Comic books in 'Comic History'

1st printing. Written by Patricia Lakin. Art and cover by Rob McClurkan. Now beginning readers can learn all about the history of comics, graphic novels, manga, and more in this installment of the nonfiction Level 3 Ready-to-Read series about the history of fun stuff! Do you know how comics, graphic novels, and manga came to be? Or that they have their roots in cave drawings? Did you know that Benjamin Franklin is credited as having the first cartoon in an American newspaper? Ever wonder who put the fun in the Funny Pages? Become a History of Fun Stuff Expert on the funny history of comic strips, graphic novels, manga, and more, and amaze your friends with all you've learned in this fun, fact-filled Level 3 Ready-to-Read! Softcover, 6-in. x 9-in., 48 pages, full color. Cover price $3.99.

1st printing. A catalog companion to the exhibition Comic Book Apocalypse at California State University, Northridge, Fall 2015. Featuring scholarly essays on the brilliance and diversity Jack Kirby brought to his work, as well as a rare opportunity to view an amazing selection of the Kirby art that was displayed at the exhibition. Essayists include Glen Alan Gold, Diana Schutz, Howard Chaykin, Carla Speed McNeil and others. Softcover, 8-in. x 12-in., 168 pages, PC/PB&W. Cover price $39.99.

1st printing.

Cover by Jack Kirby.

Comic Book Artist Bullpen collects all seven issues of the little-seen labor of love fanzine published in the early 2000s by Jon B. Cooke (editor of Comic Book Creator magazine).

Featured are in-depth interviews with some of comics' major league players, including George Tuska, Fred Hembeck, Terry Beatty, and Frank Bolle-and an amazing all-star tribute to Silver Age great Jack Abel by the Marvel Comics Bullpen and others. That previously unpublished all-comics Abel appreciation includes strips by Joe Kubert, Walter Simonson, Kyle Baker, Marie Severin, Gray Morrow, Alan Weiss, Sergio Aragonés, Mort Todd, Dick Ayers, and many more!

Plus a new bonus feature on Jack Kirby's unknown 1960s baseball card art, and a 16-page full-color section, all behind a Jack Kirby cover!

Softcover, 8 1/2-in. x 11-in., 176 pages, PC/PB&W.

Cover price $24.95.

"Joe Kubert: A Tribute to the Creator and Mentor!" For its second issue, Comic Book Creator pays tribute to the late, great Joe Kubert in a 160-page double-size book extravaganza! This Summer Special is entirely devoted to the legendary comics creator who passed away in 2012. Included are comprehensive examinations of each facet of Joe's career: Golden Age fan favorite artist, 3-D comics pioneer, pre-eminent war delineator, top artist-as-editor, incomparable Tarzan writer and artist, founder of the Kubert School, graphic novelist, P*S magazine helmsman, father to a comics creator dynasty, and inspiration to generations of aspiring artists. Softcover, 8-in. x 11-in., 160 pages, full color. Cover price $17.95.

1st printing. Cover by Alex Ross. George Khoury presents a "love letter" to his personal golden age of comics, 1976-1986, covering all the things that made those comics great -- the top artists, the coolest stories, and even the best ads! Remember the days when every comic book captured your imagination, and took you to new and exciting places? When you didn't apologize for loving the comic books and creators that gave you bliss? Comic Book Fever captures that era, when comics offered all different genres to any kid with a pocketful of coins, at local establishments from 7-Elevens to your local drug store. Inside this full-color softcover are new articles, interviews, and images about the people, places, characters, titles, moments, and good times that inspired and thrilled us in the Bronze Age: Neal Adams, John Romita, George Pérez, Marv Wolfman, Alan Moore, Denny ONeil, Jim Starlin, José Luis García-López, The Hernandez Brothers, The Buscema Brothers, Stan Lee, Jack Davis, Jack Kirby, Kevin Eastman, Chris Claremont, Gerry Conway, Frank Miller and others. It also covers the phenoms that delighted Baby Boomers, Generation X, and beyond: Uncanny X-Men, New Teen Titans, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Love and Rockets, Crisis on Infinite Earths, Superman vs. Spider-Man, Archie Comics, Harvey Comics, KISS, Star Wars, Rom, Hostess Cake ads, Slurpee cups, Grit(!), and other milestones. Softcover, 8-in. x 11-in., 240 pages, full color. Cover price $34.95.

