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Author
Series
Complete Crumb comics volume 17
Publisher
Fantagraphics Books
Pub. Date
<2005>
Physical Desc
v. <17> : chiefly ill. (some col.) ; 29 cm
Language
English
Publisher
Archie Comic Publications, Inc
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
304 pages : color illustrations ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
"This ENCYCLOPEDIA of Archie Comics characters and universes is the be-all, end-all guide to everything in the expanded and ever-growing world of Archie Comics! Sure, you may know who Archie, Betty, Veronica, Jughead, and Reggie are, and maybe you even know a thing or two about Dilton, Ethel, Cheryl, and Moose! But that's still only just scratching the surface of the vast library of Archie Comics characters! An ideal collector's item for mega-fans...
84) Inappropriate
Author
Publisher
Uncivilized Books
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
137 pages : chiefly illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Gabrielle Bell returns with a brilliant new collection of hilarious short stories. From a revisionist Red Riding Hood, to uncomfortable role reversals, Gabrielle Bell revels in skewering modern mores with razor-sharp humor and wry observations. Culled from The New Yorker, Paris Review, and Medium, including several brand new previously unpublished gems, Inappropriate collects Bell’s best short comics form the last couple of years."--Amazon.
Publisher
Time Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2013]
Physical Desc
256 pages : chiefly illustrations (some color) ; 32 cm
Language
English
Description
Celebrities discuss what MAD magazine means to them, and several of the magazine's artists, editors, and writers present their favorite pieces from the publication's history.
Author
Publisher
Taschen
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
396 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 34 cm
Language
English
Description
The Marvel of Age of Comics: 1961-1978 takes you through nearly two decades of titanic creativity by Marvel's architects. Fans still celebrate the House of Ideas for its pantheon of "heroes with problems," misunderstood monsters, and noble villains who populated a world readers recognized as close to their own. The Marvel Age of Comics is a behind-the-scenes treasure trove, curated from TASCHEN's 75 years of Marvel Comics, including hundreds of images...
Author
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
337 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Paul Hirsch's revelatory book opens the archives to show the complex relationships between comic books and American foreign relations in the mid-twentieth century. Scourged and repressed on the one hand, yet co-opted and deployed as propaganda on the other, violent, sexist comic books were both vital expressions of American freedom and upsetting depictions of the American id. Hirsch draws on previously classified material and newly available personal...
Publisher
Yale University Press
Pub. Date
c2006
Physical Desc
400 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 27 cm
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Comic artist Ivan Brunetti, the creator of Schizo, offers a best-of anthology of contemporary art comics, along with some classic comic strips and other historical materials that have retained a "modern" sensibility. As with Chris Ware's selections for his best-selling McSweeney's anthology, Brunetti's choices make for a highly personal book ("my criteria were simple: these are comics that I savor and often revisit") that serves as a broad historical...
Series
Little lit volume 3
Publisher
RAW Junior
Pub. Date
2003
Physical Desc
48 p. : chiefly col. ill. ; 35 cm.
Language
English
Description
A collection of comic strips by various artists, each of which begins with the phrase, "It was a dark and silly night..."
Author
Publisher
Continuum
Pub. Date
2002
Physical Desc
vii, 204 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"An analysis of superhero comic books beginning with Frank Miller's Batman: The Dark Knight Returns and Alan Moore's Watchmen drawing on the literary and psychoanalytic theory of Harold Bloom and Slavoj Žižek, How to Read Superhero Comics and Why argues for the recognition of a new age of superhero comic books. Klock builds through a discussion of Marvels, Astro City, Kingdom Come, Alan Moore's America's Best Comics and Grant Morrison's Justice...
Author
Publisher
Taschen
Pub. Date
[2013]
Physical Desc
415 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), portraits ; 33 cm
Language
English
Description
"In June of 1938, Action Comics debuted with a new kind of comic book character on its cover: A costumed man with two identities, who possessed extraordinary strength and powers, a man able to protect the public when ordinary measures would not do. He was not the first super hero, but the Man of Steel would become the prototype for all super heroes thereafter. Superman's story, and those of Batman, Wonder Woman, and hundreds of other DC Comics characters...
Publisher
Marvel Worldwide
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : chiefly color illustrations ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
"The cosmic dream team is reunited at last! After the Guardians of the Galaxy disbanded, Rocket Raccoon settled into a quiet life with a steady job in a mailroom. But when a killer clown made of sentient wood attacks him at work, the trigger-fingered and quick-witted hero must journey to Planet X-- home of his old buddy Groot, the giant tree-creature-- in search of answers! Then, Mojo, bloated entertainment mogul of the Mojoverse, battles Rocket Raccoon...
Author
Series
Rutabaga the adventure chef volume 1
Publisher
Amulet Books
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
127 pages : color illustrations ; 20 cm
Language
English
Description
"In a world where there are dragons, wyverns, and haunted squash, you'd figure someone would have recipes for them, right? Rutabaga and his magic cooking pot, Pot, join young adventurers Winnifred, Manny, and Beef on a quest to defeat a dragon, discover new ingredients, find monsters to have for and/or to dinner, and to save the day through cooking. Rutabaga will dare any danger to uncover new tastes, and there's a whole world full of food to try--from...
Author
Series
Publisher
Fantagraphics Books
Pub. Date
c2011
Physical Desc
289 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Welcome to the Okefenokee Swamp where you're apt to meet someone you know, someone you want to know and at least a few you'll quote to your dying day. Walt Kelly launched the Pogo newspaper strip in 1948 and after but three years, his cartooning brethen awarded him their highest honor, the Reuben Award. A good chunk of that three years is contained in this book. It's the first volume of the long-desired complete reprinting of every daily Pogo strip...
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