Besides Walt Disney, no one seemed more key to the development of animation at the Disney Studios than Ward Kimball (1914-2002), Kimball was Disney's friend and confidant. In this engaging, cradle-to-grave biography, award-winning author Todd James Pierce explores the life of Ward Kimball, a lead Disney animator who worked on characters such as Mickey Mouse, Donald Duck, Jiminy Cricket, the Cheshire Cat, and the Mad Hatter. Through unpublished excerpts from Kimball's personal writing, material from unpublished interviews, and new information based on interviews conducted by the author, Pierce defines the life of perhaps the most influential animator of the twentieth century. (immagine) Categoria: Books: novel/sci fi/horror
Ordinabile fino al 30/11/18
By Pierce, Todd James. Artist Kimball, Ward. Cover by N/A.
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Pagina del Previews (NOV/2018): 367
Data di uscita: 09/01/19
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Over the past forty years, American film has entered into a formal interaction with the comic book. Such comic book adaptations as Sin City, 300, and Scott Pilgrim vs. the World have adopted components of their source materials' visual style. The screen has been fractured into panels, the photographic has given way to the graphic, and the steady rhythm of cinematic time has evolved into a far more malleable element. In other words, films have begun to look like comics. (immagine) Categoria: Books: novel/sci fi/horror
Ordinabile fino al 30/11/18
By Morton, Drew. Artist N/A. Cover by N/A.
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How a creator transformed the hero and forever forged a brooding bond between philosophy and comics Steve Ditko (1927-2018) is one of the most important contributors to American comic books. As the cocreator of Spider-Man and sole creator of Doctor Strange, Ditko made an indelible mark on American popular culture. Mysterious Travelers: Steve Ditko and the Search for a New Liberal Identity resets the conversation about his heady and powerful work. Always inward facing, Ditko's narratives employed superhero and supernatural fantasy in the service of self-examination, and with characters like the Question, Mr. A, and Static, Ditko turned ordinary superhero comics into philosophic treatises. Many of Ditko's philosophy-driven comics show a clear debt to ideas found in Ayn Rand's Objectivism. Unfortunately, readers often reduce Ditko's work to a mouthpiece for Rand's vision. Mysterious Travelers unsettles this notion. In this book, Zack Kruse argues that Ditko's philosophy draws on a complicated network of ideas that is best understood as mystic liberalism. Although Ditko is not the originator of mystic liberalism, his comics provide a unique window into how such an ideology operates in popular media. Examining selections of Ditko's output from 1953 to 1986, Kruse demonstrates how Ditko's comics provide insight into a unique strand of American thought that has had a lasting impact. (immagine) Categoria: Books: novel/sci fi/horror
Ordinabile fino al 04/12/20
By Kruse, Zack. Artist Ditko, Steve.
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Pagina del Previews (NOV/2020): 313
Data di uscita: 17/02/21
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R. Crumb: Literature, Autobiography, and the Quest for Self contains six chapters that chart Crumb's intellectual trajectory and explore the recurring philosophical themes that permeate his depictions of literary and biographical works and the ways he responds to them through innovative, dazzling compositional techniques. Calonne explores the ways Crumb develops concepts of solitude, despair, desire, and conflict as aspects of the quest for self in his engagement with the book of Genesis and works by Franz Kafka, Jean-Paul Sartre, the Beats, Charles Bukowski, and Philip K. Dick, as well as Crumb's illustrations of biographies of musicians Jelly Roll Morton and Charley Patton. Calonne demonstrates how Crumb's love for literature led him to attempt an extremely faithful rendering of the texts he admired while at the same time highlighting for his readers the particular hidden philosophical meanings he found most significant in his own autobiographical quest for identity and his authentic self. (immagine) Categoria: Books: novel/sci fi/horror
Ordinabile fino al 04/12/20
By Calonne, David Stephen. Artist Crumb, R..
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Data di uscita: 17/02/21
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Howard Cruse tells the life story of one of the most important figures in LGBTQ+ comics. A preacher's kid from Alabama who became 'the godfather of queer comics,' Cruse (1944-2019) was a groundbreaking underground cartoonist, a wicked satirist, an LGBTQ+ activist, and a mentor to a vast network of queer comics artists. His comic strip Wendel, published in The Advocate throughout the 1980s, is considered a revolutionary moment in the development of LGBTQ+ comics, as is his inaugurating the editorship of Gay Comix with Kitchen Sink Press in 1979, which furthered the careers of important artists like Jennifer Camper and Alison Bechdel. Cruse's graphic novel Stuck Rubber Baby, published in 1995, fictionalizes his own coming out in the context of the civil rights movement in 1960s Birmingham and was a significant forerunner to contemporary graphic novels and memoirs. (immagine) Categoria: Books: novel/sci fi/horror
By Utell, Janine. Artist Cruse, Howard.
