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The Best American Comics Criticism

Ben Schwartz
The Best American Comics Criticism Book PDF

Author : Ben Schwartz
Publisher : Fantagraphics Books
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2010-05-25
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781606991480

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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?

The Best American Comics 2019

Jillian Tamaki,Bill Kartalopoulos
The Best American Comics 2019 Book PDF

Author : Jillian Tamaki,Bill Kartalopoulos
Publisher : Best American Series (R)
Page : 409 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN : 9780358067283

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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.

The Best American Comics 2017

Ben Katchor,Bill Kartalopoulos
The Best American Comics 2017 Book PDF

Author : Ben Katchor,Bill Kartalopoulos
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 403 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN : 9780544750364

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Award-winning cartoonist Ben Katchor picks the best graphic pieces of the year.

The Best American Comics 2007

Chris Ware
The Best American Comics 2007 Book PDF

Author : Chris Ware
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Comic books, strips, etc
ISBN : 0618718761

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Collects original comic strips from American authors and illustrators published in 2007 in graphic novels, newspapers, magazines, and on the Internet.

The Best American Comics 2013

Jeff Smith,Jessica Abel,Matt Madden
The Best American Comics 2013 Book PDF

Author : Jeff Smith,Jessica Abel,Matt Madden
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : American literature
ISBN : 0547995466

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The Best American Comics 2013 by Jeff Smith,Jessica Abel,Matt Madden Pdf

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

American Comics: A History

Jeremy Dauber
American Comics A History Book PDF

Author : Jeremy Dauber
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 593 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2021-11-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9780393635614

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The sweeping story of cartoons, comic strips, and graphic novels and their hold on the American imagination. Comics have conquered America. From our multiplexes, where Marvel and DC movies reign supreme, to our television screens, where comics-based shows like The Walking Dead have become among the most popular in cable history, to convention halls, best-seller lists, Pulitzer Prize–winning titles, and MacArthur Fellowship recipients, comics shape American culture, in ways high and low, superficial, and deeply profound. In American Comics, Columbia professor Jeremy Dauber takes readers through their incredible but little-known history, starting with the Civil War and cartoonist Thomas Nast, creator of the lasting and iconic images of Uncle Sam and Santa Claus; the golden age of newspaper comic strips and the first great superhero boom; the moral panic of the Eisenhower era, the Marvel Comics revolution, and the underground comix movement of the 1960s and ’70s; and finally into the twenty-first century, taking in the grim and gritty Dark Knights and Watchmen alongside the brilliant rise of the graphic novel by acclaimed practitioners like Art Spiegelman and Alison Bechdel. Dauber’s story shows not only how comics have changed over the decades but how American politics and culture have changed them. Throughout, he describes the origins of beloved comics, champions neglected masterpieces, and argues that we can understand how America sees itself through whose stories comics tell. Striking and revelatory, American Comics is a rich chronicle of the last 150 years of American history through the lens of its comic strips, political cartoons, superheroes, graphic novels, and more. FEATURING… • American Splendor • Archie • The Avengers • Kyle Baker • Batman • C. C. Beck • Black Panther • Captain America • Roz Chast • Walt Disney • Will Eisner • Neil Gaiman • Bill Gaines • Bill Griffith • Harley Quinn • Jack Kirby • Denis Kitchen • Krazy Kat • Harvey Kurtzman • Stan Lee • Little Orphan Annie • Maus • Frank Miller • Alan Moore • Mutt and Jeff • Gary Panter • Peanuts • Dav Pilkey • Gail Simone • Spider-Man • Superman • Dick Tracy • Wonder Wart-Hog • Wonder Woman • The Yellow Kid • Zap Comix … AND MANY MORE OF YOUR FAVORITES!

Masters of American Comics

John Carlin,Paul Karasik,Brian Walker,Stanley Crouch,Hammer Museum,Museum of Contemporary Art (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Masters of American Comics Book PDF

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 : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2005-01-01
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780300113174

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Masters of American Comics by John Carlin,Paul Karasik,Brian Walker,Stanley Crouch,Hammer Museum,Museum of Contemporary Art (Los Angeles, Calif.) Pdf

Presents the work of America's most popular and influential comic artists, and includes critical essays accompanying each artist's drawings.

