[PDF] Comics eBook

Author : Benjamin Woo
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
Page : 299 pages
File Size : 30,6 MB
Release : 2021-07-29
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1496834666

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Contributions by Bart Beaty, T. Keith Edmunds, Eike Exner, Christopher J. Galdieri, Ivan Lima Gomes, Charles Hatfield, Franny Howes, John A. Lent, Amy Louise Maynard, Shari Sabeti, Rob Salkowitz, Kalervo A. Sinervo, Jeremy Stoll, Valerie Wieskamp, Adriana Estrada Wilson, and Benjamin Woo The Comics World: Comic Books, Graphic Novels, and Their Publics is the first collection to explicitly examine the production, circulation, and reception of comics from a social-scientific point of view. Designed to promote interdisciplinary dialogue about theory and methods in comics studies, this volume draws on approaches from fields as diverse as sociology, political science, history, folklore, communication studies, and business, among others, to study the social life of comics and graphic novels. Taking the concept of a “comics world”—that is, the collection of people, roles, and institutions that “produce” comics as they are—as its organizing principle, the book asks readers to attend to the contexts that shape how comics move through societies and cultures. Each chapter explores a specific comics world or particular site where comics meet one of their publics, such as artists and creators; adaptors; critics and journalists; convention-goers; scanners; fans; and comics scholars themselves. Through their research, contributors demonstrate some of the ways that people participate in comics worlds and how the relationships created in these spaces can provide different perspectives on comics and comics studies. Moving beyond the page, The Comics World explores the complexity of the lived reality of the comics world: how comics and graphic novels matter to different people at different times, within a social space shared with others.

Author : Mark Waid
Publisher : Marvel Entertainment
Page : 381 pages
File Size : 20,35 MB
Release : 2018-09-20
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN : 1302506285

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Collects Captain America: Sentinel Of Liberty #1-12 and material from Sentinel Of Liberty Rough Cut. During his height of popularity in the late 1990s, Captain America was given a second monthly title-and it's collected here in full! Featuring Cap stories from across the ages! With the invaders in World War II! With Iron Man after his iceberg rescue! Against terrorists with S.H.I.E.L.D.! Guest-starring the Captain America of the Revolutionary War, Sharon Carter, both Human Torches and the Falcon, and featuring the official origin of Bucky!

Author : Ron Goulart
Publisher : Collectors Press, Inc.
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 27,79 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Comic book covers
ISBN : 1888054387

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A history of American comic books told almost entirely through reprinted comic book covers.

Author : Cara Delevingne
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 351 pages
File Size : 26,91 MB
Release : 2021-11-09
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN : 0744058511

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120 inspiring visual stories on environmentalism from key figures, charities, activists, and artists. The Most Important Comic Book On Earth is a global collaboration for planetary change, bringing together a diverse team of 300 leading environmentalists, artists, authors, actors, filmmakers, musicians, and more to present over 120 stories to save the world. Whether it’s inspirational tales from celebrity names such as Cara Delevingne and Andy Serkis, hilarious webcomics from War and Peas and Ricky Gervais, artworks by leading illustrators David Mack and Tula Lotay, calls to action from activists George Monbiot and Jane Goodall, or powerful stories by Brian Azzarello and Amy Chu, each of the comics in this anthology will support projects and organizations fighting to save the planet and Rewrite Extinction.

Author : Aaron Reynolds
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 42,76 MB
Release : 2016-11-01
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 0147516587

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A funny graphic-novel series by Aaron Reynolds, New York Times bestselling author of Creepy Carrots! His grandpa invented fire. His dad invented the wheel. How will Caveboy Dave leave his mark? Dave Unga-Bunga has always been more scrawny than brawny. This is a major problem when your village expects you to become a meat-bringer. At age twelve, all young cave-people must stalk through the eerie mushroom forests for a prehistoric beast the village can feast on. But Dave would much rather invent stuff for a better life—like underwear to make loincloths less itchy and cutlery to make eating less filthy. Can Dave save his group by inventing the perfect defense against a bloodthirsty pokeyhorn? Or will he MEET HIS DOOM? First in a new series, More Scrawny Than Brawny delivers irresistible characters, big thrills, and even bigger laughs. "Imagine a prehistoric version of Wimpy Kid meets Captain Underpants." —Boys' Life

