The Hernandez Brothers

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Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Press
ISBN 13 : 0822982927
Total Pages : 168 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (229 download)

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Book Synopsis The Hernandez Brothers by : Enrique Garcia

Download or read book The Hernandez Brothers written by Enrique Garcia and published by University of Pittsburgh Press. This book was released on 2017-08-18 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study offers a critical examination of the work of Gilbert and Jaime Hernandez, Mexican-American brothers whose graphic novels are highly influential. The Hernandez brothers started in the alt-comics scene, where their ‘Love and Rockets’ series quickly gained prominence. They have since published in more mainstream venues but have maintained an outsider status based on their own background and the content of their work. Enrique García argues that the Hernandez brothers have worked to create a new American graphic storytelling that, while still in touch with mainstream genres, provides a transgressive alternative from an aesthetic, gender, and ethnic perspective. The brothers were able to experiment with and modify these genres by taking advantage of the editorial freedom of independent publishing. This freedom also allowed them to explore issues of ethnic and gender identity in transgressive ways. Their depictions of latinidad and sexuality push against the edicts of mainstream Anglophone culture, but they also defy many Latino perceptions of life, politics, and self-representation. The book concludes with an in-depth interview with Jaime and Gilbert Hernandez that touches on and goes beyond the themes explored in the book.

Alternative Comics

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Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN 13 : 1604735872
Total Pages : 199 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (47 download)

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Book Synopsis Alternative Comics by : Charles Hatfield

Download or read book Alternative Comics written by Charles Hatfield and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 2009-11-12 with total page 199 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the 1980s, a sea change occurred in comics. Fueled by Art Spiegel- man and Franoise Mouly's avant-garde anthology Raw and the launch of the Love Rockets series by Gilbert, Jaime, and Mario Hernandez, the decade saw a deluge of comics that were more autobiographical, emotionally realistic, and experimental than anything seen before. These alternative comics were not the scatological satires of the 1960s underground, nor were they brightly colored newspaper strips or superhero comic books. In Alternative Comics: An Emerging Literature, Charles Hatfield establishes the parameters of alternative comics by closely examining long-form comics, in particular the graphic novel. He argues that these are fundamentally a literary form and offers an extensive critical study of them both as a literary genre and as a cultural phenomenon. Combining sharp-eyed readings and illustrations from particular texts with a larger understanding of the comics as an art form, this book discusses the development of specific genres, such as autobiography and history. Alternative Comics analyzes such seminal works as Spiegelman's Maus, Gilbert Hernandez's Palomar: The Heartbreak Soup Stories, and Justin Green's Binky Brown Meets the Holy Virgin Mary.

Below Critical Radar

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Publisher : Codex
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Book Synopsis Below Critical Radar by : Teal Triggs

Download or read book Below Critical Radar written by Teal Triggs and published by Codex. This book was released on 2000 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The move from the underground to the mainstream by many fanzines and underground comics has been largely ignored by the mainstream media. These writings consider how and why this has occurred and the relationship between reader and producer.

Distinctive Styles and Authorship in Alternative Comics

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Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3110693682
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (16 download)

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Book Synopsis Distinctive Styles and Authorship in Alternative Comics by : Lukas Etter

Download or read book Distinctive Styles and Authorship in Alternative Comics written by Lukas Etter and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2020-12-16 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Distinctive Styles and Authorship in Alternative Comics addresses the benefits and limits of analyses of style in alternative comics. It offers three close readings of works serially published between 1980 and 2018 – Art Spiegelman’s Maus, Alison Bechdel’s Dykes to Watch Out For, and Jason Lutes’ Berlin – and discusses how artistic style may influence the ways in which readers construct authorship.