1st printing. By Liam Burke. In the summer of 2000 X-Men surpassed all box office expectations and ushered in an era of unprecedented production of comic book film adaptations. This trend, now in its second decade, has blossomed into Hollywood's leading genre. From superheroes to Spartan warriors, The Comic Book Film Adaptation offers the first dedicated study to examine how comic books moved from the fringes of popular culture to the center of mainstream film production. It considers the cultural traumas, business demands, and digital possibilities that Hollywood faced at the dawn of the twenty-first century. Softcover, 6-in. x 9-in., 384 pages, B&W. Cover price $30.00.

1st Edition - 1st printing. "The First History of Modern Comic Books!" By Will Jacobs and Gerard Jones. This is the first history of modern comic books. From 1956 to the early 1980s, this volume covers it all. Softcover, 6-in. x 9-in., 292 pages, Text (with B&W Chapter Illustrations). Cover price $11.95.

1st Edition - 2nd and later printings. "The First History of Modern Comic Books!" By Will Jacobs and Gerard Jones. This is the first history of modern comic books. From 1956 to the early 1980s, this volume covers it all. Softcover, 6-in. x 9-in., 292 pages, Text (with B&W Chapter Illustrations). Cover price $11.95.

Revised Edition - 1st printing. "The First History of Modern Comic Books!" By Will Jacobs and Gerard Jones. This is the first history of modern comic books. From 1956 to the mid-1990s, this volume covers it all. Softcover, 416 pages, Text (with B&W Chapter Illustrations). Cover price $19.95.

Add to cart Near Mint $6.00

Add to cart Near Mint $6.00

1st printing. Collects Comic Book History of Animation (2020 IDW) #1-6.

Written by Fred Van Lente. Art and cover by Ryan Dunlavey.

From the team behind The Comic Book History of Comics comes the perfect companion piece telling the story of the triumphs and tragedies of the filmmakers and beloved animated characters of the past century and a half - essential for hardcore fans of the medium and noobies alike! It's all here, from Aardman to Zoetrope, Disney to Miyazaki, Hanna-Barbera to Pixar, and everything in-between!

Begin in the early 1900s with J. Stuart Blackton and the first American cartoon, Winsor McCay's Gertie the Dinosaur, and Felix the Cat! Find out about Margaret Winkler, the most powerful person in early animation, and Walt Disney, who revolutionizes cartoons with sound and color! Discover how Fleischer Studios teaches us to sing "Boop-boop-a-doop" and eat our spinach, and how Warner Bros' Looney Toons rivaled Disney's Silly Symphonies! Plus, icons of animation including Hanna-Barbera, Huckleberry Hound, The Flintstones, and Ruby-Spears; the Plastic Age of toy-based TV shows including G.I. Joe, Transformers, and He-Man; and the new Golden Age of TV animation launched by The Simpsons!

And go abroad to France with Emile Cohl's dynamic doodles in Fantasmagorie; to Japan, where Momotaro debuts the first full-length anime, Divine Sea Warriors, and Osauma Tezuka conquers TV as he conquered manga; and to Argentina, which beat out Snow White for the first feature length animated movie by two decades! And finally, Jurassic Park and the computer animation revolution! Post-Little Mermaid Disney, Pixar, and Studio Ghibli conquer the world!

If you've ever wanted to know more about the history of animation but were afraid to ask, this book is especially for you!

Softcover, 120 pages, full color.

Cover price $17.99.

1st printing. Collects Comic Book History of Comics: Comics For All (2017 IDW) #1-4.

Written by Fred Van Lente. Art and cover by Ryan Dunlavey.

At last! The amazing, inspiring story of the comics medium in comics form goes global! In this volume, Fred and Ryan tackle the origins of Japanese manga, French graphic albums, the British Invasion of the American scene, the battle for creators' rights in the US, and how comics have invaded cyberspace and Hollywood! Plus: the Her-Story of Comics continues, and we spotlight other countries' funnybooks across five continents! The Comic Book History of Comics goes wherever comics go-which is everywhere!

Softcover, 104 pages, full color. Cover price $15.99.

1st printing. Collects Comic Book Comics (2008) #1-6. Written by Fred Van Lente. Art by Ryan Dunlavey. For the first time ever, the inspiring, infuriating, and utterly insane story of comics, graphic novels, and manga is presented in comic book form! The award-winning Action Philosophers team of Fred Van Lente and Ryan Dunlavey turn their irreverent-but-accurate eye to the stories of Jack Kirby, R. Crumb, Harvey Kurtzman, Alan Moore, Stan Lee, Will Eisner, Fredric Wertham, Roy Lichtenstein, Art Spiegelman, Hergé, Osamu Tezuka -- and more! Softcover, 224 pages, B&W. Cover price $21.99.