Author : Jacqueline Danziger-Russell
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 39,66 MB
Release : 2013
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN : 0810883759

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In America, comics and comic books have often been associated with adolescent male fantasy--muscle-bound superheroes and scantily clad women. Nonetheless, comics have also been read and enjoyed by girls. While there have been many strong representations of women throughout their history, the comics of today have evolved and matured, becoming a potent medium in which to explore the female experience, particularly that of girlhood and adolescence. In Girls and Their Comics: Finding a Female Voice in Comic Book Narrative, Jacqueline Danziger-Russell contends that comics have a unique place in the representation of female characters. She discusses the overall history of the comic book, paying special attention to girls' comics, showing how such works relate to a female point of view. While examining the concept of visual literacy, Danziger-Russell asserts that comics are an excellent space in which the marginalized voices of girls may be expressed. This volume also includes a chapter on manga (Japanese comics), which explains the genesis of girls' comics in Japan and their popularity with girls in the United States. Including interviews with librarians, comic creators, and girls who read comics and manga, Girls and Their Comics is an important examination of the growing interest in comic books among young females and will appeal to a wide audience, including literary theorists, teachers, librarians, popular culture and women's studies scholars, and comic book historians.

Author : John Miller
Publisher : Krause Publications
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 11,28 MB
Release : 2005-09-20
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN : 9780873499934

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This reference features more than 5,000 new issues and more than 50,000 new facts about comic books published in North America in the last 70 vears.

Author : Shawna Kidman
Publisher : University of California Press
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 28,59 MB
Release : 2019-04-30
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 0520297555

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Comic Books Incorporated tells the story of the US comic book business, reframing the history of the medium through an industrial and transmedial lens. Comic books wielded their influence from the margins and in-between spaces of the entertainment business for half a century before moving to the center of mainstream film and television production. This extraordinary history begins at the medium’s origin in the 1930s, when comics were a reviled, disorganized, and lowbrow mass medium, and surveys critical moments along the way—market crashes, corporate takeovers, upheavals in distribution, and financial transformations. Shawna Kidman concludes this revisionist history in the early 2000s, when Hollywood had fully incorporated comic book properties and strategies into its business models and transformed the medium into the heavily exploited, exceedingly corporate, and yet highly esteemed niche art form we know so well today.

Author : Scott McCloud
Publisher : William Morrow Paperbacks
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 36,49 MB
Release : 2006-09-05
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780060780944

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Presents instructions for aspiring cartoonists on the art form's key techniques, sharing concise and accessible guidelines on such principles as capturing the human condition through words and images in a minimalist style.

Author : Alex Grand
Publisher : Comic Book Historians
Page : 112 pages
File Size : 16,66 MB
Release : 2021-12-10
Category :
ISBN : 9781736764770

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Celebrate illustrator-writer Howard Chaykin's life and works through a career spanning zine that encompasses his life, controversies, and biographical interview that starts when he was born in 1950 through his childhood reading comic books and watching films during the 1960s, his training under Gil Kane, Wally Wood and Neal Adams in the late 1960s through the early 1970s, his early work at Marvel, DC, Atlas/Seaboard, Byron Preiss, Heavy Metal and on into American Flagg! for First Comics, as well as The Shadow, Time Square, Blackhawk, Black Kiss, Cyberella with Don Cameron, his television career including the 1990s Flash TV show, Legend with Russ Heath, Hawkgirl with Walt Simonson, his more recent Marvel career in 2012, Black Kiss 2, the controversy surrounding the Divided States of Hysteria, and finally his ode to comic history, Hey Kids! Comics!