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Author : Dan Gearino
Publisher : Swallow Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 39,86 MB
Release : 2017
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780804011907
Award-winning business journalist Dan Gearino leads a tour through the world of comic shops, telling the story of the direct market from its 1970s origins to today. Includes profiles of forty notable shops in the U.S. and Canada, and a close look at The Laughing Ogre in Columbus.
Author : Milt Gross
Publisher : Gefen Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 12,61 MB
Release : 2009
Category : American wit and humor, Pictorial
ISBN : 9781600105463
Contains reprints of the comic art of Milt Gross and a detailed biography of the artist with rare cartoons, advertisements, still photographs, and more. Features a fold-in introduction by "Mad" magazine's Al Jaffee.
Author : Kurt Busiek
Publisher : Titan
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 11,34 MB
Release : 2009
Category : Avengers (Fictitious characters)
ISBN : 9781840238563
For the first time in comic book history, two of the greatest teams of all time - the Justice League of America and The Avengers - join forces in a galaxy-crossing quest to battle Krona, the god-like being whose destructive quest for the Ultimate Truth threatens all creation with annihilation.
Author : Ron Goulart
Publisher :
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 49,73 MB
Release : 2001
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780785355908
Author : Dan Gearino
Publisher : Ohio University Press
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 31,44 MB
Release : 2017-10-13
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0804040834
The modern comic book shop was born in the early 1970s. Its rise was due in large part to Phil Seuling, the entrepreneur whose direct market model allowed shops to get comics straight from the publishers. Stores could then better customize their offerings and independent publishers could access national distribution. Shops opened up a space for quirky ideas to gain an audience and helped transform small-press series, from Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles to Bone, into media giants. Comic Shop is the first book to trace the history of these cultural icons. Dan Gearino brings us from their origins to the present-day, when the rise of digital platforms and a changing retail landscape have the industry at a crossroads. When the book was first published in 2017, Gearino had spent a year with stores around the country, following how they navigated the business. For this updated and expanded paperback edition, he covers the wild retail landscape of 2017 and 2018, a time that was brutal for stores and rich for comics as an art form. Along the way he interviews pioneers of comics retailing and other important players, including many women; top creators; and those who continue to push the business in new directions. A revised guide to dozens of the most interesting shops around the United States and Canada is a bonus for fans.
Author : R. L. Stine
Publisher : Scholastic Inc.
Page : 173 pages
File Size : 44,56 MB
Release : 2015-09-29
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 0545841801
Reader beware--you choose the scare! GIVE YOURSELF GOOSEBUMPS! You're walking through a creepy part of town when you find a new comic shop--Milos Comics Dungeon. Dungeon is right. The place is dusty, dingy, and really dark. You can see the comics are awesome. But there’s something you can't see. Trouble. It’s waiting--for you.If you choose to go downstairs watch out for Milo the Mutant. He's got big, bad plans for you. What? You say you'd rather stay upstairs? Not such a great idea--unless you want to battle the worst villains in the history of comics! Do you have what it takes to be a superhero? The choice is yours in this scary GOOSEBUMPS adventure that's packed with over 20 super-spooky endings!
Author : Fernando Ruiz
Publisher : Archie Comic Publications
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 21,49 MB
Release : 2011-12-21
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 1619881888
Archie, Jughead, Betty & Veronica notice something strange is going on when a meteor crashes into the basement of the local comic shop! Everything seems fine until portals from other dimensions begin to appear. What comes out, however, is a who's who of classic Archie Comics characters! Featuring all-new appearances by Cosmo the Merry Martian, Suzie, Sam Hill, Super Duck, Li'l Jinx, Squoimy the Woim, Cubby the Bear, Ginger and many more classic characters from the past 70 years of Archie Comics who leave their four-color worlds behind and wreak havoc on Riverdale! Included for the first time in print: a Who’s Who of classic characters containing storylines, bios and histories that aren’t available anywhere else!
Author : Shirrel Rhoades
Publisher : Peter Lang
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 43,51 MB
Release : 2008
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781433101076
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 : Jeffery Klaehn
Publisher : Black Rose Books Ltd.
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 29,6 MB
Release : 2007
Category : Cartoonists
ISBN : 9781551642963
From gutter business to art form, an engaging, provocative look at all things comic book.
Author : Shawna Kidman
Publisher : University of California Press
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 12,96 MB
Release : 2019-04-30
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 0520297555
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.