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The Search for Smilin' Ed

Kim Deitch
The Search for Smilin Ed Book PDF

Author : Kim Deitch
Publisher : Fantagraphics Books
Page : 170 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2010-01-01
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN : 9781606993248

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The Search for Smilin' Ed by Kim Deitch Pdf

Launched on his latest investigation by a remark from his brother about a shared childhood favorite (“Y’know, I heard that when Smilin’ Ed died... his body was never found!”), Deitch begins to uncover some truly amazing things about the kiddie-show host and his malevolent sidekick, Froggy the Gremlin. Meanwhile, Deitch’s muse and nemesis Waldo the Cat abandons Deitch to hang out with some demon buddies, and soon both Waldo and Deitch are closing in on the mysteries of Smilin’ Ed and Froggy. Ranging across the entire twentieth century, replete with flashbacks, stories within stories, and guest appearances from other Deitch regulars, The Search for Smilin’ Ed! is a narrative whirligig that shows Deitch at his wildest and woolliest. For those whose heads have started to spin at the complexity of “Deitch world,” Deitch scholar Bill Kartalopoulos offers a lengthy essay on the ins and outs of this ever-evolving, ever-expanding world where fantasy, reality, and satire combine, clash, and are sometimes downright indistinguishable. p.p1 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 13.9px Arial; color: #424242}

Shadowland

Kim Deitch
Shadowland Book PDF

Author : Kim Deitch
Publisher : Fantagraphics Books
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2006-01-01
Category : Carnival owners
ISBN : 9781560977711

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Shadowland by Kim Deitch Pdf

Over a hundred years ago, a scout ship from a mysterious alien vessel crash-landed on Earth, where it was discovered by a seven-year-old boy named Al Ledicker. And so begins the confounding series of events that Kim Deitch, veteran underground cartoonist and creator of Pantheon's acclaimed graphic novel The Boulevard of Broken Dreams, has been chronicling for the last 20 years in a series of interrelated stories that have appeared in a variety of magazines—and now finally collected into one book. p.p1 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 13.9px Arial; color: #424242}

Deitch's Pictorama

Kim Deitch,Seth Deitch
Deitch s Pictorama Book PDF

Author : Kim Deitch,Seth Deitch
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Graphic novels
ISBN : 1560979526

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Deitch's Pictorama by Kim Deitch,Seth Deitch Pdf

Presenting a new type of graphic fiction from a legendary family inAmerican cartooning. Underground cartoonist Kim Deitch has recruited his entirecast of siblings to produce a unique, all-new "picto-fiction" pocket book.Deitch's Pictorama leads off with Kim's comic "The Sunshine Girl." Thenit's time for Seth's prose short story "Children of Aruf," about a man and hisdog... in a world where dogs talk. Third up is "Unlikely Hours," a paranoidpicto-story about a conspiracy of sentient rats written by Seth and illustratedby Kim. Next comes "The Golem," once again written by Seth and decorated with aseries of superb pencil illustrations by Simon, a prose novella about themythical Jewish monster/protector. Kim wraps with "The Cop on the Beat, the Manin the Moon and Me," one last comic - this one autobiographical. The bookfeatures an introduction by the Academy Award-winning animator, cartoonist andillustrator Gene (Tom and Jerry) Deitch, who happens to be the proudfather of the trio.

Reincarnation Stories

Kim Deitch
Reincarnation Stories Book PDF

Author : Kim Deitch
Publisher : Fantagraphics Books
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2019-10-16
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN : 9781683962618

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Kim Deitch made his name as an “underground” cartoonist — a contemporary of Spiegelman, Crumb, et. al. — but over the last three decades has simply been one of the most vital graphic novelists the medium has to offer, including acknowledged classics such as The Boulevard of Broken Dreams, Alias the Cat, and The Search for Smilin’ Ed. His new graphic novel, Reincarnation Stories, feels like the apotheosis of his career, an ambitiously sprawling tour de force exploring the concept of reincarnation. When Deitch was four years old, he began having memories of a time when he wore glasses. The problem was, he had never actually worn glasses. Then, one day, young Deitch is sitting outside his apartment building when an elderly man approaches him, excited. “Is it possible? Sid! SID PINCUS! Good God, man! You’ve changed. You’re smaller! And where are your glasses?” From here, Deitch weaves a dizzying path of reincarnation stories that spans the past, present, and future of human history, with appearances by Frank Sinatra, monkey gods, a forgotten cowboy star of the silver screen, a tribe of Native Americans that successfully resettled on the moon, and a parallel reality where Deitch himself is the megasuccessful creator of a series of kids books about a superhero called Young Avatar, who helps marginalized souls lead better lives and in his secret identity works as a carpenter. Did we mention Deitch’s spiritual nemesis (an incarnation of Judas Iscariot), Waldo the Cat? Deitch’s storytelling mastery has never been more fully on display that this rich tapestry of a graphic novel, certain to be a staple on 2019 “Best of ” year-end lists.