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Data di uscita: 15/02/23
Near the end of World War II and after, a small-town Nebraska youth, Jimmy Kugler, drew more than a hundred double-sided sheets of comic strip stories. Over half of these six-panel tales retold the Pacific War as fought by 'Frogs' and 'Toads,' humanoid creatures brutally committed to a kill-or-be-killed struggle. Michael Kugler reproduces the never-before-published comics of his father's adolescent imagination as a microhistory of American youth in that formative era. Also included in Into the Jungle! A Boy's Comic Strip History of World War II are the likely comic book models for these stories and inspiration from news coverage in newspapers, radio, movies, and newsreels. (immagine) Categoria: Books: novel/sci fi/horror
By Kugler, Jimmy.
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Data di uscita: 15/02/23
After nearly fifty years of disrupting media, gleefully Rabelaisian uberindie filmmaker Lloyd Kaufman (b. 1945) has been maligned, mocked, and-worst of all-ignored throughout the general course of his wildly eclectic and impactful filmography. As the equally huckster-ish and self-denigrating cofounder and president of Troma Entertainment, Kaufman has indisputably left his slimily viscous fingerprints on moviemaking throughout the past half century. Lloyd Kaufman: Interviews gathers together no-holds-barred commentaries, op-eds, Q&As, arguments, and retorts from the prodigious filmmaker. (immagine) Categoria: Books: novel/sci fi/horror
Ordinabile fino al 30/11/24
By Kaufman, Lloyd.
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Pagina del Previews (NOV/2024): 385
Data di uscita: 19/02/25
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by Harvey Pekar & Various Almost twenty-five years of interviews from a variety of sources including small fanzines, local public radio shows, and in the Washington Post are collected here in Harvey Pekar: Conversations. The volume reveals his thoughts and feelings about comics, autobiography, his appearances on David Letterman's show in the 1980s, his life with cancer, and how a successful 2003 movie adaptation of American Splendor has changed and not changed his life. His comics work has won the National Book Award, spawned theatrical productions, and served as the basis for the award-winning movie starring Paul Giamatti. (immagine) Categoria: Books: novel/sci fi/horror
By Various. Artist Various. Cover by Na.
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Pagina del Previews (OCT/2008): 370
Data di uscita: 31/12/08 (può ritardare di 60 giorni)
(W) Jean-Paul Gabilliet; Translated from the French by Bart Beaty & Nick Nguyen Originally published in France, Jean-Paul Gabilliet's Of Comics and Men: A Cultural History of American Comic Books documents the rise and development of the American comic book industry from the 1930s to the present. The book intertwines aesthetic issues and critical biographies with the concerns of production, distribution, and audience reception, making it one of the few interdisciplinary studies of the art form. (immagine) Categoria: Books: novel/sci fi/horror
By Gabilliet; Beaty; Nguyen. Artist Na. Cover by Na.
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Pagina del Previews (OCT/2009): 313
Data di uscita: 23/12/09 (può ritardare di 60 giorni)
(E) Simone Castaldi A record of the turbulent times in which the comics became the trusted platform to attack the status quo in Italy, this book explores an overlooked era of Italian history roiled by terrorism when artists in the Italian scene went beyond passively documenting history. They became trusted philosophers and reporters. (immagine) Categoria: Books: graphic novels
Ordinabile fino al 09/11/10
By Simone Castaldi. Artist N/A. Cover by N/A.
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One of the most eclectic and distinctive writers currently working in comics, Grant Morrison brings the auteurist sensibility of alternative comics and graphic novels to the popular genres that dominate the American and British comics industries. In Grant Morrison: Combining the Worlds of Contemporary Comics, author Marc Singer examines how Morrison uses this fusion of styles to intervene in the major political, aesthetic, and intellectual challenges of our time. (immagine) Categoria: Books: novel/sci fi/horror
Ordinabile fino al 04/11/11
By Singer, Marc. Artist N/A. Cover by N/A.
