Standard Catalog of Comic Books

Standard Catalog of Comic Books
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.

The Blank Comic Book Panelbook - Staggered, 7x10, 127 Pages

The Blank Comic Book Panelbook - Staggered, 7x10, 127 Pages
Author: About Comics
Publisher:
Total Pages: 128
Release: 2013-12
Genre: Art
ISBN: 9781936404391

For drawing your own comics, here's a book with 127 pages, each with the borders for 6 comics panels already printed in. This "staggered" edition alternates between tiers with a larger panel followed by a smaller one, and tiers with a smaller panel followed by a larger; if you want six equal panels, look for The Blank Comic Book Panelbook - Basic. (Please note: This is intended as a idea and design sketchbook, not for final work. The paper is neither archival nor acid-free.)

American TV Comic Books (1940s-1980s)

American TV Comic Books (1940s-1980s)
Author: Peter Bosch
Publisher: Two Morrows Publishing
Total Pages: 192
Release: 2022-04-05
Genre: Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN: 9781605491073

AMERICAN TV COMIC BOOKS (1940s-1980s) takes you from the small screen to the printed page, offering a fascinating and detailed year-by-year history of over 300 television shows and their 2000+ comic book adaptations across five decades. Author PETER BOSCH has spent years researching and documenting this amazing area of comics history, tracking down the well-known series (Star Trek, The Munsters) and the lesser-known shows (Captain Gallant, Pinky Lee) to present the finest look ever taken at this unique genre of comic books. Included are hundreds of full-color covers and images, plus profiles of the artists who drew TV comics: GENE COLAN, ALEX TOTH, DAN SPIEGLE, RUSS MANNING, JOHN BUSCEMA, RUSS HEATH, and many more giants of the comic book world. Whether you loved watching The Lone Ranger, Rawhide, and Zorro from the 1950s--The Andy Griffith Show, The Monkees, and The Mod Squad in the 1960s--Adam-12, Battlestar Galactica, and The Bionic Woman in the 1970s--or Alf, Fraggle Rock, and "V" in the 1980s--there's something here for fans of TV and comics alike.

Tunnels

Tunnels
Author: Rutu Modan
Publisher: Drawn & Quarterly
Total Pages: 287
Release: 2021-11-02
Genre: Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN: 177046560X

When a great antiquities collector is forced to donate his entire collection to the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, Nili Broshi sees her last chance to finish an archaeological expedition begun decades earlier—a dig that could possibly yield the most important religious artifact in the Middle East. Motivated by the desire to reinstate her father’s legacy as a great archaeologist after he was marginalized by his rival, Nili enlists a ragtag crew—a religious nationalist and his band of hilltop youths, her traitorous brother, and her childhood Palestinian friend, now an archaeological smuggler. As Nili’s father slips deeper into dementia, warring factions close in on and fight over the Ark of the Covenant! Backed by extensive research into this real-world treasure hunt, Rutu Modan sets her affecting novel at the center of a political crisis. She posits that the history of biblical Israel lies in one of the most disputed regions in the world, occupied by Israel and contested by Palestine. Often in direct competition, Palestinians and Israelis dig alongside one another, hoping to find the sacred artifact believed to be a conduit to God. Two-time Eisner Award winner Rutu Modan’s third graphic novel, Tunnels, is her deepest and wildest yet. Potent and funny, Modan reveals the Middle East as no westerner could. Ishai Mishory is a longtime New York City—and newly Bay Area—based translator and sometimes illustrator. He is currently conducting research for a PhD dissertation on 16th century Italian printing.

Nelson Mandela

Nelson Mandela
Author: The Nelson Mandela Foundation
Publisher: WW Norton
Total Pages: 210
Release: 2009-06-23
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 9780393070828

The fantastic, heroic life of Nelson Mandela, brought to life in this landmark graphic work. Nelson Mandela’s memoir, Long Road to Freedom, electrified the world in 1994 with the story of a solitary man who, despite unbelievable hardships, brought down one of the most-despised regimes in the world. Fifteen years after the publication of that classic work comes this fully authorized graphic biography, which relays in picture form the life story of the world’s greatest moral and political hero—from his boyhood in a small South African village to his growing political activism with the ANC, his twenty-seven-year incarceration as prisoner 46664 on Robben Island, his dramatic release, and his triumphant years as president of South Africa. With new interviews, firsthand accounts, and archival material that has only recently been uncovered, this visually dramatic biography promises to introduce Mandela’s gripping story to a whole new generation of readers.

Supermen!

Supermen!
Author: Greg Sadowski
Publisher: Fantagraphics Books
Total Pages: 193
Release: 2009-04-20
Genre: Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN: 1560979712

The enduring cultural phenomenon of comic book heroes was invented in the late 1930s by a talented and hungry group of artists and writers barely out of their teens, flying by the seat of their pants to create something new, exciting, and above all profitable. The iconography and mythology they created flourishes to this day in comic books, video, movies, fine art, advertising, and practically all other media. Supermen! collects the best and the brightest of this first generation, including Jack Cole, Will Eisner, Bill Everett, Lou Fine, Fletcher Hanks, Jack Kirby, Jerry Siegel, Joe Shuster, and Basil Wolverton.

Comic Books and Comic Strips in the United States through 2005

Comic Books and Comic Strips in the United States through 2005
Author: John Lent
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Total Pages: 357
Release: 2006-04-30
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0313083916

This final work in John Lent's series of bibliographies on comic art gathers together an astounding array of citations on American comic books and comic strips. Included in this volume are citations regarding anthologies and reprints; criticism and reviews; exhibitions, festivals, and awards; scholarship and theory; and the business, artistic, cultural, legal, technical, and technological aspects of American comics. Author John Lent has used all manner of methods to gather the citations, searching library and online databases, contacting scholars and other professionals, attending conferences and festivals, and scanning hundreds of periodicals. He has gone to great length to categorize the citations in an easy-to-use, scholarly fashion, and in the process, has helped to establish the field of comic art as an important part of social science and humanities research. The ten volumes in this series, covering all regions of the world, constitute the largest printed bibliography of comic art in the world, and serve as the beacon guiding the burgeoning fields of animation, comics, and cartooning. They are the definitive works on comic art research, and are exhaustive in their inclusiveness, covering all types of publications (academic, trade, popular, fan, etc.) from all over the world. Also included in these books are citations to systematically-researched academic exercises, as well as more ephemeral sources such as fanzines, press articles, and fugitive materials (conference papers, unpublished documents, etc.), attesting to Lent's belief that all pieces of information are vital in a new field of study such as comic art.

Comic Books as History

Comic Books as History
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

Comic Book Price Guide

Comic Book Price Guide
Author: Brent Frankenhoff
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 3672
Release: 2010-06-16
Genre: Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN: 1440215154

Essential Comics Values! From the authoritative stuff at Comics Buyer's Guide, the world's longest running magazine about comics, Comic Book Price Guide is the only guide on the market to give you extensive coverage of more than 150,000 comics from the Golden Age of the 1930s to current releases. In addition to the thousands of comic books from such publishers as Marvel, DC, Dark Horse, and Image, this collector-friendly reference includes listings for comic books from independent publishers, underground publishers, and more! This indispensable guide features: • Alphabetical organization by comic book title • Thousands of detailed photos • An exclusive photo grading guide to help you determine your comics' conditions accurately • Current values for more than 150,000 comics Comic Book Price Guide is the reliable reference for collectors, dealers, and anyone passionate about comic books!