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The Comics Journal #291
by Gary Groth  Publisher Comments The historic magazine about comics, available to the book trade for the first time! The Comics Journal is the award-winning print magazine and website exploring the widest range of cartooning—newspaper strips, alternative and mainstream graphic...
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The Near Complete Essential Hembeck Archives Omnibus
by Fred Hembeck Publisher Comments The Near Complete Essential Hembeck Archives Omnibus is a massive collection covering cartoonist Fred Hembeck's past three decades of work. All seven of his early eighties collections - Bah, Hembeck, The Hembeck Files, et al - are included, as well as...
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Faster Than a Speeding Bullet: The Rise of the Graphic Novel
by Stephen Weiner Publisher Comments An historical tour of the graphic novel format with a bit of background on comics as a whole....
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Modern Masters Volume 9: Mike Wieringo
by Eric Nolen-weathington Publisher Comments The latest volume of the Modern Masters series looks at the life and work of one of today's top comic-book artists, Mike Wieringo. Wieringo hit the comic book industry running, armed with a fresh, unique style all his own. Merging elements of manga with...
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History and Politics in French-Language Comics and Graphic Novels
by Mark Mckinney Publisher Comments In Belgium, France, Switzerland, and other French-speaking countries, many well-known comics artists have focused their attention on historical and political events. In works ranging from comic books and graphic novels to newspaper strips, cartoonists...
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The Batcave Companion
by Michael Eury Publisher Comments The writer/editor of the critically acclaimed The Krypton Companion and the designer of the eye-popping Spies, Vixens, and Masters of Kung Fu: The Art of Paul Gulacy team up to investigate the Silver and Bronze Ages of Batman comic books in The Batcave...
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500 Comicbook Villains
by Mike Conroy Publisher Comments An authoritative and entertaining guide to comicdom's rogues' gallery....
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The Will Eisner Companion
by Christopher Couch Publisher Comments Will Eisner's career spans the entire history of comic books-from his formative days in the 1930s through the 1940s, when he revlutionized narrative sequential art with his internationally famed series The Spirit, to the 1970s, when he created the...
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Fredric Wertham and the Critique of Mass Culture
by Bart Beaty Publisher Comments A re-examination of the critic whose congressional testimony sparked the comics...
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Harvey Pekar: Conversations (Conversations with Comic Artists)
by Harvey Pekar Synopsis Nearly twenty-five years of interviews with the comic artist best known for his American Splendor comic book...
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Christopher Columbus Graphic Nonfiction
by David West Publisher Comments Dramatic dialogue and vivid illustrations relate the epic story of this intrepid explorer and master navigator....
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Buddy Does Seattle
by Peter Bagge Publisher Comments The Harvey Award-winning cartoonist Peter Bagge remains one of the comics' industry's great crossover successes of the past decade, having sold more comics than any underground cartoonist through the 1990s to the present. After editing R. Crumb's Weirdo...
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The Sandman Companion
by Hy Bender Publisher Comments "...The popular in-depth guide to the acclaimed Neil Gaiman-scripted THE SANDMAN, including interviews with Gaiman and many of the artists involved with the series."...
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Stan Lee: Conversations (Conversations with Comic Artists)
by Jeff (edt) Mclaughlin Publisher Comments A collection of interviews ranging from 1968-2005 which show how Stan Lee's role as a spokesperson and impresario for Marvel Comics paved the way for the superhero genre to be taken seriously by the critical establishment and for the penetration of...
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Father of the Comic Strip: Rodolphe Topffer (Great Comics Artists)
by David Kunzle Publisher Comments A critical study of the Swiss artist who created the comic...
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Garry Trudeau: Doonesbury and the Aesthetics of Satire (Great Comics Artists)
by Kerry D. Soper Synopsis How a revolutionary cartoonist opened the funnies to political commentary and biting...
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Graphic Novels: Everything You Need to Know
by Paul Gravett Publisher Comments Graphic novels, long stories told in comics format, have enjoyed the fastest-growing sales of any category of book in the U.S. over the last four years. This modern renaissance of comics has produced a library of substantial works, whose subjects are not...
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Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe A to Z #03: Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe A to Z: Volume 3
by Various Synopsis Continuing the most exciting and comprehensive Marvel handbook ever assembled! This twelve-volume guide to the Marvel Universe features more than 100 huge entries in each tome! This issue - from Crossbones to the Enchantress! Spotlighting people (Crystal,...
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Eisner/Miller
by Will Eisner Publisher Comments Culture-curious readers and life-long fans of comics are invited to read along as two of the medium's greatest contributors - legendary innovator and godfather of sequential art Will Eisner, and the modern master of cinematic comics storytelling, Frank...
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Marvel Atlas
by Michael Hoskin Synopsis Revealed at last - the complete map to Marvel's Earth A massive guide to the diverse corners of places real and imagined: Dr. Doom's kingdom of Latveria Silver Sable's nation Symkaria The Scarlet Witch's native Transia The Black Panther's royal Wakanda...
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