Comic Books Incorporated
Title | Comic Books Incorporated PDF eBook |
Author | Shawna Kidman |
Publisher | University of California Press |
Total Pages | 328 |
Release | 2019-04-30 |
Genre | Performing Arts |
ISBN | 0520297555 |
Comic Books Incorporated tells the story of the US comic book business, reframing the history of the medium through an industrial and transmedial lens. Comic books wielded their influence from the margins and in-between spaces of the entertainment business for half a century before moving to the center of mainstream film and television production. This extraordinary history begins at the medium’s origin in the 1930s, when comics were a reviled, disorganized, and lowbrow mass medium, and surveys critical moments along the way—market crashes, corporate takeovers, upheavals in distribution, and financial transformations. Shawna Kidman concludes this revisionist history in the early 2000s, when Hollywood had fully incorporated comic book properties and strategies into its business models and transformed the medium into the heavily exploited, exceedingly corporate, and yet highly esteemed niche art form we know so well today.
Comic Books Incorporated
Title | Comic Books Incorporated PDF eBook |
Author | Shawna Kidman |
Publisher | Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | 328 |
Release | 2019-04-30 |
Genre | Performing Arts |
ISBN | 0520969863 |
Comic Books Incorporated tells the story of the US comic book business, reframing the history of the medium through an industrial and transmedial lens. Comic books wielded their influence from the margins and in-between spaces of the entertainment business for half a century before moving to the center of mainstream film and television production. This extraordinary history begins at the medium’s origin in the 1930s, when comics were a reviled, disorganized, and lowbrow mass medium, and surveys critical moments along the way—market crashes, corporate takeovers, upheavals in distribution, and financial transformations. Shawna Kidman concludes this revisionist history in the early 2000s, when Hollywood had fully incorporated comic book properties and strategies into its business models and transformed the medium into the heavily exploited, exceedingly corporate, and yet highly esteemed niche art form we know so well today.
Great American Comic Books
Title | Great American Comic Books PDF eBook |
Author | Ron Goulart |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 352 |
Release | 2001 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 9780785355908 |
Comic Book Culture
Title | Comic Book Culture PDF eBook |
Author | Ron Goulart |
Publisher | Collectors Press, Inc. |
Total Pages | 216 |
Release | 2000 |
Genre | Comic book covers |
ISBN | 1888054387 |
A history of American comic books told almost entirely through reprinted comic book covers.
Comic Books as History
Title | Comic Books as History PDF eBook |
Author | Joseph Witek |
Publisher | Univ. Press of Mississippi |
Total Pages | 188 |
Release | 1989 |
Genre | Antiques & Collectibles |
ISBN | 9780878054060 |
This first full-length scholarly study of comic books as a narrative form attempts to explain why comic books, traditionally considered to be juvenile trash literature, have in the 1980s been used by serious artists to tell realistic stories for adults
Nelson Mandela
Title | Nelson Mandela PDF eBook |
Author | The Nelson Mandela Foundation |
Publisher | WW Norton |
Total Pages | 210 |
Release | 2009-06-23 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 9780393070828 |
The fantastic, heroic life of Nelson Mandela, brought to life in this landmark graphic work. Nelson Mandela’s memoir, Long Road to Freedom, electrified the world in 1994 with the story of a solitary man who, despite unbelievable hardships, brought down one of the most-despised regimes in the world. Fifteen years after the publication of that classic work comes this fully authorized graphic biography, which relays in picture form the life story of the world’s greatest moral and political hero—from his boyhood in a small South African village to his growing political activism with the ANC, his twenty-seven-year incarceration as prisoner 46664 on Robben Island, his dramatic release, and his triumphant years as president of South Africa. With new interviews, firsthand accounts, and archival material that has only recently been uncovered, this visually dramatic biography promises to introduce Mandela’s gripping story to a whole new generation of readers.
A Complete History of American Comic Books
Title | A Complete History of American Comic Books PDF eBook |
Author | Shirrel Rhoades |
Publisher | Peter Lang |
Total Pages | 370 |
Release | 2008 |
Genre | Art |
ISBN | 9781433101076 |
This book is an updated history of the American comic book by an industry insider. You'll follow the development of comics from the first appearance of the comic book format in the Platinum Age of the 1930s to the creation of the superhero genre in the Golden Age, to the current period, where comics flourish as graphic novels and blockbuster movies. Along the way you will meet the hustlers, hucksters, hacks, and visionaries who made the American comic book what it is today. It's an exciting journey, filled with mutants, changelings, atomized scientists, gamma-ray accidents, and supernaturally empowered heroes and villains who challenge the imagination and spark the secret identities lurking within us.