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Author : Scott McCloud,Bill Kartalopoulos
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 405 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN : 9780544106000
An anthology of top-selected graphic pieces published in American periodicals in 2013 showcases the work of both established and up-and-coming contributors.
Author : Jonathan Lethem,Bill Kartalopoulos
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 403 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Comic books, strips, etc
ISBN : 9780544107700
Collects original comic strips from American authors and illustrators published in comic and graphic novel format
Author : Jeff Smith,Jessica Abel,Matt Madden
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : American literature
ISBN : 0547995466
Collects original comic strips from American authors and illustrators published in 2012 in comic and graphic novel format.
Author : Jillian Tamaki,Bill Kartalopoulos
Publisher : Best American Series (R)
Page : 409 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN : 9780358067283
Jillian Tamaki, co-author of This One Summer, picks the best graphic pieces of the year. Jillian Tamaki, coauthor of the New York Times bestseller This One Summer, selects the best graphic pieces of the year. The Best American Comics 2019 showcases the work of established and up-and-coming artists, collecting work found in the pages of graphic novels, comic books, periodicals, zines, online, in galleries, and more, highlighting the kaleidoscopic diversity of the comics form today.
Author : Ben Schwartz
Publisher : Fantagraphics Books
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2010-05-25
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781606991480
An immediate perennial, documenting the critical rise of the graphic novel. Conventional wisdom states that cartooning and graphic novels exist in a golden age of creativity, popularity, and critical acceptance. But why? Today, the signal is stronger than ever, but so is the noise. New York Times, Vanity Fair, and Bookforum critic Ben Schwartz assembles the greatest lineup of comics critics the world has yet seen to testify on behalf of this increasingly vital medium. The Best American Comics Writing is the first attempt to collate the best criticism to date of the graphic novel boom in a way that contextualizes and codifies one of the most important literary movements of the last 60 years. This collection begins in 2000, the game changing year that Pantheon released the graphic novels Jimmy Corrigan and David Boring. Originally serialized as “alternative” comics, they went on to confirm the critical and commercial viability of graphic literature. Via its various authors, this collection functions as a valuable readers’ guide for fans, academics, and librarians, tracing the current comics renaissance from its beginnings and creative growth to the cutting edge of today’s artists. This volume includes Daniel Clowes (Ghost World) in conversation with novelist Jonathan Lethem (Fortress of Solitude), Chris Ware, Jonathan Franzen (The Corrections), John Hodgman (The Daily Show, The Areas of My Expertise, The New York Times Book Review), David Hajdu (The 10-Cent Plague), Douglas Wolk (Publishers Weekly, author of the Eisner award-winning Reading Comics), Frank Miller (Sin City and The Spirit film director) in conversation with Will Eisner (The Spirit’s creator), Gerard Jones’ (Men of Tomorrow), Brian Doherty (author Radicals of Capitalism, This is Burning Man) and critics Ken Parille (Comic Art), Jeet Heer (The National Post), R.C. Harvey (biographer of Milton Caniff), and Donald Phelps (author of the landmark book of comics criticism,Reading the Funnies). Best American Comics Writing also features a cover by nationally known satirist Drew Friedman (The New York Observer, Old Jewish Comedians) in which Friedman asks, “tongue-in-cheek,” if cartoonists are the new literati, what must their critics look like?
Author : Michael Barrier
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Humor
ISBN : 9780520283909
Funnybooks is the story of the most popular American comic books of the 1940s and 1950s, those published under the Dell label. For a time, “Dell Comics Are Good Comics” was more than a slogan—it was a simple statement of fact. Many of the stories written and drawn by people like Carl Barks (Donald Duck, Uncle Scrooge), John Stanley (Little Lulu), and Walt Kelly (Pogo) repay reading and rereading by educated adults even today, decades after they were published as disposable entertainment for children. Such triumphs were improbable, to say the least, because midcentury comics were so widely dismissed as trash by angry parents, indignant librarians, and even many of the people who published them. It was all but miraculous that a few great cartoonists were able to look past that nearly universal scorn and grasp the artistic potential of their medium. With clarity and enthusiasm, Barrier explains what made the best stories in the Dell comic books so special. He deftly turns a complex and detailed history into an expressive narrative sure to appeal to an audience beyond scholars and historians.
Author : Chris Ware
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Comic books, strips, etc
ISBN : 0618718761
Collects original comic strips from American authors and illustrators published in 2007 in graphic novels, newspapers, magazines, and on the Internet.
Author : John Carlin,Paul Karasik,Brian Walker,Stanley Crouch,Hammer Museum,Museum of Contemporary Art (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 341 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2005-01-01
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780300113174
Presents the work of America's most popular and influential comic artists, and includes critical essays accompanying each artist's drawings.