1st printing.

By Keith Dallas and John Wells.

In 1978, DC Comics implemented a bold initiative to combat plummeting sales: Give readers more story pages with a higher cover price, to better compete on newsstands. This "DC Explosion" brought with it many creative new titles, but just weeks after its launch, they pulled the plug, cancelling numerous titles and leaving stacks of completed comic book stories unpublished. It quickly became known as "The DC Implosion", and TwoMorrows Publishing delves into one of the most notorious events in comics with an exhaustive oral history from the creators involved (Jenette Kahn, Paul Levitz, Len Wein, Mike Gold, and others), plus detailed analysis of how it changed the landscape of comics forever!

Softcover, 8-in. x 11-in., 136 pages. PC. Cover price $21.95.

Expanded Edition

1st printing. By Keith Dallas and John Wells. In 1978, DC Comics launched a bold initiative to win over fans and retailers with an expanded line-up billed as "The DC Explosion." But mere weeks after its launch, DC's parent company pulled the plug, cancelling a slew of titles, and leaving stacks of completed comic book stories unpublished. Now, over 45 years after that "DC Implosion," TwoMorrows Publishing recalls one of the most notorious events in comics. This new Expanded Edition of the sold-out Eisner Award-nominated book explodes in full cover for the first time, with additional coverage of lost 1970s DC projects like Ninja the Invisible and an adaptation of "The Wiz," Jim Starlin's unaltered cover art for Batman Family #21, content meant for cancelled Marvel titles such as Godzilla and Ms. Marvel, and more! Softcover, 8-in. x 11-in., 144 pages. PC. Cover price $26.95.

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Vanguard Revised Edition - 1st printing. By Joe Simon and Jim Simon. The Comic Book Makers tells the real stories of the Golden Age era, written by a leading participant of the age! Joe Simon tells the compelling, definitive history of the creators. Meet the crime comics editor who would himself be accused of a gruesome murder, the horror artist who was periodically released from a mental hospital in order to meet his publishing deadlines, the famous Senator Estes Kefauver, whose subcommittee investigated comic books as a cause of juvenile delinquency, and dozens of other fascinating personalities! Hardcover, 8 1/2-in. x 11-in., 192 pages, PC/PB&W. Cover price $34.95.

Vanguard Revised Edition - Limited Signed Edition - 1st printing. By Joe Simon and Jim Simon. The Comic Book Makers tells the real stories of the Golden Age era, written by a leading participant of the age! Joe Simon tells the compelling, definitive history of the creators. Meet the crime comics editor who would himself be accused of a gruesome murder, the horror artist who was periodically released from a mental hospital in order to meet his publishing deadlines, the famous Senator Estes Kefauver, whose subcommittee investigated comic books as a cause of juvenile delinquency, and dozens of other fascinating personalities! Hardcover (with Slipcase), 8 1/2-in. x 11-in., 192 pages, PC/PB&W. NOTE: Limited to 600 copies. Cover price $49.95.

Vanguard Revised Edition - 1st printing. By Joe Simon and Jim Simon. The Comic Book Makers tells the real stories of the Golden Age era, written by a leading participant of the age! Joe Simon tells the compelling, definitive history of the creators. Meet the crime comics editor who would himself be accused of a gruesome murder, the horror artist who was periodically released from a mental hospital in order to meet his publishing deadlines, the famous Senator Estes Kefauver, whose subcommittee investigated comic books as a cause of juvenile delinquency, and dozens of other fascinating personalities! Softcover, 8 1/2-in. x 11-in., 192 pages, PC/PB&W Cover price $19.95.

1st printing. By Bradford W. Wright. An engaging, illuminating, and provocative history of comic books as both a medium of artistic expression and an industry, Comic Book Nation traces the ways in which comic books have reflected national events and attitudes. This paperback edition features a new postscript scribed by author Wright detailing industry developments in the 1990s as well as a new chapter - "Spider-Man at Ground Zero" - exploring the response of comic book artists to the 9/11 tragedy. Softcover, 352 pages, Text (with B&W Chapter Illustrations and photos). Cover price $19.95.

