revolutionized humor in America; it features new interviews with his colleagues Hugh Hefner, Robert Crumb, and others. Harvey Kurtzman created Mad, and Mad revolutionized humor in America. Kurtzman was the original editor, artist, and sole writer of Mad, one of the greatest publishing successes of the 20th century. But how did Kurtzman invent Mad, and why did he leave it shortly after it burst, nova-like, onto the American scene? For this heavily researched biography, Bill Schelly conducted new interviews with Kurtzman’s colleagues, friends and family, including Hugh Hefner, R. Crumb, Jack Davis, and many others, and examined Kurtzman’s personal archives. The result is the true story of one the 20th century’s greatest humorists: Kurtzman's family life, the details of the FBI's investigation during the McCarthy Era, his legal battles with William M. Gaines (publisher of Mad), are all revealed for the first time. Rich with anecdotes, this book traces Kurtzman’s life from his Brooklyn beginnings to his post-Mad years, when his ceaseless creativity produced more innovations: new magazines, a graphic novel, and Little Annie Fanny inPlayboy.