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Book Synopsis The Adventures of Jodelle by : Guy Peellaert
Download or read book The Adventures of Jodelle written by Guy Peellaert and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Pop Art classic from the 1960s, The Adventures of Jodelle (written by Pierre Bartier) is a very early adult graphic novel from the legendary French comics publisher Eric Losfeld. The Adventures of Jodelle is a satirical spy adventure set in an Asterix-style anachronistic Cesarepoch fantasy Rome featuring both billboards and vampires. It melds the bold compositional skills of a top pop-art-era draftsman with a unique sensitivity to the comics medium, and was published in English in 1967 by Grove Press, whose epic editor-in-chief Richard Seaver also provided the translation.
Book Synopsis When the Rain Comes by : Jodelle Yount
Download or read book When the Rain Comes written by Jodelle Yount and published by Yount Press. This book was released on 2022-01-27 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book follows the life of Jaz, an Emergency Medicine physician who experienced an atrocious trauma after witnessing the brutal murder of her sister. This resulted in her becoming a vigilante named Rain who hunts sex traffickers and became a champion for enslaved women and children. The book gives an inside look into what our heroine is thinking and feeling as she balances relationships such as when she meets the quirky and intuitive Freya, and friendships specifically with the intelligent and charming local detective Jack. This first book in the series follows the main character as she chases down a notoriously dangerous villain, Cain, who exploits and abuses women while maintaining a very clean public persona as the owner of a professional basketball team. You will not be able to put the story down. Full of twists and turns, action-packed, and some sexiness weaved in. You will be begging for more of Rain’s adventures!
Book Synopsis The Adventures of Sweet Gwendoline by : John Willie
Download or read book The Adventures of Sweet Gwendoline written by John Willie and published by Kitchen Sink Press. This book was released on 1996-08-01 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Die Wergelder written by Hiroaki Samura and published by Kodansha Comics. This book was released on 2015-12-29 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wergelder: In Germanic law, the money paid by a murderer or his family to the victim's family in atonement. A mysterious deal goes down on a remote island known as a red light pleasure district. An insane fight between a blonde sniper and an assassin in a Chinese dress brings up questions about who the players are in this deal.
Download or read book Tideland written by Mitch Cullin and published by Dufour Editions. This book was released on 2006-01-31 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A look at the world through the eyes of a wildly imaginative young girl in contemporary Texas.
Download or read book When Magoo Flew written by Adam Abraham and published by Wesleyan University Press. This book was released on 2012-03-09 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What do Franklin Roosevelt, Dr. Seuss, the U.S. Navy, and Mr. Magoo have in common? They are all part of the surprising story of the pioneering cartoon studio UPA (United Productions of America). Throughout the 1950s, a group of artists ran a business that broke all the rules, pushing animated films beyond the fluffy fantasy of the Walt Disney Studio and the crash-bang anarchy of Warner Bros. Instead, UPA’s films were innovative and graphically bold—the cartoon equivalent to modern art. When Magoo Flew is the first book-length study to chronicle the complete story of this unique American enterprise. The book features cameo appearances by Aldous Huxley, James Thurber, Orson Welles, Judy Garland, Robert Goulet, Jim Backus, Eddie Albert, and Woody Allen, as well as a select filmography of the best of UPA. Ebook Edition Note: The ebook has three images redacted: figures 1, 2, and 51.
Download or read book Barbarella written by Jean-Claude Forest and published by Humanoids, Incorporated. This book was released on 2020-06-30 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jean-Claude Forest’s timeless Erotic Sci-Fi series recounting the spatial adventures of the the firece warrior Barbarella now collected in a brand new English-language adaptation by Kelly-Sue DeConnick. Barbarella’s spaceship breaks down, she finds herself trapped on the planet Lythion. There, she has a series of adventurous, and bawdy, encounters with a variety of strange beings, from robots to angels. Featuring a brand new, contemporary English-language adaptation by writer Kelly Sue DeConnick (Marvel’s "Captain Marvel," "Avengers Assemble," Dark Horse’s "Ghost," Image’s "Pretty Deadly")
Book Synopsis The Cambridge Companion to the Graphic Novel by : Stephen E. Tabachnick
Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to the Graphic Novel written by Stephen E. Tabachnick and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2017-07-03 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Companion examines the evolution of comic books into graphic novels and the development of this art form globally.
Book Synopsis The Cambridge History of the Graphic Novel by : Jan Baetens
Download or read book The Cambridge History of the Graphic Novel written by Jan Baetens and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2018-07-19 with total page 1315 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Cambridge History of the Graphic Novel provides the complete history of the graphic novel from its origins in the nineteenth century to its rise and startling success in the twentieth and twenty-first century. It includes original discussion on the current state of the graphic novel and analyzes how American, European, Middle Eastern, and Japanese renditions have shaped the field. Thirty-five leading scholars and historians unpack both forgotten trajectories as well as the famous key episodes, and explain how comics transitioned from being marketed as children's entertainment. Essays address the masters of the form, including Art Spiegelman, Alan Moore, and Marjane Satrapi, and reflect on their publishing history as well as their social and political effects. This ambitious history offers an extensive, detailed and expansive scholarly account of the graphic novel, and will be a key resource for scholars and students.
Download or read book Inner City Romance written by Guy Colwell and published by Fantagraphics Books. This book was released on 2015-02-22 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Guy Colwell’s 1970s underground comic book series Inner City Romance tread new territory: it was filled with stories about prison, black culture, ghetto life, the sex trade, and radical activism. It portrayed the unpleasant realities of life in the inner city, where opportunities were limited and being on the lowest end of the economic ladder meant that one’s vision of the American dream was more about survival than lifestyle choices. Every issue of Inner City Romance is included in this collection, as well as many of the highly detailed paintings Colwell created at the time. In an accompanying text piece, Colwell provides context for the material.
