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 Price: $18.00 Paperback - 224 pages Reprint edition |
Understanding
Comics: The Invisible Art
by Scott McCloud A comic book about comic books. McCloud, in an incredibly accessible style, explains the details of how comics work: how they're composed, read and understood. More than just a book about comics, this gets to the heart of how we deal with visual languages in general. "The potential of comics is limitless and exciting!" writes McCloud. This should be required reading for every school teacher. Pulitzer Prize-winner Art Spiegelman says, "The most intelligent comics I've seen in a long time." |
 Price: $18.36 Paperback - 256 pages |
Reinventing
Comics
by Scott McCloud Scott McCloud's Reinventing Comics, the sequel to his groundbreaking work Understanding Comics, is a study of two revolutions: a failed one and a potential one. His 1993 book was not only a chronicle of the potential breakthrough of comics (which he redefined as "sequential art") into a legitimate art form but a sterling example itself of the medium's astonishing untapped potential. Now, seven years later, he chronicles the failure of the comic book industry to fulfill that promise, but also explores how the movement can be restarted, particularly by utilizing the resources of another spectacularly successful revolution, the Internet. In the first half of Reinventing Comics, an elegantly clean example of comic art in McCloud's trademark bold black-and-white style, the author outlines how hype, speculation, and artistic burnout led to the genre's decline. He then lays out 12 paths toward a new revolution of comics, including creators' rights, industry innovation, public perception, gender balance, and diversity of genre, which are then explored with such innovative intelligence that, as with his earlier work, the conclusions he comes to are fascinating for both artists and nonartists alike. |
 Price: $13.50Paperback Reprint edition |
How
to Draw Comics the Marvel Way
by Stan Lee, John Buscema Stan Lee, the Mighty Man from Marvel, and John Buscema, active and adventuresome artist behind the Silver Surfer, Conan the Barbarian, the Mighty Thor and Spider-Man, have collaborated on this comics compendium: an encyclopedia of information for creating your own superhero comic strips. Using artwork from Marvel comics as primary examples, Buscema graphically illustrates the hitherto mysterious methods of comic art. Stan Lee's pithy prose gives able assistance and advice to the apprentice artist. Bursting with Buscema's magnificent illustrations and Lee's laudable word-magic, How to Draw Comics the Marvel Way belongs in the library of every kid who has ever wanted to illustrate his or her own comic strip. |
 Price: $17.60 Paperback - 957 pages 30th edition |
Overstreet Comic Book Price Guide
(Overstreet Comic Book Price Guide, Ed 30)
by Robert M. Overstreet The Overstreet Comic Book Price Guide is your roadmap to the many changes in the marketplace. Featuring the most up-to-date pricing, and the most comprehensive information on the world of comics, this book is essential for the casual fan and the die-hard collector. If you have a comic book collection or you're thinking about starting one, you need this book! |
 Price: $12.60 Paperback - 224 pages
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Man of Two Worlds: My Life in Science Fiction and Comics by Julius Schwartz, Brian M. Thomsen (Contributor) Before there was Superman or Batman, before Ray Bradbury or Harlan Ellison ever picked up a pen, before there were science-fiction fans and conventions, there was Julius Schwartz - a man who would have an indelible effect on all this and more. Besides working on both the Superman and Batman character he created much of the mythology we now take for granted. Schwartz was also responsible for revitalizing nearly every important DC Comics character, highlighted by the mighty Justice League of America, in what has since become known as comics' beloved "Silver Age." Over more than forty years, Schwartz captained such blazing talents of the comics industry as Bob Kane, Bill Finger, Curt Swan, Neal Adams, Denny O'Neil, Alan Moore, and many others. Here, in "Julie's" own words, is a behind-the-scenes look at a life spent having fun and making sure readers did, too - the incredible story of a true hero of American pop culture. |
