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Author | : Shawna Kidman |
Publisher | : University of California Press |
Total Pages | : 328 |
Release | : 2019-04-30 |
Genre | : 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.
Author | : Shawna Kidman |
Publisher | : University of California Press |
Total Pages | : 328 |
Release | : 2019-04-30 |
Genre | : Performing Arts |
ISBN | : 0520297563 |
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 | : Ron Goulart |
Publisher | : Collectors Press, Inc. |
Total Pages | : 216 |
Release | : 2000 |
Genre | : Comic book covers |
ISBN | : 1888054387 |
A history of American comic books told almost entirely through reprinted comic book covers.
Author | : John Miller |
Publisher | : Krause Publications |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2005-09-20 |
Genre | : Antiques & Collectibles |
ISBN | : 9780873499934 |
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 | : Shirrel Rhoades |
Publisher | : Peter Lang |
Total Pages | : 370 |
Release | : 2008 |
Genre | : 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 | : Joseph Witek |
Publisher | : Univ. Press of Mississippi |
Total Pages | : 188 |
Release | : 1989 |
Genre | : Antiques & Collectibles |
ISBN | : 9780878054060 |
This first full-length scholarly study of comic books as a narrative form attempts to explain why comic books, traditionally considered to be juvenile trash literature, have in the 1980s been used by serious artists to tell realistic stories for adults
Author | : Publications International, Ltd |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 144 |
Release | : 2016 |
Genre | : Reference |
ISBN | : 9781680225082 |
This book captures the fun and excitement that have made comic books popular since the early 1930s. Fabulous covers, complete interior pages and dramatic panel enlargements help to tell the story of this vibrant, exciting publishing phenomenon from superheroes to femme fatales to satire comics. Illuminating essays add insight into notable creative figures, characters and unusual comics.
Author | : Matthew Rosenberg |
Publisher | : Black Mask Studios |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2017-11-21 |
Genre | : Comics & Graphic Novels |
ISBN | : 9781628751888 |
4 KIDS WALK INTO A BANK is the darkly comedic story of four burgeoning child criminals and their elaborate plans. When a group of bumbling criminals show up in her father's life looking to pull one last job, young Paige has two choices - let her father get caught up in their criminal hijinks or enlist her three best friends to do the job first. Paige picks the bad one. 200ish pages of full color comic-booking about friendship, family, growing up, and grand larceny from rising star writer Matthew Rosenberg (WE CAN NEVER GO HOME, KINGPIN, SECRET WARRIORS) and equally rising star artist Tyler Boss (LAZARUS, CALEXIT, Vice Magazine). This vollume collects the complete series that Kieron Gilled (THE WICKED + THE DIVINE, DARTH VADER) described as "Imagine Tarantino does Goonies. And excellent." and Brian K. Vaughan (SAGA, Y THE LAST MAN) said was "Exploding with ambition and love of the medium!" Collects issues 1-5.
Author | : Ron Goulart |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 352 |
Release | : 2001 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9780785355908 |
Author | : Jeremy Dauber |
Publisher | : W. W. Norton & Company |
Total Pages | : 593 |
Release | : 2021-11-16 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0393635619 |
The sweeping story of cartoons, comic strips, and graphic novels and their hold on the American imagination. Comics have conquered America. From our multiplexes, where Marvel and DC movies reign supreme, to our television screens, where comics-based shows like The Walking Dead have become among the most popular in cable history, to convention halls, best-seller lists, Pulitzer Prize–winning titles, and MacArthur Fellowship recipients, comics shape American culture, in ways high and low, superficial, and deeply profound. In American Comics, Columbia professor Jeremy Dauber takes readers through their incredible but little-known history, starting with the Civil War and cartoonist Thomas Nast, creator of the lasting and iconic images of Uncle Sam and Santa Claus; the golden age of newspaper comic strips and the first great superhero boom; the moral panic of the Eisenhower era, the Marvel Comics revolution, and the underground comix movement of the 1960s and ’70s; and finally into the twenty-first century, taking in the grim and gritty Dark Knights and Watchmen alongside the brilliant rise of the graphic novel by acclaimed practitioners like Art Spiegelman and Alison Bechdel. Dauber’s story shows not only how comics have changed over the decades but how American politics and culture have changed them. Throughout, he describes the origins of beloved comics, champions neglected masterpieces, and argues that we can understand how America sees itself through whose stories comics tell. Striking and revelatory, American Comics is a rich chronicle of the last 150 years of American history through the lens of its comic strips, political cartoons, superheroes, graphic novels, and more. FEATURING… • American Splendor • Archie • The Avengers • Kyle Baker • Batman • C. C. Beck • Black Panther • Captain America • Roz Chast • Walt Disney • Will Eisner • Neil Gaiman • Bill Gaines • Bill Griffith • Harley Quinn • Jack Kirby • Denis Kitchen • Krazy Kat • Harvey Kurtzman • Stan Lee • Little Orphan Annie • Maus • Frank Miller • Alan Moore • Mutt and Jeff • Gary Panter • Peanuts • Dav Pilkey • Gail Simone • Spider-Man • Superman • Dick Tracy • Wonder Wart-Hog • Wonder Woman • The Yellow Kid • Zap Comix … AND MANY MORE OF YOUR FAVORITES!