Critical Approaches to Comics

Matthew J. Smith,Randy Duncan
Critical Approaches to Comics Book PDF

Author : Matthew J. Smith,Randy Duncan
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 590 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2012-03-22
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781136884733

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Critical Approaches to Comics by Matthew J. Smith,Randy Duncan Pdf

Critical Approaches to Comics offers students a deeper understanding of the artistic and cultural significance of comic books and graphic novels by introducing key theories and critical methods for analyzing comics. Each chapter explains and then demonstrates a critical method or approach, which students can then apply to interrogate and critique the meanings and forms of comic books, graphic novels, and other sequential art. The authors introduce a wide range of critical perspectives on comics, including fandom, genre, intertextuality, adaptation, gender, narrative, formalism, visual culture, and much more. As the first comprehensive introduction to critical methods for studying comics, Critical Approaches to Comics is the ideal textbook for a variety of courses in comics studies. Contributors: Henry Jenkins, David Berona, Joseph Witek, Randy Duncan, Marc Singer, Pascal Lefevre, Andrei Molotiu, Jeff McLaughlin, Amy Kiste Nyberg, Christopher Murray, Mark Rogers, Ian Gordon, Stanford Carpenter, Matthew J. Smith, Brad J. Ricca, Peter Coogan, Leonard Rifas, Jennifer K. Stuller, Ana Merino, Mel Gibson, Jeffrey A. Brown, Brian Swafford

Henry Speaks for Himself

John Liney
Henry Speaks for Himself Book PDF

Author : John Liney
Publisher : Fantagraphics Books
Page : 161 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2014-03-05
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN : 9781606997338

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Henry Speaks for Himself by John Liney Pdf

What is it about odd-looking comic strip characters that catch the public’s attention? Carl Anderson’s classic comic strip character Henry was certainly not your average-looking youngster, with knobby knees, a pencil neck, and a bulbous, bald head but, for years, he entertained millions of readers worldwide with his pantomime pranks. He was also the subject of a long-running comic book series, with one significant difference from the newspaper strip – in the comic books, Henry spoke! Written and drawn by John Liney, who also handled art chores on the daily Henry strip, these stories were done in a Tintin-esque clean-line art style that made them attractive to the younger set, but with writing clever enough to cause the adults to chuckle while reading to their children. These 1940s-’50s stories have never before been reprinted, and this collection provides a long-overdue look at a forgotten “kid’s comic” masterpiece.

Projections

Jared Gardner
Projections Book PDF

Author : Jared Gardner
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2012-01-11
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780804781787

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Projections by Jared Gardner Pdf

“A fascinating read for anyone with an interest in the graphic novel, its origins, and its continuing evolution as a literary art form.” —Midwest Book Review When Art Spiegelman’s Maus won the Pulitzer Prize in 1992, it marked a new era for comics. Comics are now taken seriously by the same academic and cultural institutions that long dismissed the form. And the visibility of comics continues to increase, with alternative cartoonists now published by major presses and more comics-based films arriving on the screen each year. Projections argues that the seemingly sudden visibility of comics is no accident. Beginning with the parallel development of narrative comics at the turn of the 20th century, comics have long been a form that invites—indeed requires—readers to help shape the stories being told. Today, with the rise of interactive media, the creative techniques and the reading practices comics have been experimenting with for a century are now in universal demand. Recounting the history of comics from the nineteenth-century rise of sequential comics to the newspaper strip, through comic books and underground comix, to the graphic novel and webcomics, Gardner shows why they offer the best models for rethinking storytelling in the twenty-first century. In the process, he reminds us of some beloved characters from our past and present, including Happy Hooligan, Krazy Kat, Crypt Keeper, and Mr. Natural. “Provocative . . . examine[s] the progress of the form from a variety of surprising angles.” —Jonathan Barnes, Times Literary Supplement “A landmark study.” —Charles Hatfield, California State University, Northridge, author of Alternative Comics: An Emerging Literature “A succinct and savvy cultural history of American comics.” —Hillary Chute, University of Chicago

Alias the Cat!