2nd and later printings. By Bradford W. Wright. An engaging, illuminating, and provocative history of comic books as both a medium of artistic expression and an industry, Comic Book Nation traces the ways in which comic books have reflected national events and attitudes. This paperback edition features a new postscript scribed by author Wright detailing industry developments in the 1990s as well as a new chapter - "Spider-Man at Ground Zero" - exploring the response of comic book artists to the 9/11 tragedy. Softcover, 352 pages, Text (with B&W Chapter Illustrations and photos). Cover price $19.95.

1st printing. BY Jackie Estrada. This high-quality hardcover coffee table book offers a unique peek at the comics industry in the 1990s. It features some 600 candid photos of comics creators taken by Jackie Estrada at the San Diego Comic-Con, WonderCon, Chicago ComiCon, APE, SPX, and other shows during the decade, along with commentary and anecdotes about each person. The photos depict not only the big names of the period but also up-and-coming stars early in their careers as well as Golden and Silver Age comic book greats who were still with us. Hardcover, 9-in. x 12-in., 160 pages, PC/PB&W. Cover price $34.95.

1st printing.

By Jackie Estrada.

This high-quality hardcover coffeetable book offers a unique peek at the early days of comics conventions before they were big pop culture events, when the giants of the industry mingled casually with their peers and fans. It features some 600 candid photos of Golden and Silver Age comic book greats, publishers, editors, cartoonists, and more, each taken by Jackie Estrada at Comic-Cons in the 1970s and 1980s, along with commentary and anecdotes about each person.

Hardcover, 9-in. x 12-in., 160 pages, PC/PB&W. Cover price $34.95.

1st printing. By Stanley Wiater and Stephen R. Bissetee. Featuring conversations with the Mavericks of the industry. Includes: Basics: What are the new comics? with Scott McCloud and Larry Marder. Roots: The Undergrounds Ascending with Jack Jackson, Richard Corben, Lee marrs, and Howard Cruse. Mavericks and Moguls: Publish or Perish with Denis Kitchen, Dave Sims, Keven Eastman, Peter Laird, Jarvey Pekar, and Joyce Brabner. International Ambassadors: The Worldly Storytellers with Jean "Moebius" Giraud, Alan Moore, Eddie Campbell, Neil Gaiman, and Dave McKean. And, The New Independents: Pass the Ammunition with Frank Miller, Colleen Doran, Rick Veitch, Todd McFarlane, and Will Eisner. Hardcover, 312 pages, Text (with B&W Illustartions and Photos). Cover price $25.00.

Limited Signed Edition - 1st printing. By Stanley Wiater and Stephen R. Bissetee. Featuring conversations with the Mavericks of the industry. Includes: Basics: What are the new comics? with Scott McCloud and Larry Marder. Roots: The Undergrounds Ascending with Jack Jackson, Richard Corben, Lee marrs, and Howard Cruse. Mavericks and Moguls: Publish or Perish with Denis Kitchen, Dave Sims, Keven Eastman, Peter Laird, Jarvey Pekar, and Joyce Brabner. International Ambassadors: The Worldly Storytellers with Jean "Moebius" Giraud, Alan Moore, Eddie Campbell, Neil Gaiman, and Dave McKean. And, The New Independents: Pass the Ammunition with Frank Miller, Colleen Doran, Rick Veitch, Todd McFarlane, and Will Eisner. Hardcover (with Slipcase), 318 pages, Text (with B&W Illustartions and Photos). NOTE: Limited to 750 copies.

NOTE: Signed by Neil Gaiman, Frank Miller, Alan Moore, Dave McKean, Dave Sim, Stanley Wiater, Stephen R. Bissetee, and Will Eisner.

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1st printing. By William W. Savage. COMIC BOOKS AND AMERICA measures a remarkably popular medium's reflection of social and political problems during a troubled period in American history. Hardcover, 5 1/2-in. x 8-in., 152 pages, Text (with B&W Illustrations).

1st printing.

By Shawna Kidman.

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. Visiting critical moments along the way, Shawna Kidman concludes this revisionist history in the early 2000s, when Hollywood had fully incorporated comic book properties and strategies into its business models. The medium had transformed into the heavily exploited, exceedingly corporate, and highly esteemed art form we know so well today.

Softcover, 6-in. x 9-in., 336 pages, Text (with B&W photos and illustrations).

Cover price $34.95.

