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  • Stan Lee and the Rise and Fall of the American Comic Book

    by Jordan Raphael, Tom Spurgeon ...
    Based on interviews with Stan Lee and dozens of his colleagues and contemporaries, as well as extensive archival research, this book provides a professional history, an appreciation, and a critical exploration of the face of Marvel Comics. Recognized as a dazzling writer, a skilled editor, a relentless self-promoter, a credit hog, and a huckster, Stan Lee rose from his humble beginnings to ride ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Romita Legacy

    by Tom Spurgeon, Brian Cunningham ...
    Series series The Romita Legacy
    John Romita Sr is as synonymous with Marvel as is Stan Lee. Stan was the definitive writer and visionary of the Marvel Universe, but Jazzy John was the ultimate catcher to all of Stan's pitches. Arguably the most important contributor to Marvel canon with Jack Kirby, and arguably the definitive Spider-Man artist, John Romita has left his mark creating, defining and/or designing some of Marvel's ... Read more

    $23.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Comic Shop

    The Retail Mavericks Who Gave Us a New Geek Culture

    by Dan Gearino ...
    The modern comic book shop was born in the early 1970s. Its rise was due in large part to Phil Seuling, the entrepreneur whose direct market model allowed shops to get comics straight from the publishers. Stores could then better customize their offerings and independent publishers could access national distribution. Shops opened up a space for quirky ideas to gain an audience and helped transform ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

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  • Comic Wars

    Marvel's Battle For Survival

    by Dan Raviv ...
    How did a bankrupt comic book publisher become one of the top movie studios in Hollywood? As ferocious and fateful as any battle in the pages of Marvel Comics, this is the true story of the life-or-death struggle for Marvel -- choked by bankruptcy in 1996 because of high-powered money men who did not care at all about Spider-Man, the X-Men, the Incredible Hulk, Captain America, or the other iconic ... Read more

    $5.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Dick Grayson, Boy Wonder

    Scholars and Creators on 75 Years of Robin, Nightwing and Batman

    Edited by Kristen L. Geaman ...
    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 to focus exclusively on the Boy Wonder, this ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

  • Popeye: An Illustrated Cultural History, 2d ed.

    An Illustrated Cultural History, 2d ed.

    by Fred M. Grandinetti ...
    It's a rare comic character who can make audiences laugh for well over half a century--but then again, it's a pretty rare cartoon hero who can boast of forearms thicker than his waist, who can down a can of spinach in a single gulp, or who generally faces the world with one eye squinted completely shut. When E.C. Segar's gruff but lovable sailor man first tooted his pipe to the public on January 7 ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

  • Father of the Comic Strip

    Rodolphe Töpffer

    by David Kunzle ...
    Sixty years before the comics entered the American newspaper press, Rodolphe Töpffer of Geneva (1799-1846), schoolmaster, university professor, polemical journalist, art critic, landscape draftsman, and writer of fiction, travel tales, and social criticism, invented a new art form: the comic strip, or "picture story," that is now the graphic novel. At first he resisted publishing what he called ... Read more

    $39.99 USD

  • 2000 AD: The Creator Interviews Volume One

    by Michael Molcher, Pat Mills, Carlos Ezquerra, Ron Smith, Mick McMahon ...
    Series Book 1 - 2000 AD: The Creator Interviews
    Exclusive interviews and career overviews of key comics creators taken from the pages of the Judge Dredd Megazine. In this first collection Pat Mills, Carlos Ezquerra, Ron Smith and Mick McMahon discuss their work in comics, 2000 AD and many other titles in great detail. ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

  • Canadian Graphic

    Picturing Life Narratives

    Edited by Candida Rifkind, Linda Warley ...
    Series Book 57 - Life Writing
    Canadian Graphic: Picturing Life Narratives presents critical essays on contemporary Canadian cartoonists working in graphic life narrative, from confession to memoir to biography. The contributors draw on literary theory, visual studies, and cultural history to show how Canadian cartoonists have become so prominent in the international market for comic books based on real-life experiences. The ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Marvel's Black Widow from Spy to Superhero

    Essays on an Avenger with a Very Specific Skill Set

    Edited by Sherry Ginn ...
    First appearing in Marvel Comics in the 1960s, Natasha Romanoff, a.k.a. Black Widow, was introduced to movie audiences in Iron Man 2 (2010). Her character has grown in popularity with subsequent Marvel films, and fans have been vocal about wanting to see Black Widow in a titular role. Romanoff has potent appeal: a strong female character who is not defined by her looks or her romantic ... Read more

    $16.99 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

    $47.99 USD

  • Heroines of Comic Books and Literature

    Portrayals in Popular Culture

    by Caryn E. Neumann, Sandra J. Lindow, Tricia Clasen, Lauren Lemley, Adina Schneeweis, Christina M. Smith, Mauricio Espinoza, Itir Erhart, Hande Eslen-Ziya, Christopher Paul Wagenheim, Anita McDaniel, Sharon Zechowski, Trina Robbins, April Jo Murphy, Roy Cook, T. Keith Edmunds, Fernando Gabriel Pagnoni Berns, Michael R. Kramer, Joseph J. Darowski, K. A. Laity, Nathan Miczo ...
    Despite the growing importance of heroines across literary culture—and sales figures that demonstrate both young adult and adult females are reading about heroines in droves, particularly in graphic novels, comic books, and YA literature—few scholarly collections have examined the complex relationships between the representations of heroines and the changing societal roles for both women and men ... Read more

    $36.99 USD