Kim Deitch
Alias the Cat Book PDF

Author : Kim Deitch
Publisher : Pantheon
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Cat dolls
ISBN : 0375424318

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Alias the Cat! by Kim Deitch Pdf

Alias the Cat was previously published as three separate comic books under the names The Stuff of Dreams, the Stuff of Dreams #2, and the Stuff of Dreams #3."--T.p. verso.

Musicmakers of Network Radio

Jim Cox
Musicmakers of Network Radio Book PDF

Author : Jim Cox
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 381 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2014-01-10
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780786489626

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Musicmakers of Network Radio by Jim Cox Pdf

Before television, radio was the sole source of simultaneous mass entertainment in America. The medium served as launching pad for the careers of countless future stars of stage and screen. Singers and conductors became legends by offering musical entertainment directly to Americans in their homes, vehicles, and places of work and play. This volume presents biographies of 24 renowned performers who spent a significant portion of their careers in front of a radio microphone. Profiles of individuals like Steve Allen, Rosemary Clooney, Bob Crosby, Johnny Desmond, Jo Stafford, and Percy Faith, along with groups such as the Ink Spots and the King's Men, reveal the private lives behind the public personas and bring to life the icons and ambiance of a bygone era.

Belgian Lace from Hell

Patrick Rosenkranz
Belgian Lace from Hell Book PDF

Author : Patrick Rosenkranz
Publisher : Fantagraphics Books
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2017-05-31
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781606999998

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Belgian Lace from Hell by Patrick Rosenkranz Pdf

This book includes all of the cartoonist's work from Zap Comix #12 through #15; stories published in the horror anthology Taboo; the three appearances of his outrageous, race-bending character Meadows from Weirdo; illustrations for Grimm and Andersen fairy tales; as well as book jackets and album covers. Plus, dozens of privately commissioned paintings, including the Seven Deadly Sins (Just Say Yes!) and inner landscapes peopled with pirates, ogres, leprechauns, Cyclops, the Baby Jesus, and his favorites players, Captain Pissgums, Star-Eyed Stella, and the Checkered Demon. It also includes an even score of remarkably rendered paintings, both unpublished and virtually unseen, that he created between the 2006 publication of The Art of S. Clay Wilson and The Night the Lights Went Out in 2008, when Wilson’s career spiraled out of control.

All Waldo Comics

Kim Deitch
All Waldo Comics Book PDF

Author : Kim Deitch
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Cats
ISBN : 1560970782

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All Waldo Comics by Kim Deitch Pdf

All Waldo Comics is a completely different sort of cat book. Waldo is a secret agent, a murderer, an alcoholic hallucination, a drug-fiend and a big blue cat with the number 1 one his belly. These are the adventures of Waldo the Cat from 1969 to the present. Kim Deitch is the best-kept secret in the avant-comix world. He's been going at it for 25 years, with only a cult following to support him, yet his work is astounding.' - Art Spiegelman'

Breaking the Frames

Marc Singer
Breaking the Frames Book PDF

Author : Marc Singer
Publisher : University of Texas Press
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2019-01-09
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781477317129

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Breaking the Frames by Marc Singer Pdf

Comics studies has reached a crossroads. Graphic novels have never received more attention and legitimation from scholars, but new canons and new critical discourses have created tensions within a field built on the populist rhetoric of cultural studies. As a result, comics studies has begun to cleave into distinct camps—based primarily in cultural or literary studies—that attempt to dictate the boundaries of the discipline or else resist disciplinarity itself. The consequence is a growing disconnect in the ways that comics scholars talk to each other—or, more frequently, do not talk to each other or even acknowledge each other’s work. Breaking the Frames: Populism and Prestige in Comics Studies surveys the current state of comics scholarship, interrogating its dominant schools, questioning their mutual estrangement, and challenging their propensity to champion the comics they study. Marc Singer advocates for greater disciplinary diversity and methodological rigor in comics studies, making the case for a field that can embrace more critical and oppositional perspectives. Working through extended readings of some of the most acclaimed comics creators—including Marjane Satrapi, Alan Moore, Kyle Baker, and Chris Ware—Singer demonstrates how comics studies can break out of the celebratory frameworks and restrictive canons that currently define the field to produce new scholarship that expands our understanding of comics and their critics.