1st printing. By Dan Gearino. Comic book shops came into their own in the 1970s, a new breed of small businesses that transformed the way comics are marketed and sold. The shops created a space for quirky ideas to gain an audience, and helped some small-press comics turn into media giants. Gearino, a business journalist, leads a tour through this world, going back to the dawn of the modern comic shop, and also looking at the present-day market. Along the way, he captures the voices of creators, store owners, and players from around the U.S. and Canada including Steve Geppi, Paul Levitz, Diana Schutz, Chuck Rozanski, Bud Plant, and many more. Hardcover, 5 1/2-in. x 8 1/2-in., 224 pages, B&W. Cover price $26.95.

Add to cart Near Mint $3.00

November-December 2007. Featuring reprints of Popeye, The Yellow Kid, Little Nemo, Krazy Kat, Gasoline Alley, Little Orphan Annie, Dick Tracy, Flash Gordon, Terry and the Pirates, Our Gang, Steve Canyon, Peanuts, Dennis The Menace, and B.C. Newspaper format, 8 1/2-in x 11-in, 16 Pages, PC/PB&W. Cover price $1.00.

1st printing. By Ron Lackmann. During the memorable years when Radio was America's favorite home entertainment medium, the airwaves were permeated with all sorts of programming. There were the daytime dramas of domestic stress and five-day-a-week children's adventure serials. There were even adaptations of great works of the theater and literature. From Archie Andrews to Tom Mix, all radio characters and programs that ever stemmed from a comic book or comic strip in radio's golden age are collected here, for the first time, in an easy-to-read, A through Z book! Softcover, 6-in. x 9-in., 206 pages, B&W. NOTE: The indicia says 2004, but this book was released 02/2012. Cover price $19.95.

1st printing.

Written by Dan Raviv. Cover by Amanda Conner.

In 1996 Marvel Comics declared bankruptcy. This is the true story of the life-or-death struggle to keep the House of Ideas (i.e. Spider-Man, the X-Men, Captain America, the Hulk, Fantastic Four, and all the rest) alive.

Softcover, 6-in. x 9-in., 338 pages, Text (w/B&W chapter illustrations).

Cover price $13.99.

1st printing. Edited by Benjamin Woo and Jeremy Stoll. The Comics World: Comic Books, Graphic Novels, and Their Publics is the first collection to explicitly examine the production, circulation, and reception of comics from a social-scientific point of view. Taking the concept of a "comics world"-that is, the collection of people, roles, and institutions that "produce" comics as they are-as its organizing principle, the book asks readers to attend to the contexts that shape how comics move through societies and cultures. Through their research, contributors demonstrate some of the ways that people participate in comics worlds and how the relationships created in these spaces can provide different perspectives on comics and comics studies. Softcover, 6-in. x 9-in., 268 pages, Text only. Cover price $30.00.

Add to cart Near Mint $6.00

Add to cart Near Mint $6.00

1st printing. Written by Rob Salkowitz. For those with a keen eye, the annual Comic-Con International serves as a showcase for trends in technology, demographics, and globalization that shape economic development. Award-winning business author and futurist Rob Salkowitz refers to it as a "massive focus group and marketing megaphone" for Hollywood, and in Comic-Con and the Business of Pop Culture, he examines the business of popular culture through the lens of Comic-Con. He offers an entertaining but substantive look at the show, providing a close look at the comic-book and videogame industries' expanding influence on marketing, merchandising, and the entertainment industry. Hardcover, 304 pages, Text (with color and B&W photographs) Cover price $27.00.

Add to cart Near Mint $7.00

Add to cart Near Mint $7.00

1st printing. By Morgan Spurlock. Oscar-nominated filmmaker Morgan Spurlock, TV producer Joss Whedon, comic book legend Stan Lee, online film guru Harry Knowles, and producer Thomas Tull are the brains behind Comic-Con Episode IV: A Fan's Hope, the feature-length documentary on the ever-growing influence Comic-Con has over comics, film, television, and pop culture. This companion book offers an in-depth look at the experience of Comic-Con: what it is, what goes on, and how it became the quintessential center of American pop culture. Hardcover, 9-in. x 12-in., 192 pages, full color. Cover price $24.99.

Add to cart Near Mint $17.00

1st printing. By Dan Mazur and Alexander Danner. Comics, manga, bandes dessinées, fumetti, tebeo, historietas - no matter the name, they have been a powerful medium across four continents for decades. This is the history of comics around the world from the late 1960s to the dawn of the 21st century. The images here are bright and colorful, dark and brooding, arresting and pleasant, all at the same time. An unprecedented collection includes around 260 expertly chosen illustrations, many reproduced in full-page format for more sophisticated analysis. In showing us both post-apocalyptic dreamscapes and portraits of the everyday, Comics looks at this thirty-plus year period through a very unique lens. Softcover, 304 pages, full color. Cover price $39.95.