Funnybooks

Michael Barrier
Funnybooks Book PDF

Author : Michael Barrier
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Humor
ISBN : 9780520283909

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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.

The Best American Comics 2014

Scott McCloud,Bill Kartalopoulos
The Best American Comics 2014 Book PDF

Author : Scott McCloud,Bill Kartalopoulos
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 405 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN : 9780544106000

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The Best American Comics 2014 by Scott McCloud,Bill Kartalopoulos Pdf

An anthology of top-selected graphic pieces published in American periodicals in 2013 showcases the work of both established and up-and-coming contributors.

Forbidden Adventures

Michael Vance
Forbidden Adventures Book PDF

Author : Michael Vance
Publisher : Praeger
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1996-07-30
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN : STANFORD:36105019183073

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A comprehensive history of a small, but important, comic book publisher, this work reflects the reading tastes of tens of millions of Americans during the Golden and Silver ages of comics (1934-1970). The earlier Sangor Shop reinvented itself as the American Comics Group and by 1967 had published over one thousand issues. ACG was a microcosm of the larger industry, publishing magazines in every major comic book genre. Best known titles include Herbie and Forbidden Worlds. It was ACG's Adventures into the Unknown that sparked a new genre—horror—which led to the Comics Code Authority, and industry-wide self censorship.

Stan Lee and the Rise and Fall of the American Comic Book

Jordan Raphael,Tom Spurgeon
Stan Lee and the Rise and Fall of the American Comic Book Book PDF

Author : Jordan Raphael,Tom Spurgeon
Publisher : Chicago Review Press
Page : 389 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2004-09-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781613742921

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Stan Lee and the Rise and Fall of the American Comic Book by Jordan Raphael,Tom Spurgeon Pdf

Based on interviews with Stan Lee and dozens of his colleagues and contemporaries, as well as extensive archival research, this book provides a professional history, an appreciation, and a critical exploration of the face of Marvel Comics. Recognized as a dazzling writer, a skilled editor, a relentless self-promoter, a credit hog, and a huckster, Stan Lee rose from his humble beginnings to ride the wave of the 1940s comic books boom and witness the current motion picture madness and comic industry woes. Included is a complete examination of the rise of Marvel Comics, Lee's work in the years of postwar prosperity, and his efforts in the 1960s to revitalize the medium after it had grown stale.

The Best American Comics 2016

Roz Chast,Bill Kartalopoulos
The Best American Comics 2016 Book PDF

Author : Roz Chast,Bill Kartalopoulos
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2016-10-04
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780544750548

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“There’s something thrilling about seeing people invent new ways to tell their story. To me, it’s proof that the art form of comics is healthy: it lives and grows and reinvents itself. It’s alive!” –Roz Chast, from the Introduction FEATURING Lynda Barry, Kate Beaton, Cece Bell, Geneviève Elverum, Ben Katchor, John Porcellino, Joe Sacco, Adrian Tomine, Chris Ware, Julia Wertz, and others Roz Chast, guest editor, was born in Brooklyn, New York. Her cartoons began appearing in The New Yorker in 1978. Since then she has published hundreds of cartoons and written or illustrated more than a dozen books. Her memoir Can’t We Talk About Something More Pleasant? was a #1 New York Times bestseller and a 2014 National Book Award Finalist. Bill Kartalopoulos, series editor, is a comics critic, educator, curator, and editor. He teaches courses about comics at Parsons and at the School of Visual Arts. He lives in Brooklyn, New York. For more information please visit: on-panel.com.

