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  • A Charlie Brown Religion

    Exploring the Spiritual Life and Work of Charles M. Schulz

    by Stephen J. Lind ...
    Series series Great Comics Artists Series
    Charles M. Schulz's Peanuts comic strip franchise, the most successful of all time, forever changed the industry. For more than half a century, the endearing, witty insights brought to life by Charlie Brown, Snoopy, Linus, and Lucy have caused newspaper readers and television viewers across the globe to laugh, sigh, gasp, and ponder. A Charlie Brown Religion explores one of the most provocative ... Read more

    $14.39 USD

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  • My Life with Charlie Brown

    by Charles M. Schulz ...
    While best known as the creator of Peanuts, Charles M. Schulz (1922-2000) was also a thoughtful and precise prose writer who knew how to explain his craft in clear and engaging ways. My Life with Charlie Brown brings together his major prose writings, many published here for the first time.Schulz's autobiographical articles, book introductions, magazine pieces, lectures, and commentary elucidate ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • 100 Sexiest Women in Comics

    by Brent Frankenhoff ...
    Va-Va-Voom!For decades, fans have known the secret identities and powers of the beautiful women found in the comic book universe. Now you can savor the visual delights of the 100 Sexiest Women of Comics. From Aspen and Catwoman to Sue Storm and Zatanna, we rank 'em-and tell you a bit about their comics careers in this eye-popping and revealing book.Face it, tiger-you just hit the j... ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Tintin

    by Jean-Marc Lofficier, Randy Lofficier ...
    An updated edition just in time for Steven Spielberg's animated film The Adventures of Tintin, premiering December 23, 2011, produced by Peter Jackson and starring Daniel Craig, Simon Pegg, and Jamie Bell as TintinThe silhouette of Tintin—a young man wearing golf pants, running with a white fox terrier by his side—is easily one of the most recognizable visual icons of the modern world. In fact ... Read more

    $10.49 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Astro Boy Essays

    Osamu Tezuka, Mighty Atom, and the Manga/Anime Revolution

    by Frederik L. Schodt ...
    A tribute to Japan's God of Manga by his long-time American friend and translator.The pioneering genius of Japan’s “God of Comics,” Osamu Tezuka (1928–89), is examined through his life’s masterwork: Tetsuwan Atomu, also known as Mighty Atom or Astro Boy, a comic series featuring a cute little android who yearns to be more human. The history of Tetsuwan Atomu and Tezuka’s role in it is a road map ... Read more

    $8.69 USD

  • Film and Comic Books

    Edited by Ian Gordon, Mark Jancovich, Matthew P. McAllister ...
    In Film and Comic Books contributors analyze the problems of adapting one medium to another; the translation of comics aesthetics into film; audience expectations, reception, and reaction to comic book-based films; and the adaptation of films into comics.A wide range of comic/film adaptations are explored, including superheroes (Spider-Man), comic strips (Dick Tracy), realist and autobiographical ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Steaming into a Victorian Future

    A Steampunk Anthology

    Edited by Julie Anne Taddeo, Cynthia J. Miller ...
    A popular sub-genre of fantasy and science fiction, steampunk re-imagines the Victorian age in the future, and re-works its technology, fashion, and values with a dose of anti-modernism. While often considered solely through the lens of literature, steampunk is, in fact, a complex phenomenon that also affects, transforms, and unites a wide range of disciplines, such as art, music, film, television ... Read more

    $33.19 USD

  • Old Trout Funnies

    The Comic Origins of the Cape Breton Liberation Army

    by Ian Brodie, PhD ...
    Now iconic to Canadian, if not global culture, Cape Breton Island underwent a metamorphosis of sorts during the 1970s and 1980s. Long marginalized by geography, economics and predominant mainland political culture, a countercultural sea change brought the island’s deeply rooted creative side—music, drama, literature and humour—to centre stage. One such stage was Old Trout Funnies, a homegrown ... Read more

    $8.69 USD

  • The Quest for Jewish Belief and Identity in the Graphic Novel

    by Stephen E. Tabachnick ...
    Many Jewish artists and writers contributed to the creation of popular comics and graphic novels, and in The Quest for Jewish Belief and Identity in the Graphic Novel, Stephen E. Tabachnick takes readers on an engaging tour of graphic novels that explore themes of Jewish identity and belief.The creators of Superman (Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster), Batman (Bob Kane and Bill Finger), and the Marvel ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

  • Comics and Language

    Reimagining Critical Discourse on the Form

    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 ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

  • Filling the Hole in the Nuclear Future

    Art and Popular Culture Respond to the Bomb

    by Robert Jacobs, Mick Broderick, John Canaday, Tom Engelhardt, Carole Gallagher, Judy Hiramoto, Kenji Ito, Minoru Maeda, Naoko Maeda, Yuki Tanaka, Spencer Weart ...
    Series series AsiaWorld
    From the dawn of the atomic age, art and popular culture have played an essential role interpreting nuclear issues to the public and investigating the implications of nuclear weapons to the future of human civilization. Political and social forces often seemed paralyzed in thinking beyond the advent of nuclear weapons and articulating a creative response to the dilemma posed by this apocalyptic ... Read more

    $47.79 USD

  • Welcome to the Multiverse: An Unauthorised Examination of Grant Morrison's Multiversity

    Guides to Comics, TV, and SF

    by Andrew Hickey ...
    Series series Guides to Comics, TV, and SF
    Andrew Hickey, author of An Incomprehensible Condition: An Unauthorised Guide To Grant Morrison's Seven Soldiers, takes a brief, discursive, tour through the many worlds of Grant Morrison's Multiversity series.Not authorised in any way by DC Comics, this is not a guidebook, and not annotations. Rather, it's a series of essays meditating on the themes of the comic, sometimes with only loose ... Read more

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