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1st printing.

By Durwin S. Talon.

Whether youre a comics artist looking for new avenues to market your talents, or a fan curious about how pros make a living outside the field, this is the book for you! Comics tremendous effect on popular culture is now felt in other storytelling mediums, and many artists are finding more and more work beyond the four-color page.

Assembled in COMICS ABOVE GROUND are top comics professionals talking about their inspirations and training, and how they apply it in Mainstream Media, including: Conceptual Illustration, Video Game Development, Childrens Books, Novels, Design, Illustration, Fine Art, Storyboards, Animation, Motion Pictures and other media. In it, Bruce Timm, Bernie Wrightson, Adam Hughes, Louise Simonson, Dave Dorman, Greg Rucka and other creators share their perspectives and their work in both comics and their other professions.

This book also boasts career overviews, never before seen art, and interviews, as well as featuring the creators favorite works in comics!

Softcover (Horizontal Format), 11-in. x 8-in., 160 pages, B&W.

Cover price $19.95.

1st printing.

By Steven Brower.

Comics and modern American advertising exploded into the public conscious at much the same time in the early 20th century. Collected now for the first time, the comics, cartoons and illustrations from the OTHER career of comics creators Jack Davis (Mad), Al Capp (Li'l Abner) John Romita (Spider-Man), Mort Meskin (Sheena), Ross Andru (Spider-Man), Sheldon Moldoff (Batman), Neal Adams (X-Men), Noel Sickles (Scorchy Smith), Stan Drake (Blondie), Joe Simon, (Captain America), Basil Wolverton (Mad), Dik Browne (Hagar the Horrible), Clifford McBride (Napoleon), Hank Ketcham (Dennis the Menace), Lou Fine (The Spirit), Daniel Clowes (Ghost World) and many more.

Softcover, 9-in. x 12-in., 140 pages, full color.

1st Edition - 1st printing. "1895-1974!" Written by Jerry Robinson. Art by Walt Kelly, Winsor McCay, Milt Caniff and Hal Foster. From Jerry Robinson, legendary creator of the Joker and prominent figure in monthly books, daily strips, and comics journalism, comes a comprehensive history of the truly American art form! The Comics chronicles the origins and evolution of comic strips, from prior to the Yellow Kid through today, and highlights the game-changing contributions of such creative luminaries as Milton Caniff, Walt Kelly, Hal Foster, and Winsor McCay, among countless others. A fascinating resource of enduring excellence for fans of the art form, historians, and casual readers alike. The Comics is an authoritative history of the medium from living legend Jerry Robinson! Hardcover, 9-in. x 12-in., 256 pages, full color.

Updated Edition - 1st printing. "1895-2010!" Written by Jerry Robinson. Art by Walt Kelly, Winsor McCay, Milt Caniff and Hal Foster. From Jerry Robinson, legendary creator of the Joker, seventy-year veteran of the comics industry, and prominent figure in monthly books, daily strips, and comics journalism, comes a comprehensive history of the truly American art form! The Comics is a fully reworked and updated edition of the 1974 classic that chronicles the origins and evolution of comic strips, from prior to the Yellow Kid through today, and highlights the game-changing contributions of such creative luminaries as Milton Caniff, Walt Kelly, Hal Foster, and Winsor McCay, among countless others. A fascinating resource of enduring excellence for fans of the art form, historians, and casual readers alike, this edition has been extensively revisited by Robinson and tells the stories behind the newsprint page. The Comics is an authoritative history of the medium from living legend Jerry Robinson! Other books by Jerry Robinson include the biography Skippy and Percy Crosby and The 1970s: Best Political Cartoons of the Decade. Hardcover, 9-in. x 12-in., 296 pages, full color. Cover price $39.99.

1st printing. Written by Jerry Robinson. Art by Walt Kelly, Winsor McCay, Milt Caniff and Hal Foster. From Jerry Robinson, legendary creator of the Joker and prominent figure in monthly books, daily strips, and comics journalism, comes a comprehensive history of the truly American art form! The Comics chronicles the origins and evolution of comic strips, from prior to the Yellow Kid through today, and highlights the game-changing contributions of such creative luminaries as Milton Caniff, Walt Kelly, Hal Foster, and Winsor McCay, among countless others. A fascinating resource of enduring excellence for fans of the art form, historians, and casual readers alike. The Comics is an authoritative history of the medium from living legend Jerry Robinson! Softcover, 9-in. x 12-in., 256 pages, PC/PB&W. Cover price $6.95.

