Heroes of the Comics - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Heroes of the Comics write by Drew Friedman. This book was released on 2014-09-10. Heroes of the Comics available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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 Comic Book Heroes
The Comic Book Heroes - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Comic Book Heroes write by Will Jacobs. This book was released on 1985. The Comic Book Heroes available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The first history of modern costumed-hero comic books, from the start of the Silver Age in 1956 up to today. Focusing on DC and Marvel Comics, the story begins with the efforts of DC to revitalize such Golden Age heroes as the Flash, Superman, and Green Lantern in the wake of the anti-comic furor of the early 1950s. The authors cover the science fiction rage of the late 1950s, the birth of the experimental Marvel Comics Group in 1961, the emergence of such classic Marvel characters as the Fantastic Four and Spider-Man, the "camp" craze set off by the "Batman" TV show in 1966, and the socially conscious and politically relevant comics of the early 1970s. Later chapters describe the slump of the mid-1970s, as the medium lost touch with its young readers, followed by the comics' resurgence of the 1980s, as many new companies help DC and Marvel to extend the boundaries of the field with innovation, daring, and a new sophistication. Factually thorough and written in a lively, narrative style, this history includes behind-the-scenes glimpses at the men who wrote, drew, and published the comics, the impact of their creations on the fans, and critical assessments of the works themselves. Illustrated throughout with examples of comic book art, The Comic Book Heroes will inform and entertain both the hardcore fan and the casual reader of this most popular of American mediums.
Supermen!
Supermen! - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Supermen! write by Greg Sadowski. This book was released on 2009-04-20. Supermen! available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The enduring cultural phenomenon of comic book heroes was invented in the late 1930s by a talented and hungry group of artists and writers barely out of their teens, flying by the seat of their pants to create something new, exciting, and above all profitable. The iconography and mythology they created flourishes to this day in comic books, video, movies, fine art, advertising, and practically all other media. Supermen! collects the best and the brightest of this first generation, including Jack Cole, Will Eisner, Bill Everett, Lou Fine, Fletcher Hanks, Jack Kirby, Jerry Siegel, Joe Shuster, and Basil Wolverton.
Heroes
Heroes - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Heroes write by Christopher Shea. This book was released on 1995. Heroes available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Profiles of fourteen X-men characters.
Heroes of the Comics
Heroes of the Comics - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Heroes of the Comics write by Drew Friedman. This book was released on 2014. Heroes of the Comics available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Friedman features portraits of the pioneering legends of American comic books. Each drawing is accompanied by a one-page synopsis of their life and work.
