Monologues For The Coming Plague

Author : Anders Nilsen
Publisher : Fantagraphics Books
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2006-01-01
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781560977186

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Monologues for the Coming Plague by Anders Nilsen Pdf

The book ranges playfully from riffs on the gag cartoon to paranoid soliloquies of a surrealistic apocalypse, with references to contemporary politics, pop culture, and religion, plays on language, and sequential abstractions. Stories intertwine, branch off, dead end and double back. These are experimental, absurdist art comics, but the book is a page-turner, and some of it is laugh-out-loud funny. Reading it is not so much like reading comics as it is watching the artist make connections between ideas, find patterns, and set down the story as it happens. It's a tour de force, beautifully and uniquely packaged, in black and white and color, by one of the most fascinating new cartoonists of the decade. p.p1 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 13.9px Arial; color: #424242}

Author : Shirrel Rhoades
Publisher : Peter Lang
Page : 428 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Art
ISBN : 0820488925

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Comic Books by Shirrel Rhoades Pdf

This book is an insider's guide to how the comic book industry works. You'll learn how comic book superheroes are created and the deeper meanings they represent. You'll follow the development of sequential art storytelling - from caveman wall paintings to modern manga and cinematic techniques. Here you will explore comics in all forms: those flimsy pamphlets we call comic books; thick graphic novels; Japanese manga; and blockbuster movies featuring epic battles between good and evil. But behind it all, you'll discover how comics are an intellectual property business, the real money found in licensed bedsheets and fast-food merchandise, heart-pounding theme park rides and collectible toys, video games, and Hollywood extravaganza featuring such popular superheroes as Spider-Man, Superman, X-Men, and Batman.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 626 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Bibliography
ISBN : STANFORD:36105029523813

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World Literature Today by Anonim Pdf

Author : Tom Spurgeon,Michael Dean
Publisher : Fantagraphics Books
Page : 698 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2016-12-14
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN : 9781606999332

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We Told You So by Tom Spurgeon,Michael Dean Pdf

In 1976, a fledgling magazine held forth the the idea that comics could be art. In 2016, comics intended for an adult readership are reviewed favorably in the New York Times, enjoy panels devoted to them at Book Expo America, and sell in bookstores comparable to prose efforts of similar weight and intent. We Told You So: Comics as Art is an oral history about Fantagraphics Books’ key role in helping build and shape an art movement around a discredited, ignored and fading expression of Americana. It includes appearances by Chris Ware, Art Spiegelman, Harlan Ellison, Stan Lee, Daniel Clowes, Frank Miller, and more.

Author : various
Publisher : Fantagraphics Books
Page : 122 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2007-04-25
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN : 9781560978343

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Mome Vol. 7 by various Pdf

This accessible, reasonably priced, quarterly anthology runs approximately 120 pages per volume and spotlights a cast of a dozen of today's most exciting cartoonists. Mome is quickly earning a reputation as one of the premier literary anthologies on the market, and the only one comprised entirely of comics. Hightlights of the seventh and eighth volumes include: the concluding chapters of Lewis Trondheim's "At Loose Ends," an autobiographical diary comic that portrays the acclaimed French cartoonist at a crossroads in his life and work; the Momedebuts of Eleanor Davis, Tom Kaczynski and T. Edward Bak; contributions from Momeregulars such as 2006 Eisner Award Most Promising Newcomer nominees Jonathan Bennett and R.Kikuo Johnson, as well as Tim Hensley, David Heatley, Paul Hornschemeier, Anders Nilsen, Sophie Crumb, Kurt Wolfgang, Andrice Arp, Martin Cendreda, Zak Sally and Gabrielle Bell.

Author : Anders Nilsen
Publisher : Fantagraphics Books
Page : 418 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2009-01-01
Category : American wit and humor, Pictorial
ISBN : 9781560979807

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Monologues for Calculating the Density of Black Holes by Anders Nilsen Pdf

An experimental collection of art, humor and philosophy. Monologues for Calculating the Density of Black Holes takes up where the artist's first volume, Monologues for the Coming Plague, left off. Like the Coming Plague, the Density of Black Holes is a creatively experimental laboratory, comprising a collection of free flowing stream-of-consciousness gags, strips, and drawings that slowly coalesce into an unexpectedly compelling and complex narrative. The hints of story that came together in Coming Plague are extrapolated and expanded upon and grow to incorporate some of Nilsen's other outre strips from the anthology MOME, two of which are reprinted here in expanded form. The book is an audacious investigation into the rhythms of storytelling, the blurring of media, and an exercise in reconciling contrasts. p.p1 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 13.9px Arial; color: #424242}

Author : Lisa Chalykoff,Neta Gordon,Paul Lumsden
Publisher : Broadview Press
Page : 563 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2018-05-04
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9781460407004

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The Broadview Introduction to Literature: Short Fiction - Second Edition by Lisa Chalykoff,Neta Gordon,Paul Lumsden Pdf

Designed for courses taught at the introductory level in Canadian universities and colleges, this new anthology provides a rich selection of literary texts. Unlike many other such anthologies, it includes literary non-fiction as well as poetry, short fiction, and drama. In each genre the anthology includes a vibrant mix of classic and contemporary works. Each work is accompanied by an introductory headnote and by explanatory notes, and each genre is prefaced by a substantial introduction. Companion websites include genre-specific quizzes and discussion questions for students and instructors. Pedagogically current and uncommon in its breadth of representation, The Broadview Introduction to Literature invites students into the world of literary study in a truly distinctive way. The second edition of The Broadview Anthology of Literature: Short Fiction includes new stories by Haruki Murakami, Octavia Butler, Lynn Coady, Leeanne Betasamosake Simpson, and more.