1st printing. By Reinhold Reitberger and Wolfgang Fuchs. The first detailed history of the comics as art, entertainment, industry, and reflection of our culture, featuring - The Angel, Aquaman, Archie, Barbarella, Batman, Buck Rogers, Captain America, Daredevil, Donald Duck, Flash Gordon, Fritz the Cat, Green Hornet, Iron Man, Little Nemo, Mandrake the Magician, the Phantom, Rin Tin Tin, Silver Surfer, Terry and the Pirates, the Viking Prince, Wonder Woman, the Yellow Kid, Zorro, and many more! Includes over 300 illustrations! Hardcover, 9.5" x 11.5", 264 pages, B&W.

1st printing. By Reinhold Reitberger and Wolfgang Fuchs. The first detailed history of the comics as art, entertainment, industry, and reflection of our culture, featuring - The Angel, Aquaman, Archie, Barbarella, Batman, Buck Rogers, Captain America, Daredevil, Donald Duck, Flash Gordon, Fritz the Cat, Green Hornet, Iron Man, Little Nemo, Mandrake the Magician, the Phantom, Rin Tin Tin, Silver Surfer, Terry and the Pirates, the Viking Prince, Wonder Woman, the Yellow Kid, Zorro, and many more! Includes over 300 illustrations! Hardcover, 9.5" x 11.5", 264 pages, B&W.

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1st printing. By Reinhold Reitberger and Wolfgang Fuchs. The first detailed history of the comics as art, entertainment, industry, and reflection of our culture, featuring - The Angel, Aquaman, Archie, Barbarella, Batman, Buck Rogers, Captain America, Daredevil, Donald Duck, Flash Gordon, Fritz the Cat, Green Hornet, Iron Man, Little Nemo, Mandrake the Magician, the Phantom, Rin Tin Tin, Silver Surfer, Terry and the Pirates, the Viking Prince, Wonder Woman, the Yellow Kid, Zorro, and many more! Includes over 300 illustrations! Softcover, 9-in. x 12-in., 264 pages, B&W. Cover price $6.95.

1st printing.

Cover by Lorenzo Mattotti and Jerry Kramsky.

Edited by Benoit Mitaine, David Roche, and Isabelle Schmitt-Pitiot. Translated by Aarnoud Rommens and David Roche.

Both comics studies and adaptation studies have grown separately over the past twenty years. Yet there are few in-depth studies of comic books and adaptations together. Available for the first time in English, this collection pores over the phenomenon of comic books and adaptation, sifting through comics as both sources and results of adaptation. Essays shed light on the many ways adaptation studies inform research on comic books and content adapted from them. Contributors concentrate on fidelity to the source materials, comparative analysis, forms of media, adaptation and myth, adaptation and intertextuality, as well as adaptation and ideology.

Softcover, 6-in. x 9-in., 240 pages, Text (with B&W Photos).

Cover price $30.00.

1st printing.

By Hannah Miodrag.

It has become an axiom in comic studies that "comics is a language, not a genre." But what exactly does that mean, and how is discourse on the form both aided and hindered by thinking of it in linguistic terms?

In Comics and Language, Hannah Miodrag challenges many of the key assumptions about the "grammar" and formal characteristics of comics and offers a more nuanced, theoretical framework that she argues will better serve the field by providing a consistent means for communicating critical theory in the scholarship. She exposes the problems embedded in the ways critics have used ideas of language, literature, structuralism, and semiotics, and sets out a new and more theoretically sound way of understanding how comics communicate.

Softcover, 6-in. x 9-in., 280 pages, B&W.

Cover price $30.00.

Add to cart Near Mint $24.00

1st printing. By Hannah Miodrag. Hannah Miodrag challenges many of the key assumptions about the "grammar" and formal characteristics of comics and offers a more nuanced theoretical framework that she argues will better communicate. Through engaging close readings and accessible use of theory, this book exposes the problems in previous critical takes. Hardcover, 6-in. x 9-in., 240 pages, Text (with B&W illustrations).