The Canadian Alternative

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Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN 13 : 1496815122
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (968 download)

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Book Synopsis The Canadian Alternative by : Dominick Grace

Download or read book The Canadian Alternative written by Dominick Grace and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 2017-11-20 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contributions by Jordan Bolay, Ian Brodie, Jocelyn Sakal Froese, Dominick Grace, Eric Hoffman, Paddy Johnston, Ivan Kocmarek, Jessica Langston, Judith Leggatt, Daniel Marrone, Mark J. McLaughlin, Joan Ormrod, Laura A. Pearson, Annick Pellegrin, Mihaela Precup, Jason Sacks, and Ruth-Ellen St. Onge This overview of the history of Canadian comics explores acclaimed as well as unfamiliar artists. Contributors look at the myriad ways that English-language, Francophone, Indigenous, and queer Canadian comics and cartoonists pose alternatives to American comics, to dominant perceptions, even to gender and racial categories. In contrast to the United States' melting pot, Canada has been understood to comprise a social, cultural, and ethnic mosaic, with distinct cultural variation as part of its identity. This volume reveals differences that often reflect in highly regional and localized comics such as Paul MacKinnon's Cape Breton-specific Old Trout Funnies, Michel Rabagliati's Montreal-based Paul comics, and Kurt Martell and Christopher Merkley's Thunder Bay-specific zombie apocalypse. The collection also considers some of the conventionally "alternative" cartoonists, namely Seth, Dave Sim, and Chester Brown. It offers alternate views of the diverse and engaging work of two very different Canadian cartoonists who bring their own alternatives into play: Jeff Lemire in his bridging of Canadian/US and mainstream/alternative sensibilities and Nina Bunjevac in her own blending of realism and fantasy as well as of insider/outsider status. Despite an upsurge in research on Canadian comics, there is still remarkably little written about most major and all minor Canadian cartoonists. This volume provides insight into some of the lesser-known Canadian alternatives still awaiting full exploration.

Mid-Life

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Publisher : Drawn & Quarterly
ISBN 13 : 1770465790
Total Pages : 100 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (74 download)

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Book Synopsis Mid-Life by : Joe Ollmann

Download or read book Mid-Life written by Joe Ollmann and published by Drawn & Quarterly. This book was released on 2021-06-10 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mid-Life is the story of a forty-year-old man, John, who becomes a father again with his much-younger second wife which results in a slow, painful attack by flowered baby bags and front facing baby carriers on his former virility and self identity. John always believed that age is a state of mind, however, his adult daughters, baby son, energetic wife, stressful job, house full of cats, and flabby body complete with bloated stomach and sagging bosom all lead John reluctantly to admit that he is having a midlife crisis. The crisis drives John to yell at his wife, pick fights with his daughters and miss deadlines at work that put his job on the line. John takes solace from the stress of everyday life with a seemingly harmless infatuation with the pretty children's performer Sherry Smalls who sings adoringly to him directly from his son's DVD. Sherry, meanwhile, is equally desperate to find a distraction in life. Her path to rock stardom has been rudely overtaken by a semi-successful but completely loathsome gig as a children’s performer. It pays the bills, and a Saturday-morning television show is on the horizon—that is, if she is able to fire her alcoholic on-again, off-again boyfriend/bandmate. As their lives snowball, John’s infatuation turns into obsession and a haphazard, fateful e-mail leads to a necessary reality check that neither John nor Sherry may have wanted, but that both will surprisingly welcome.

Clover Honey

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Publisher : Alternative Comics
ISBN 13 : 1681485060
Total Pages : 140 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (814 download)

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Download or read book Clover Honey written by and published by Alternative Comics. This book was released on 2015-09-01 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Abigail is an aspiring hitwoman out to prove her value to the family. She braves the wilds of Newark, overpriced parking, traffic jams, and bad hair days to track down Trevor, her former mentor, who is on the lam with a big briefcase of mob dough. A heavily revised, redrawn, and expanded twentieth anniversary edition of Rich Tommaso's debut graphic novel. Rich Tommaso has been writing and illustrating original comics and graphic novels since 1994. His graphic novel with writer James Sturm, Satchel Paige: Striking Out Jim Crow, won an Eisner award for Best Reality-Based Work in 2008.

Beef with Tomato

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Publisher : Alternative Comics
ISBN 13 : 1934460818
Total Pages : 98 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (344 download)

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Book Synopsis Beef with Tomato by : Dean Haspiel

Download or read book Beef with Tomato written by Dean Haspiel and published by Alternative Comics. This book was released on 2015 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A native New Yorker leaves Manhattan for a fresh start in Brooklyn, only to face a new strain of street logic.