Author : Denis Kitchen,Stan Lee
Publisher : Dark Horse Comics
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Comic books, strips, etc
ISBN : 9781616552589
In 1974, legendary Marvel Comics publisher Stan Lee approached underground pioneer Denis Kitchen and offered a way for them to collaborate. Their resulting series was called Comix Book and featured work by many of the top underground cartoonists including Joel Beck, Kim Deitch, Justin Green, Harvey Pekar, Trina Robbins, Art Spiegelman (first national appearance of Maus), Skip Williamson, and S. Clay Wilson. The Best of Comix Book showcases 150-pages of classic underground comix (printed on newsprint, as they originally appeared), many never before reprinted.
Author : James Patterson
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 527 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2015-10-06
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780544527966
This anthology of 20 short stories features some of today’s best mystery authors—from Lee Child to Jeffrey Deaver and Joyce Carol Oates. For the 2015 edition of The Best American Mystery Stories, guest editor James Patterson presents twenty tales with all the tension, drama, and visceral emotion of Oscar-worthy cinema. These stories features characters who must make desperate choices: an imaginative bank-robbing couple, a vengeful high school shooter, a lovesick heiress who will do anything for her man, and many others. In one standout entry, Michael Connelly and Dennis Lehane team up to send legendary detective Harry Bosch after a child abductor. The Best American Mystery Stories, 2015 includes Tomiko M. Breland, Brendan DuBois, Janette Turner Hospital, Theresa E. Lehr, Doug Allyn, Andrew Bourelle, Joseph D’Agnese, Scott Grand, John M. Floyd, Steven Heighton, Richard Lange, Theresa E. Lehr, Lee Martin, and others. “These edgy tales strike hard and fast but Leave vivid memories behind.”—Kirkus
Author : GB Tran
Publisher : Ballantine Group
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2013-05-01
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN : 9780345544490
A superb new graphic memoir in which an inspired artist/storyteller reveals the road that brought his family to where they are today: Vietnamerica GB Tran is a young Vietnamese American artist who grew up distant from (and largely indifferent to) his family’s history. Born and raised in South Carolina as a son of immigrants, he knew that his parents had fled Vietnam during the fall of Saigon. But even as they struggled to adapt to life in America, they preferred to forget the past—and to focus on their children’s future. It was only in his late twenties that GB began to learn their extraordinary story. When his last surviving grandparents die within months of each other, GB visits Vietnam for the first time and begins to learn the tragic history of his family, and of the homeland they left behind. In this family saga played out in the shadow of history, GB uncovers the root of his father’s remoteness and why his mother had remained in an often fractious marriage; why his grandfather had abandoned his own family to fight for the Viet Cong; why his grandmother had had an affair with a French soldier. GB learns that his parents had taken harrowing flight from Saigon during the final hours of the war not because they thought America was better but because they were afraid of what would happen if they stayed. They entered America—a foreign land they couldn’t even imagine—where family connections dissolved and shared history was lost within a span of a single generation. In telling his family’s story, GB finds his own place in this saga of hardship and heroism. Vietnamerica is a visually stunning portrait of survival, escape, and reinvention—and of the gift of the American immigrants’ dream, passed on to their children. Vietnamerica is an unforgettable story of family revelation and reconnection—and a new graphic-memoir classic.
Author : Alison Bechdel,Jessica Abel,Matt Madden
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 359 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN : 9780547333625
A collection of the best graphic pieces published in 2010.
Author : Ron Goulart
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0785355901
Author : Lorrie Moore,Heidi Pitlor
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 985 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2015-10-06
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780544056060
Witness the ever-changing history and identity of America in this collection of 40 stories collected from the first 100 years of this bestselling series. For the centennial celebration of this annual series, The Best American Short Stories, master of the form Lorrie Moore selects forty stories from the more than two thousand that were published in previous editions. Series editor Heidi Pitlor recounts behind-the-scenes anecdotes and examines, decade by decade, the trends captured over a hundred years. Together, the stories and commentary offer an extraordinary guided tour through a century of literature with what Moore calls “all its wildnesses of character and voice.” These forty stories represent their eras but also stand the test of time. Here is Ernest Hemingway’s first published story and a classic by William Faulkner, who admitted in his biographical note that he began to write “as an aid to love-making.” Nancy Hale’s story describes far-reaching echoes of the Holocaust; Tillie Olsen’s story expresses the desperation of a single mother; James Baldwin depicts the bonds of brotherhood and music. Here is Raymond Carver’s “minimalism,” a term he disliked, and Grace Paley’s “secular Yiddishkeit.” Here are the varied styles of Donald Barthelme, Charles Baxter, and Jamaica Kincaid. From Junot Díaz to Mary Gaitskill, from ZZ Packer to Sherman Alexie, these writers and stories explore the different things it means to be American.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Comic books, strips, etc
ISBN : 0544106008