David Mazzucchelli's Daredevil

Author: Frank Miller
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781613772386
Category : Artist's edition (San Diego, Calif.)
Languages : en
Pages : 200

Book Description
"Each page has been personally scanned by David Mazzucchelli from his own original art at the same size he drew it, and in color (to insure the best possible reproduction). While appearing to be in black and white, each page was scanned in color to mimic as closely as possible the experience of viewing the actual original art - for instance, corrections, blue pencils, paste-overs, all the little nuances that make original art unique. Each page is printed the same size as drawn, and the paper selected is as close as possible to the original art board."--Publisher description.

Words for Pictures

Author: Brian Michael Bendis
Publisher: Watson-Guptill
ISBN: 0770434363
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 226

Book Description
Best-selling Marvel Comics writer Brian Michael Bendis reveals the comic book writing secrets behind his work on The Avengers, Ultimate Spider-Man, All-New X-Men, and more. Arguably the most popular writer in modern comics, Brian Michael Bendis shares the tools and techniques he uses to create some of the most popular comic book and graphic novel stories of all time. Words for Pictures provides a fantastic opportunity for readers to learn from a creator at the very top of his field. Bendis's step-by-step lessons teach comics writing hopefuls everything they'll need to take their ideas from script to dynamic sequential art. The book's complete coverage exposes the most effective methods for crafting comic scripts, showcases insights from Bendis's fellow creators, reveals business secrets all would-be comics writers must know, and challenges readers with exercises to jumpstart their own graphic novel writing success.

Surveillance, Architecture and Control

Author: Susan Flynn
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 303000371X
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 342

Book Description
This edited collection examines the culture of surveillance as it is expressed in the built environment. Expanding on discussions from previous collections; Spaces of Surveillance: States and Selves (2017) and Surveillance, Race, Culture (2018), this book seeks to explore instances of surveillance within and around specific architectural entities, both historical and fictitious, buildings with specific social purposes and those existing in fiction, film, photography, performance and art. Providing new readings of, and expanding on Foucault’s work on the panopticon, these essays examine the role of surveillance via disparate fields of enquiry, such as the humanities, social sciences, technological studies, design and environmental disciplines. Surveillance, Architecture and Control seeks to engender new debates about the nature of the surveilled environment through detailed analyses of architectural structures and spaces; examining how cultural, geographical and built space buttress and produce power relations. The various essays address the ongoing fascination with contemporary notions of surveillance and control.

The Myth of the Superhero

Author: Marco Arnaudo
Publisher: JHU Press
ISBN: 1421409534
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 218

Book Description
Translated for the first time into English, The Myth of the Superhero looks beyond the cape, the mask, and the superpowers, presenting a serious study of the genre and its place in a broader cultural context.

Fairy Tale Comics

Author: Various Authors
Publisher: First Second
ISBN: 1466843861
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 132

Book Description
From favorites like "Puss in Boots" and "Goldilocks" to obscure gems like "The Boy Who Drew Cats," Fairy Tale Comics has something to offer every reader. Seventeen fairy tales are wonderfully adapted and illustrated in comics format by seventeen different cartoonists, including Raina Telgemeier, Brett Helquist, Cherise Harper, and more. Edited by Nursery Rhyme Comics' Chris Duffy, this jacketed hardcover is a beautiful gift and an instant classic.

World's Finest Comics (1941-) #302

Author: Cary Bates
Publisher: DC
ISBN:
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 26

Book Description
Ronald Jason, an actor who has only a few weeks of life left after an explosion of 'artificial radioactive element,' tries to pit Superman and Batman against one another!

Asterios Polyp

Author: David Mazzucchelli
Publisher: Pantheon
ISBN: 0307377326
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 346

Book Description
The triumphant return of one of comics’ greatest talents, with an engrossing story of one man’s search for love, meaning, sanity, and perfect architectural proportions. An epic story long awaited, and well worth the wait. Meet Asterios Polyp: middle-aged, meagerly successful architect and teacher, aesthete and womanizer, whose life is wholly upended when his New York City apartment goes up in flames. In a tenacious daze, he leaves the city and relocates to a small town in the American heartland. But what is this “escape” really about? As the story unfolds, moving between the present and the past, we begin to understand this confounding yet fascinating character, and how he’s gotten to where he is. And isn’t. And we meet Hana: a sweet, smart, first-generation Japanese American artist with whom he had made a blissful life. But now she’s gone. Did Asterios do something to drive her away? What has happened to her? Is she even alive? All the questions will be answered, eventually. In the meantime, we are enthralled by Mazzucchelli’s extraordinarily imagined world of brilliantly conceived eccentrics, sharply observed social mores, and deftly depicted asides on everything from design theory to the nature of human perception. Asterios Polyp is David Mazzucchelli’s masterpiece: a great American graphic novel.

Elmer

Author:
Publisher: SLG Publishing
ISBN: 9781593622046
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
Jake Gallo, an intelligent chicken, returns to the farm where his father, Elmer, one of the first sentient chickens, is dying, where he reads Elmer's diary and talks to the man who protected his parents before chickens were declared human.

The Phantom the Complete Dailies Volume 24: 1973-1974

Author: Lee Falk
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781613452622
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 272

Book Description
The critically acclaimed, best selling complete reprint of The Phantomcontinues! Referred to by comic strip historian Maurice Horn as the"granddaddy of all costumed superheroes," The Phantom was created in1936 by Lee Falk. The strip hit the funny pages of newspapers well before theDark Knight or Superman made their first appearances and has been acknowledgedas an influence on every "masked man of mystery" since. The Phantomset the standard for action, adventure, intrigue, and romance in adventure comicstrips and comic books - it has frequently been copied but neverequaled. This exciting 24th volume continues the SY BARRY YEARS!Reprinted in all its black and white glory, journey with Hermes Press as webring you six complete continuities drawn by Sy himself: "The Keeper of thePeace," and "The Giant of Kaluga," "The Trial of Patrolman Zokko," "The Things,""Vandal-Looters,"and "The Pampered Princess." Strips from this issue are takendirectly from King Feature's proofs. Included in the volume is acomprehensive essay and documentary materials.

Walter Simonson Battlestar Galactica Art Edition

Author: Walt Simonson
Publisher: Dynamite Entertainment
ISBN: 9781524100124
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
Walter Simonson's Battlestar Galactica Art Edition commemorates the master draftsman's senses-shattering work on the Battlestar Galactica comic book series published by Marvel Comics from 1979 to 1981. Truly, the adventures of brash pilots Apollo and Starbuck were never so epic as they were under Simonson's skillful hand, as demonstrated in this gorgeous hardcover collection. Scanned in high-resolution color and printed at original size, the Battlestar Galactica Art Edition preserves every detail of the artist's meticulous skill and hard work, interpreted from scripts by contributing writers Roger McKenzie, Steven Grant, Bill Mantlo, Bob Layton, and Simonson himself!