1st printing. Edited by Jonathan Najarian. Contributions by David M. Ball, Scott Bukatman, Hillary Chute, Jean Lee Cole, Louise Kane, Matthew Levay, Andrei Molotiu, Jonathan Najarian, Katherine Roeder, Noa Saunders, Clémence Sfadj, Nick Sturm, Glenn Willmott, and Daniel Worden. The first collection to engage with the fascinating overlap between comics and modernism. Since the early 1990s, cartoonist Art Spiegelman has made the case that comics are the natural inheritor of the aesthetic tradition associated with the modernist movement of the early twentieth century. In recent years, scholars have begun to place greater import on the shared historical circumstances of early comics and literary and artistic modernism. COMICS AND MODERNISM: HISTORY, FORM, AND CULTURE is an interdisciplinary consideration of myriad social, cultural, and aesthetic connections. Softcover, 6-in. x 9-in., 278 pages, Text (with B&W Illustrations and Photos). Cover price $30.00.

1st printing. By Thierry Gronesteen. In Thierry Groensteen's The System of Comics, the comics theorist set out to investigate how the medium functions, introducing the principle of iconic solidarity, and showing the systems that underlie the articulation between panels at three levels: page layout, linear sequence, and nonsequential links woven through the comic book as a whole. He now develops that analysis further, using examples from a very wide range of comics, including the work of American artists such as Chris Ware and Robert Crumb. He tests out his theoretical framework by bringing it up against cases that challenge it, such as abstract comics, digital comics, and shoujo manga. Softcover, 6-in. x 9-in., 216 pages, B&W. Cover price $30.00.

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How comics, graphic novels, and sacred texts work in concert to expand our sense of the holy. Comics and Sacred Texts explores how comics and notions of the sacred interweave new modes of seeing and understanding the sacral. Comics and graphic narratives help readers see religion in the everyday and in depictions of God, in transfigured, heroic selves as much as in the lives of saints and the meters of holy languages. Coeditors Assaf Gamzou and Ken Koltun-Fromm reveal the graphic character of sacred narratives, imagining new vistas for both comics and religious texts.

Softcover, 6-in. x 9-in., 288 pages, B&W.

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1st printing. A wide-ranging survey of how comics have portrayed Southern ways of life, these essays seek to discover what Captain America can reveal about Southern regionalism, and how slave narratives can help us reread Swamp Thing; others examine how creators such as Walt Kelly (Pogo), Howard Cruse (Stuck Rubber Baby), Kyle Baker (Nat Turner), and Josh Neufeld (A.D.: New Orleans After the Deluge) draw upon the unique formal properties of the comics to question and revise familiar narratives of race, class, and sexuality. Hardcover, 6-in. x 9-in., 304 pages, B&W. Cover price $55.00.

1st printing. "Stories of American Cartoonists!" By Martin Sheridan. This volume is one of the first books to recount the early days of comic strip history. Sections include The Old Stand-Bys, Married Strips, Adventure Strips, Girl strips, Potpourri, Fantastic Strips, and Panel Strips, with an additional section on animated cartoons. All of the famous strips receive their own chapters, plus many now-obscure strips. Chapters include Flash Gordon, Superman, Tarzan, Buck Rogers, Alley Oop, Popeye, Blondie, The Gumps, Gasoline Alley, Krazy Kat, Little Orphan Annie, Mutt and Jeff, The Katzenjammer Kids, Dick Tracy, Li'l Abner, Terry and the Pirates, Believe It or Not, Grin and Bear It, and many, many more! Each chapter tells about the cartoonist who creates the strip. Hardcover (with Dust Jacket), 6.25-in. x 9.25-in., 304 pages, Text (with B&W illustrations).

NO Dust Jacket - 1st printing. "Stories of American Cartoonists!" By Martin Sheridan. This volume is one of the first books to recount the early days of comic strip history. Sections include The Old Stand-Bys, Married Strips, Adventure Strips, Girl strips, Potpourri, Fantastic Strips, and Panel Strips, with an additional section on animated cartoons. All of the famous strips receive their own chapters, plus many now-obscure strips. Chapters include Flash Gordon, Superman, Tarzan, Buck Rogers, Alley Oop, Popeye, Blondie, The Gumps, Gasoline Alley, Krazy Kat, Little Orphan Annie, Mutt and Jeff, The Katzenjammer Kids, Dick Tracy, Li'l Abner, Terry and the Pirates, Believe It or Not, Grin and Bear It, and many, many more! Each chapter tells about the cartoonist who creates the strip. Hardcover, 6.25-in. x 9.25-in., 304 pages, Text (with B&W illustrations).