9-11 Emergency Relief

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Book Synopsis 9-11 Emergency Relief by : Alternative Comics

Download or read book 9-11 Emergency Relief written by Alternative Comics and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cartoonists offer personal accounts of their experiences related to the September 11 terrorist attacks.

The Book of Weirdo

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ISBN 13 : 9780867198751
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (987 download)

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Book Synopsis The Book of Weirdo by : Jon B. Cooke

Download or read book The Book of Weirdo written by Jon B. Cooke and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the definitive - and hugely entertaining - history of Weirdo magazine, the legendary Robert Crumb humour comics anthology from the 1980s. Weirdo took risks, broke barriers, and seriously offended the faint hearted. Ground-breaking and iconoclastic, it was an antidote to the times, a cult favourite show case for the counterculture.

Heroes of the Comics

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Publisher : Fantagraphics Books
ISBN 13 : 1606997319
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (69 download)

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Book Synopsis Heroes of the Comics by : Drew Friedman

Download or read book Heroes of the Comics written by Drew Friedman and published by Fantagraphics Books. This book was released on 2014-09-10 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Featuring over 80 full-color portraits of the pioneering legends of American comic books, including publishers, editors and artists from the industry’s birth in the ’30s, through the brilliant artists and writers of behind EC Comics in the ’50s. All lovingly rendered and chosen by Drew Friedman, a cartooning legend in his own right. Featuring subjects popular and obscure, men and women, as well as several pioneering African-American artists. Each subject features a short essay by Friedman, who grew up knowing many of the subjects included (as the son of writer Bruce Jay Friedman), including Stan Lee, Harvey Kurtzman, Will Eisner, Mort Drucker, Al Jaffee, Jack Davis, Will Elder, and Bill Gaines. More names you might recognize: Barks, Crumb, Wood, Wolverton, Frazetta, Siegel & Shuster, Kirby, Cole, Ditko, Werthem… it’s a Hall of Fame of comic book history from the man BoingBoing.com call “America’s greatest living portrait artist!”

The Complete Hate

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Publisher : Fantagraphics Books
ISBN 13 : 1683963555
Total Pages : 900 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (839 download)

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Book Synopsis The Complete Hate by : Peter Bagge

Download or read book The Complete Hate written by Peter Bagge and published by Fantagraphics Books. This book was released on 2020-11-24 with total page 900 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Complete Hate is a three-volume set that includes the original 1990-1998 30-issue run, the nine subsequent Hate Annuals, and tons of other Hate-related comics, illustrations, and ephemera created for books, magazines, comics, toys, and other merchandise. Bagge combined his cartoony drawing style with uncomfortably real Gen X characters, and the comic books resonated with readers. Book One (Hate 1-15), focuses on young Buddy Bradley's travails in early 1990s Seattle. Book Two focuses on Buddy and his girlfriend Lisa Leavenworth's move back to Buddy's native New Jersey (and a switch from black-and-white to full color). Book Three features the final arc of Bagge's magnum opus, as Buddy and Lisa become parents (and buy a garbage dump).

Tunnels

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Publisher : Drawn & Quarterly
ISBN 13 : 177046560X
Total Pages : 287 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (74 download)

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Book Synopsis Tunnels by : Rutu Modan