Comics and Stuff

Henry Jenkins
Comics and Stuff Book PDF

Author : Henry Jenkins
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 425 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2020-04-14
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781479831258

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Comics and Stuff by Henry Jenkins Pdf

Considers how comics display our everyday stuff—junk drawers, bookshelves, attics—as a way into understanding how we represent ourselves now For most of their history, comics were widely understood as disposable—you read them and discarded them, and the pulp paper they were printed on decomposed over time. Today, comic books have been rebranded as graphic novels—clothbound high-gloss volumes that can be purchased in bookstores, checked out of libraries, and displayed proudly on bookshelves. They are reviewed by serious critics and studied in university classrooms. A medium once considered trash has been transformed into a respectable, if not elite, genre. While the American comics of the past were about hyperbolic battles between good and evil, most of today’s graphic novels focus on everyday personal experiences. Contemporary culture is awash with stuff. They give vivid expression to a culture preoccupied with the processes of circulation and appraisal, accumulation and possession. By design, comics encourage the reader to scan the landscape, to pay attention to the physical objects that fill our lives and constitute our familiar surroundings. Because comics take place in a completely fabricated world, everything is there intentionally. Comics are stuff; comics tell stories about stuff; and they display stuff. When we use the phrase “and stuff” in everyday speech, we often mean something vague, something like “etcetera.” In this book, stuff refers not only to physical objects, but also to the emotions, sentimental attachments, and nostalgic longings that we express—or hold at bay—through our relationships with stuff. In Comics and Stuff, his first solo authored book in over a decade, pioneering media scholar Henry Jenkins moves through anthropology, material culture, literary criticism, and art history to resituate comics in the cultural landscape. Through over one hundred full-color illustrations, using close readings of contemporary graphic novels, Jenkins explores how comics depict stuff and exposes the central role that stuff plays in how we curate our identities, sustain memory, and make meaning. Comics and Stuff presents an innovative new way of thinking about comics and graphic novels that will change how we think about our stuff and ourselves.

Leaping Tall Buildings

Anonim
Leaping Tall Buildings Book PDF

Author : Anonim
Publisher : powerHouse Books
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2012-06-05
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN : 9781576876206

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Leaping Tall Buildings by Anonim Pdf

Some are mild mannered geeks, others mad geniuses or street-smart city dwellers driven to action. These are the men and women behind the masks and tights of America’s most beloved superheroes. But these aren’t the stories of the heroes’ hidden alter egos or secret identities…these are the stories of their creators! Leaping Tall Buildings: The Origins of American Comics gives you the truth about the history of the American comic book—straight from the revolutionary artists and writers behind them. From the founders of the popular comics website Graphic NYC—writer Christopher Irving and photographer Seth Kushner—comes the firsthand accounts of the comic book’s story, from its birth in the late 1930s to its current renaissance on movie screens and digital readers everywhere. Kushner’s evocative photography captures the subjects that Irving profiles in a hard-hitting narrative style derived from personal interviews with the legends of the art, all of which is accompanied by examples of their work in the form of original art, sketches, and final panels and covers. The creators profiled include Captain America creator Joe Simon, Marvel guru Stan Lee, Mad magazine’s fold-out artist Al Jaffee, visionary illustrator Neal Adams (Batman), underground paragon Art Spiegelman (Maus), X-Men writer Chris Claremont, artist/writer/director Frank Miller (Sin City, 300), comic analyst Scott McCloud (Understanding Comics), American Splendor’s Harvey Pekar, painter Alex Ross (Kingdom Come), multitalented artist and designer Chris Ware (Acme Novelty Library), artist Jill Thompson (Sandman), and more. Leaping Tall Buildings, like comics themselves, uses both words and images to tell the true story of the comic’s birth and evolution in America. It is a comprehensive look at the medium unlike any other ever compiled covering high and low art, mass market work and niche innovations. It is the story of an art form and an insider’s look at the creative process of the artists who bring our heroes to life.

A Shroud for Waldo

Kim Deitch
A Shroud for Waldo Book PDF

Author : Kim Deitch
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 57 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Humor
ISBN : 1560970812

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A Shroud for Waldo by Kim Deitch Pdf

'Kim Deitch is the best-kept secret in the avant-comix world. His work is astounding. It keeps reaching new heights and depths.' - Art Spiegelman 'All of Deitch's work is bristling with fun, fun that sometines flows in a current so thick it seems like terror. He is one of the best cartoonists who ever lived.' - Jim Woodring