Author : Françoise Mouly,Jessica Abel,Matt Madden
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 385 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN : 9780547691121

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The Best American Comics 2012 by Françoise Mouly,Jessica Abel,Matt Madden Pdf

Collects original comic strips from American authors and illustrators published in 2012 in graphic novels.

Author : Lisa Chalykoff,Neta Gordon,Paul Lumsden
Publisher : Broadview Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2018-04-17
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9781770487437

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The Broadview Introduction to Literature - Second Edition by Lisa Chalykoff,Neta Gordon,Paul Lumsden Pdf

Designed for courses taught at the introductory level in Canadian universities and colleges, this new anthology provides a rich selection of literary texts. Unlike many other such anthologies, it includes literary non-fiction as well as poetry, short fiction, and drama. In each genre the anthology includes a vibrant mix of classic and contemporary works. Each work is accompanied by an introductory headnote and by explanatory notes, and each genre is prefaced by a substantial introduction. Companion websites include genre-specific quizzes and discussion questions for students and instructors. Pedagogically current and uncommon in its breadth of representation, The Broadview Introduction to Literature invites students into the world of literary study in a truly distinctive way.

Author : Douglas Wolk
Publisher : Da Capo Press
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2008-07-31
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780786721573

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Reading Comics by Douglas Wolk Pdf

Suddenly, comics are everywhere: a newly matured art form, filling bookshelves with brilliant, innovative work and shaping the ideas and images of the rest of contemporary culture. In Reading Comics, critic Douglas Wolk shows us why and how. Wolk illuminates the most dazzling creators of modern comics-from Alan Moore to Alison Bechdel to Chris Ware-and explains their roots, influences, and where they fit into the pantheon of art. As accessible to the hardcore fan as to the curious newcomer, Reading Comics is the first book for people who want to know not just which comics are worth reading, but ways to think and talk and argue about them.

Author : Lisa Chalykoff,Neta Gordon,Paul Lumsden
Publisher : Broadview Press
Page : 914 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2019-06-26
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9781554814756

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The Broadview Introduction to Literature: Concise Edition - Second Edition by Lisa Chalykoff,Neta Gordon,Paul Lumsden Pdf

A contemporary, Canadian, and diverse update of Broadview’s concise introduction to literature. Pedagogically current and uncommon in its breadth of representation, The Broadview Introduction to Literature invites students into the world of literary study in a truly distinctive way.

Author : Shirrel Rhoades
Publisher : Peter Lang
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Art
ISBN : 1433101076

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A Complete History of American Comic Books by Shirrel Rhoades Pdf

This book is an updated history of the American comic book by an industry insider. You'll follow the development of comics from the first appearance of the comic book format in the Platinum Age of the 1930s to the creation of the superhero genre in the Golden Age, to the current period, where comics flourish as graphic novels and blockbuster movies. Along the way you will meet the hustlers, hucksters, hacks, and visionaries who made the American comic book what it is today. It's an exciting journey, filled with mutants, changelings, atomized scientists, gamma-ray accidents, and supernaturally empowered heroes and villains who challenge the imagination and spark the secret identities lurking within us.

Author : Joe Meno
Publisher : Akashic Books
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2008-09-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781933354477

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Demons in the Spring by Joe Meno Pdf

Features a collection of short stories about the surreal yet dark lives of individuals considered outcasts, misfits, or peculiar to loved ones or the outside world.

Author : Anders Nilsen
Publisher : Drawn and Quarterly
Page : 658 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2011-08-16
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN : 1770460470

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Big Questions by Anders Nilsen Pdf

A New York Times Notable Book of 2011, included on Amazon.com, Publishers Weekly, and NPR'S Best Comics lists A haunting postmodern fable, Big Questions is the magnum opus of Anders Nilsen, one of the brightest and most talented young cartoonists working today. This beautiful minimalist story, collected here for the first time, is the culmination of ten years and more than six hundred pages of work that details the metaphysical quandaries of the occupants of an endless plain, existing somewhere between a dream and a Russian steppe. A downed plane is thought to be a bird and the unexploded bomb that came from it is mistaken for a giant egg by the group of birds whose lives the story follows. The indifferent, stranded pilot is of great interest to the birds--some doggedly seek his approval, while others do quite the opposite, leading to tensions in the group. Nilsen seamlessly moves from humor to heartbreak. His distinctive, detailed line work is paired with plentiful white space and large, often frameless panels, conveying an ineffable sense of vulnerability and openness. Big Questions has roots in classic fables--the birds and snakes have more to say than their human counterparts, and there are hints of the hero's journey, but here the easy moral that closes most fables is left open and ambiguous. Rather than lending its world meaning, Nilsen's parable lets the questions wander where they will.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 828 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Comic books, strips, etc
ISBN : STANFORD:36105111756412

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The Comics Journal by Anonim Pdf