Download or read book Tunnels written by Rutu Modan and published by Drawn & Quarterly. This book was released on 2021-11-02 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When a great antiquities collector is forced to donate his entire collection to the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, Nili Broshi sees her last chance to finish an archaeological expedition begun decades earlier—a dig that could possibly yield the most important religious artifact in the Middle East. Motivated by the desire to reinstate her father’s legacy as a great archaeologist after he was marginalized by his rival, Nili enlists a ragtag crew—a religious nationalist and his band of hilltop youths, her traitorous brother, and her childhood Palestinian friend, now an archaeological smuggler. As Nili’s father slips deeper into dementia, warring factions close in on and fight over the Ark of the Covenant! Backed by extensive research into this real-world treasure hunt, Rutu Modan sets her affecting novel at the center of a political crisis. She posits that the history of biblical Israel lies in one of the most disputed regions in the world, occupied by Israel and contested by Palestine. Often in direct competition, Palestinians and Israelis dig alongside one another, hoping to find the sacred artifact believed to be a conduit to God. Two-time Eisner Award winner Rutu Modan’s third graphic novel, Tunnels, is her deepest and wildest yet. Potent and funny, Modan reveals the Middle East as no westerner could. Ishai Mishory is a longtime New York City—and newly Bay Area—based translator and sometimes illustrator. He is currently conducting research for a PhD dissertation on 16th century Italian printing.

The Superhero Reader

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Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN 13 : 1617038032
Total Pages : 319 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (17 download)

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Book Synopsis The Superhero Reader by : Charles Hatfield

Download or read book The Superhero Reader written by Charles Hatfield and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 2013-06-14 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Despite their commercial appeal and cross-media reach, superheroes are only recently starting to attract sustained scholarly attention. This groundbreaking collection brings together essays and book excerpts by major writers on comics and popular culture. While superhero comics are a distinct and sometimes disdained branch of comics creation, they are integral to the development of the North American comic book and the history of the medium. For the past half-century they have also been the one overwhelmingly dominant market genre. The sheer volume of superhero comics that have been published over the years is staggering. Major superhero universes constitute one of the most expansive storytelling canvases ever fashioned. Moreover, characters inhabiting these fictional universes are immensely influential, having achieved iconic recognition around the globe. Their images and adventures have shaped many other media, such as film, videogames, and even prose fiction. The primary aim of this reader is twofold: first, to collect in a single volume a sampling of the most sophisticated commentary on superheroes, and second, to bring into sharper focus the ways in which superheroes connect with larger social, cultural, literary, aesthetic, and historical themes that are of interest to a great many readers both in the academy and beyond.

The Best American Comics 2014

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Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN 13 : 0544106008
Total Pages : 405 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (441 download)

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Book Synopsis The Best American Comics 2014 by : Scott McCloud

Download or read book The Best American Comics 2014 written by Scott McCloud and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2014 with total page 405 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An anthology of top-selected graphic pieces published in American periodicals in 2013 showcases the work of both established and up-and-coming contributors.

Bipolar #1

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ISBN 13 : 9781891867330
Total Pages : 36 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (673 download)

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Book Synopsis Bipolar #1 by : Tomer Hakuna

Download or read book Bipolar #1 written by Tomer Hakuna and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tomer and Asaf Hanuka are twins. They share a similar genetic structure but were raised in different places. This condition creates a special tension between their stories and styles and is the foundation of Bipolar. Asaf, with writer Etgar Keret is telling the story of Pizzeria Kamikaze about a guy with a broken heart who committed suicide only to find himself at Pizza Kamikaze, a regular day job in a world where everyone died before and now it's about passing time. Tomer is telling personal stories with a twisted time sense that will put you right now, a year ago, and in the future."Each edition has conducted readers on an excursion through curious enviroments, full of sights that conjoin the common and the disorienting and of situations that are at once both ordinary and unaccountable." ¿ The Comics JournalThe stories featured in this issue: (1) Tomer/ Time strips- this story examines the different identities we wear as our life evolves and the way these identities interact if they were to exist on one time line. (2) Asaf with writer Etgar Keret/ Pizzeria Kamikaze- about a guy with a broken heart who committed suicide only to find himself at Pizza Kamikaze, a regular day job in a world where everyone died before and now it's about passing time. (3) Tomer/ I Love You- how much of ourselves do we project onto others? By using two story lines the myth of relationships is explored under highly opposite environments.36 page black and white comic with color covers

Comic Book Culture

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ISBN 13 : 9781578062010
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (62 download)

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Book Synopsis Comic Book Culture by : Matthew Pustz

Download or read book Comic Book Culture written by Matthew Pustz and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A close inspection of comic book lovers and their ever-expanding culture