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Pagina del Previews (OCT/2011): 342
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One of the most eclectic and distinctive writers currently working in comics, Grant Morrison (b. 1960) brings the auteurist sensibility of alternative comics and graphic novels to the popular genres-superhero, science fiction, and fantasy-that dominate the American and British comics industries. His comics range from bestsellers featuring the most universally recognized superhero franchises (All-Star Superman, New X-Men, Batman) to more independent, creator-owned work (The Invisibles, The Filth, We3) that defies any generic classification. In Grant Morrison: Combining the Worlds of Contemporary Comics, author Marc Singer examines how Morrison uses this fusion of styles to intervene in the major political, aesthetic, and intellectual challenges of our time. His comics blur the boundaries between fantasy and realism, mixing autobiographical representation and cultural critique with heroic adventure. They offer self-reflexive appraisals of their own genres while they experiment with the formal elements of comics. Perhaps most ambitiously, they challenge contemporary theories of language and meaning, seeking to develop new modes of expression grounded in comics' capacity for visual narrative and the fantasy genres' ability to make figurative meanings literal. (immagine) Categoria: Books: novel/sci fi/horror
Ordinabile fino al 04/11/11
By Singer, Marc. Artist N/A. Cover by N/A.
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Pagina del Previews (OCT/2011): 342
Data di uscita: 07/12/11 (può ritardare di 60 giorni)
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Jack Kirby is one of the most influential and popular artists in comics history. With Stan Lee, he created the Fantastic Four and defined the drawing and narrative style of Marvel Comics from the 1960s to the present day. Kirby's distinctive narrative drawing, use of bold abstraction, and creation of angst-ridden and morally flawed heroes mark him as one of the most influential mainstream creators in comics. Charles Hatfield analyzes the development of Kirby's cartooning technique, his use of dynamic composition, the recurring themes and moral ambiguities in his work, his eventual split from Lee, and his later work as a solo artist. (immagine) Categoria: Books: novel/sci fi/horror
Ordinabile fino al 04/11/11
By Hatfield, C.. Artist Kirby, Jack. Cover by N/A.
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Data di uscita: 11/01/12 (può ritardare di 60 giorni)
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Jack Kirby (1917-1994) is one of the most influential and popular artists in comics history. With Stan Lee, he created the Fantastic Four and defined the drawing and narrative style of Marvel Comics from the 1960s to the present day. Kirby is credited with creating or cocreating a number of Marvel's mainstay properties, among them the X-Men, the Hulk, Thor, and the Silver Surfer. His earlier work with Joe Simon led to the creation of Captain America, the popular kid gang and romance comic genres, and one of the most successful comics studios of the 1940s and 1950s. Kirby's distinctive narrative drawing, use of bold abstraction, and creation of angst-ridden and morally flawed heroes mark him as one of the most influential mainstream creators in comics. In this book, Charles Hatfield examines the artistic legacy of one of America's true comic book giants. He analyzes the development of Kirby's cartooning technique, his use of dynamic composition, the recurring themes and moral ambiguities in his work, his eventual split from Lee, and his later work as a solo artist. Against the backdrop of Kirby's earlier work in various genres, Hand of Fire examines the peak of Kirby's career, when he introduced a new sense of scope and sublimity to comic book fantasy. (immagine) Categoria: Books: novel/sci fi/horror
Ordinabile fino al 04/11/11
By Hatfield, C.. Artist Kirby, Jack. Cover by N/A.
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Pagina del Previews (OCT/2011): 342
Data di uscita: 11/01/12 (può ritardare di 60 giorni)
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Comics scholars engage the roles of trust, truth, family memoirs and autobiography in works from such greats as Art Spiegelman, Marjane Satrapi, and Alison Bechdel; from cult-status figures such as Martin Vaughn James; and from lesser-known works by artists such as Frédéric Boilet. Contributing scholars include Jan Baetens, David M. Ball, Lopamudra Basu, Christopher Bush, Isaac Cates Michael A. Chaney, Alisia Chase, Sharon O'Brien, Davida Paens, Yaël Scjlick, Rachel Trousdale, and Benjamin Widiss. (immagine) Categoria: Books: novel/sci fi/horror
Ordinabile fino al 01/11/13
By Gabilliet; Beaty; Nguyen. Artist Na. Cover by Na.
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Pagina del Previews (OCT/2013): 374
Data di uscita: 04/12/13 (può ritardare di 30 giorni)
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Grand in its scope, Asian Comics dispels the myth that, outside of Japan, the continent is nearly devoid of comic strips and comic books. Relying on his fifty years of Asian mass communication and comic art research, John A. Lent shows that nearly every country had a golden age of cartooning and has experienced a recent rejuvenation of the art form. Lent covers the nations and regions of Bangladesh, Cambodia, China, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Korea, Malaysia, Myanmar, Nepal, the Philippines, Singapore, Sri Lanka, Taiwan, Thailand, and Vietnam. (immagine) Categoria: Books: novel/sci fi/horror
Ordinabile fino al 31/10/14
By Lent, John A. Artist N/A. Cover by N/A.
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Data di uscita: 07/01/15
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