Book Synopsis The Cambridge Companion to Comics by : Maaheen Ahmed
Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to Comics written by Maaheen Ahmed and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2023-07-31 with total page 411 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Cambridge Companion to Comics presents comics as a multifaceted prism, generating productive and insightful dialogues with the most salient issues concerning the humanities at large. This volume provides readers with the histories and theories necessary for studying comics. It consists of three sections: Forms maps the most significant comics forms, including material formats and techniques. Readings brings together a selection of tools to equip readers with a critical understanding of comics. Uses examines the roles accorded to comics in museums, galleries, and education. Chapters explore comics through several key aspects, including drawing, serialities, adaptation, transmedia storytelling, issues of stereotyping and representation, and the lives of comics in institutional and social settings. This volume emphasizes the relationship between comics and other media and modes of expression. It offers close readings of vital works, covering more than a century of comics production and extending across visual, literary and cultural disciplines.
Book Synopsis Graphic Novels by : D. Aviva Rothschild
Download or read book Graphic Novels written by D. Aviva Rothschild and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 1995-04-15 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first of its kind, this annotated guide describes and evaluates more than 400 works in English. Rothschild's lively annotations discuss important features of each work-including the quality of the graphics, characterizations, dialogue, and the appropriate audience-and introduces mainstream readers to the variety and quality of graphic novels, helps them distinguish between classics and hackwork, and alerts experienced readers to material they may not have discovered. Designed for individuals who need information about graphic novels and for those interested in acquiring them, this book will especially appeal to librarians, booksellers, bookstore owners, educators working with teen and reluctant readers, as well as to readers interested in this genre.
Book Synopsis Don't Go Where I Can't Follow by : Anders Nilsen
Download or read book Don't Go Where I Can't Follow written by Anders Nilsen and published by Drawn & Quarterly. This book was released on 2020-10-20 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A STORY OF LOVE AND LOSS INSCRIBED IN PHOTOGRAPHS, POSTCARDS, LETTERS, AND BEDSIDE SKETCHES In this collection of letters, drawings, and photos, Anders Nilsen chronicles a six-year relationship and the illness that brought it to an end. Don’t Go Where I Can’t Follow is an eloquent appreciation of the time the author shared with his fiancée, Cheryl Weaver. The story is told using artifacts of the couple’s life together, including early love notes, simple and poetic postcards, tales of their travels in written and comics form, journal entries, and drawings done in the hospital in her final days. It concludes with a beautifully rendered account of Weaver’s memorial that Glen David Gold, writing in the Los Angeles Times, called “16 panels of beauty and grace.” Don’t Go Where I Can’t Follow is a deeply personal romance, and a universal reminder of our mortality and the significance of the relationships we build. Originally published as a limited edition in 2006, this collection includes a new afterword written by Nilsen.
Book Synopsis Incidents in the Night Book 2 by : David B.
Download or read book Incidents in the Night Book 2 written by David B. and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The highly anticipated continuation of the first volume of Incidents in the Night.
Book Synopsis The Someday Funnies by : Michel Choquette
Download or read book The Someday Funnies written by Michel Choquette and published by Harry N. Abrams. This book was released on 2011-11-01 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents a collection of 129 never-before-published comics about the 1960s by 169 writers and artists, including Renâe Goscinny, Jack Kirby, Harvey Kurtzman, Art Spiegelman, and Gahan Wilson.
Book Synopsis The Adventures of Phoebe Zeit-Geist by : Michael O'Donoghue
Download or read book The Adventures of Phoebe Zeit-Geist written by Michael O'Donoghue and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A collection of adult fantasy comic strips first serialized in The Evergreen Review. The satirical comics presented the adventures of debutante Phoebe Zeit-Geist as she was variously kidnapped and rescued by a series of bizarre characters, such as Nazis, Chinese foot fetishists, and lesbian assassins." --Amazon.com
Book Synopsis 1001 Comics You Must Read Before You Die by : Paul Gravett
Download or read book 1001 Comics You Must Read Before You Die written by Paul Gravett and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2011-10-25 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Visually amazing, this critical history of comic books, manga, and graphic novels is a must-have for any comic buff or collector. Over the centuries, comic books and their offshoots, such as graphic novels, manga, and bandes dessinées, have evolved into a phenomenally popular, influential, and unique art form with which we can express our opinions, our fantasies, our nightmares, and our dreams. In short: comics are emphatically no longer just for kids. This diverse, constantly evolving medium is truly coming into its own in the 21st century, from Hollywood's blockbuster adaptations of super-powered caped crusaders to the global spread of Japan's manga and its spinoffs, and from award-winning graphic novels such as Maus and Persepolis to new forms such as online webcomix. This volume is the perfect introduction to a dynamic and globally popular medium, embracing every graphic genre worldwide to assess the very best works of sequential art, graphic literature, comics, and comic strips, past and present. An international survey, this engaging volume is organized according to the year of first publication in the country of origin. An opening section acknowledges pioneering pre-1900 masterpieces, followed by sections divided by decade, creating a fascinating year-by-year chronicle of the graphic medium worldwide. The material includes the very earliest one-off albums to the latest in online comics and features some series and characters that have run for decades. Packed with fantastic reproductions of classic front covers and groundbreaking panels, this book is visually stunning as well as a trove of information--perfect for the passionate collector and casual fan alike.