Post Americana #1 (of 6)

Steve Skroce
Post Americana 1 of 6 Book PDF

Author : Steve Skroce
Publisher : Image Comics
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2020-12-16
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN : PKEY:OCT200014

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Post Americana #1 (of 6) by Steve Skroce Pdf

From MAESTROS creator, WE STAND ON GUARD co-creator, and The Matrix storyboard artist STEVE SKROCE with coloring by Eisner Award-winning DAVE STEWART. The Cheyanne mountain installation, aka The BUBBLE, is the most sophisticated super bunker in the world. It was built to ensure the survival of America's executive branch of government and its most important citizens, should the unthinkable happen. When the world ended, the executive branch failed to reach the sanctuary, but the elite citizenry did. Eighty years later, one of their own has named himself the new President of the United States. His plan? Subjugate the survivors of the American Wasteland using the same bunker resources meant to rebuild it. The only thing standing in their way is a deadly Wasteland girl, hellbent on revenge!

The Rise of the American Comics Artist

Paul Williams,James Lyons
The Rise of the American Comics Artist Book PDF

Author : Paul Williams,James Lyons
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2010-11-11
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781604737936

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The Rise of the American Comics Artist by Paul Williams,James Lyons Pdf

Contributions by David M. Ball, Ian Gordon, Andrew Loman, Andrea A. Lunsford, James Lyons, Ana Merino, Graham J. Murphy, Chris Murray, Adam Rosenblatt, Julia Round, Joe Sutliff Sanders, Stephen Weiner, and Paul Williams Starting in the mid-1980s, a talented set of comics artists changed the American comic book industry forever by introducing adult sensibilities and aesthetic considerations into popular genres such as superhero comics and the newspaper strip. Frank Miller's Batman: The Dark Knight Returns (1986) and Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons's Watchmen (1987) revolutionized the former genre in particular. During this same period, underground and alternative genres began to garner critical acclaim and media attention beyond comics-specific outlets, as best represented by Art Spiegelman's Maus. Publishers began to collect, bind, and market comics as “graphic novels,” and these appeared in mainstream bookstores and in magazine reviews. The Rise of the American Comics Artist: Creators and Contexts brings together new scholarship surveying the production, distribution, and reception of American comics from this pivotal decade to the present. The collection specifically explores the figure of the comics creator—either as writer, as artist, or as writer and artist—in contemporary US comics, using creators as focal points to evaluate changes to the industry, its aesthetics, and its critical reception. The book also includes essays on landmark creators such as Joe Sacco, Art Spiegelman, and Chris Ware, as well as insightful interviews with Jeff Smith (Bone), Jim Woodring (Frank) and Scott McCloud (Understanding Comics). As comics have reached new audiences, through different material and electronic forms, the public's broad perception of what comics are has changed. The Rise of the American Comics Artist surveys the ways in which the figure of the creator has been at the heart of these evolutions.

Jack Kirby

Tom Scioli
Jack Kirby Book PDF

Author : Tom Scioli
Publisher : Ten Speed Graphic
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2020-07-14
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN : 9781984856913

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Jack Kirby by Tom Scioli Pdf

Told in vivid graphic novel form by a groundbreaking Eisner-nominated comics creator, the long-overdue biography of the legend who co-created Captain America, Iron Man, Black Panther, the Fantastic Four, the X-Men, and many more superhero favorites. “A fast-paced celebration of an underheralded legend within the comic-book industry.”—Kirkus Reviews NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY LIBRARY JOURNAL This sweeping, full-color comic book biography tells the complete life story of Jack Kirby, co-creator of some of the most enduring superheroes and villains of the twentieth century for Marvel Comics, DC Comics, and more. Critically acclaimed graphic novelist Tom Scioli breathes visual life into Kirby's life story--from his days growing up in New York during the Great Depression and discovering a love for science fiction and cartoons to his time on the frontlines in the European theatre of World War II where he experienced the type of action and adventure he'd later imbue his comic pages with, and on to his world-changing collaborations at Marvel with Stan Lee, where the pair redefined comics as a part of pop culture. Just as every great superhero needs a villain to overcome, Kirby's story also includes his struggles to receive the recognition and compensation that he believed his work deserved. Scioli captures his moves from Marvel to DC and back again, showing how Kirby himself and later his family fought to preserve his artistic legacy. Drawn from an unparalleled imagination and a life as exciting as his comic book tales, Kirby's super-creations have influenced subsequent generations of creatives in the comics field and beyond. Now, readers can experience the life and times of a comics titan through the medium that made him famous.