This special collector’s edition features books 25 to 27 in one fabulous volume, in paperback for the first time. In ASTERIX AND THE GREAT DIVIDE, can Asterix, Obelix and Getafix ensure a happy ending for star-crossed lovers Melodrama and Histrionix, whose fathers are rival chieftains? Watch out for some interesting new magic potions… Asterix and Obelix must go …
Superheroes!: Capes, Cowls, and the Creation of Comic Book Culture
Superman, Batman, Spider-Man, Iron Man, Wonder Woman, the Avengers, the X-Men, Watchmen, and more: the companion volume to the PBS documentary series of the same name that tells the story of the superhero in American popular culture. Together again for the first time, here come the greatest comic book superheroes ever assembled between two covers: down from …
Transformers Vault: Showcasing Rare Collectibles and Memorabilia
For the first time ever, Transformers Vault reveals the complete story of the Transformers, everyone’s favorite robots in disguise. Loaded with never-before-seen images, this book is a guide to the epic battle between the Autobots and Decepticons, as it began with toys and television, and continued to comics, film, games, and other media. There’s something here for all …
The Ten-Cent Plague: The Great Comic-Book Scare and How It Changed America
In the years between the end of World War II and the mid-1950s, the popular culture of today was invented in the pulpy, boldly illustrated pages of comic books. But no sooner had comics emerged than they were beaten down by mass bonfires, congressional hearings, and a McCarthyish panic over their unmonitored and uncensored content. Esteemed critic David …
Little Nemo in Slumberland Vol 2: Many More Splendid Sundays!
In 2005, the publication of Little Nemo in Slumberland: So Many Splendid Sundays, the oversized deluxe reprint edition, marked the centennial of Winsor McCay’s supreme graphic achievement. That book astounded the world of comics and art, becoming the most highly praised book of its kind. This new collection presents more of those famed Sunday newspaper pages — a …
Comics, Comix & Graphic Novels is the first ever fully documented study to explore the graphic qualities of the comic book, and the development of the genre into a sophisticated and culturally revealing popular art form. This book traces the history of the comic from early cartoon-like woodcuts through to the graphic strips of the nineteenth and twentieth …
Dick Grayson, Boy Wonder: Scholars and Creators on 75 Years of Robin, Nightwing and Batman
Dick Grayson–alter-ego of the original Robin of Batman comics–has gone through various changes in his 75 years as a superhero but has remained the optimistic, humorous character readers first embraced in 1940. Predating Green Lantern and Wonder Woman, he is one of DC Comics’ oldest heroes and retains a large and loyal fanbase. The first scholarly work …
Hand of Fire: The Comics Art of Jack Kirby (Great Comics Artists Series)
Jack Kirby (1917-1994) is one of the most influential and popular artists in comics history. With Stan Lee, he created the Fantastic Four and defined the drawing and narrative style of Marvel Comics from the 1960s to the present day. Kirby is credited with creating or cocreating a number of Marvel’s mainstay properties, among them the X-Men, the …
“If you care about graphic novels, you need this book.” – New York Times best-selling author Neil Gaiman Graphic Witness features rare wordless novels by four great 20th-century woodcut artists European and North American. The stories they tell reflect the political and social issues of their times as well as the broader …
Between the classic films of Walt Disney in the 1940s and the televised cartoon revolution of the 1960s was a critical period in the history of animation. Amid Amidi, of the influential Animation Blast magazine and CartoonBrew blog, charts the evolution of the modern style in animation, which largely discarded the “lifelike” aesthetic for a more graphic and …