Author: Frederick Luis Aldama
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351015257
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 555
Book Description
Comics Studies Here and Now marks the arrival of comics studies scholarship that no longer feels the need to justify itself within or against other fields of study. The essays herein move us forward, some in their re-diggings into comics history and others by analyzing comics—and all its transmedial and fan-fictional offshoots—on its own terms. Comics Studies stakes the flag of our arrival—the arrival of comics studies as a full-fledged discipline that today and tomorrow excavates, examines, discusses, and analyzes all aspects that make up the resplendent planetary republic of comics. This collection of scholarly essays is a testament to the fact that comic book studies have come into their own as an academic discipline; simply and powerfully moving comic studies forward with their critical excavations and theoretical formulas based on the common sense understanding that comics add to the world as unique, transformative cultural phenomena.
The Kat who Walked in Beauty
Author: George Herriman
Publisher: Fantagraphics Books
ISBN: 9781560978541
Category : American wit and humor, Pictorial
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
A collection of "Krazy Kat" comic strips published in American daily newspapers during the 1920s.
Publisher: Fantagraphics Books
ISBN: 9781560978541
Category : American wit and humor, Pictorial
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
A collection of "Krazy Kat" comic strips published in American daily newspapers during the 1920s.
Krazy and Ignatz
Author: George Herriman
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781560973867
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 124
Book Description
A series of comic strips by George Herriman which feature the adventures of Krazy and Ignatz.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781560973867
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 124
Book Description
A series of comic strips by George Herriman which feature the adventures of Krazy and Ignatz.
Krazy
Author: Michael Tisserand
Publisher: HarperCollins
ISBN: 0062098055
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 721
Book Description
In the tradition of Schulz and Peanuts, an epic and revelatory biography of Krazy Kat creator George Herriman that explores the turbulent time and place from which he emerged—and the deep secret he explored through his art. The creator of the greatest comic strip in history finally gets his due—in an eye-opening biography that lays bare the truth about his art, his heritage, and his life on America’s color line. A native of nineteenth-century New Orleans, George Herriman came of age as an illustrator, journalist, and cartoonist in the boomtown of Los Angeles and the wild metropolis of New York. Appearing in the biggest newspapers of the early twentieth century—including those owned by William Randolph Hearst—Herriman’s Krazy Kat cartoons quickly propelled him to fame. Although fitfully popular with readers of the period, his work has been widely credited with elevating cartoons from daily amusements to anarchic art. Herriman used his work to explore the human condition, creating a modernist fantasia that was inspired by the landscapes he discovered in his travels—from chaotic urban life to the Beckett-like desert vistas of the Southwest. Yet underlying his own life—and often emerging from the contours of his very public art—was a very private secret: known as "the Greek" for his swarthy complexion and curly hair, Herriman was actually African American, born to a prominent Creole family that hid its racial identity in the dangerous days of Reconstruction. Drawing on exhaustive original research into Herriman’s family history, interviews with surviving friends and family, and deep analysis of the artist’s work and surviving written records, Michael Tisserand brings this little-understood figure to vivid life, paying homage to a visionary artist who helped shape modern culture.
Publisher: HarperCollins
ISBN: 0062098055
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 721
Book Description
In the tradition of Schulz and Peanuts, an epic and revelatory biography of Krazy Kat creator George Herriman that explores the turbulent time and place from which he emerged—and the deep secret he explored through his art. The creator of the greatest comic strip in history finally gets his due—in an eye-opening biography that lays bare the truth about his art, his heritage, and his life on America’s color line. A native of nineteenth-century New Orleans, George Herriman came of age as an illustrator, journalist, and cartoonist in the boomtown of Los Angeles and the wild metropolis of New York. Appearing in the biggest newspapers of the early twentieth century—including those owned by William Randolph Hearst—Herriman’s Krazy Kat cartoons quickly propelled him to fame. Although fitfully popular with readers of the period, his work has been widely credited with elevating cartoons from daily amusements to anarchic art. Herriman used his work to explore the human condition, creating a modernist fantasia that was inspired by the landscapes he discovered in his travels—from chaotic urban life to the Beckett-like desert vistas of the Southwest. Yet underlying his own life—and often emerging from the contours of his very public art—was a very private secret: known as "the Greek" for his swarthy complexion and curly hair, Herriman was actually African American, born to a prominent Creole family that hid its racial identity in the dangerous days of Reconstruction. Drawing on exhaustive original research into Herriman’s family history, interviews with surviving friends and family, and deep analysis of the artist’s work and surviving written records, Michael Tisserand brings this little-understood figure to vivid life, paying homage to a visionary artist who helped shape modern culture.
Comics Studies Here and Now
Author: Frederick Luis Aldama
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351015257
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 555
Book Description
Comics Studies Here and Now marks the arrival of comics studies scholarship that no longer feels the need to justify itself within or against other fields of study. The essays herein move us forward, some in their re-diggings into comics history and others by analyzing comics—and all its transmedial and fan-fictional offshoots—on its own terms. Comics Studies stakes the flag of our arrival—the arrival of comics studies as a full-fledged discipline that today and tomorrow excavates, examines, discusses, and analyzes all aspects that make up the resplendent planetary republic of comics. This collection of scholarly essays is a testament to the fact that comic book studies have come into their own as an academic discipline; simply and powerfully moving comic studies forward with their critical excavations and theoretical formulas based on the common sense understanding that comics add to the world as unique, transformative cultural phenomena.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351015257
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 555
Book Description
Comics Studies Here and Now marks the arrival of comics studies scholarship that no longer feels the need to justify itself within or against other fields of study. The essays herein move us forward, some in their re-diggings into comics history and others by analyzing comics—and all its transmedial and fan-fictional offshoots—on its own terms. Comics Studies stakes the flag of our arrival—the arrival of comics studies as a full-fledged discipline that today and tomorrow excavates, examines, discusses, and analyzes all aspects that make up the resplendent planetary republic of comics. This collection of scholarly essays is a testament to the fact that comic book studies have come into their own as an academic discipline; simply and powerfully moving comic studies forward with their critical excavations and theoretical formulas based on the common sense understanding that comics add to the world as unique, transformative cultural phenomena.
The Kat Bronsky Thrillers
Author: John J. Nance
Publisher: Open Road Media
ISBN: 1504047486
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 701
Book Description
Two novels by a New York Times–bestselling author who can “keep even the most experienced thriller addicts strapped into their seats for the whole flight” (People). Featuring FBI hostage negotiator Kat Bronsky, these are two stories of pilots, passengers, and planes in peril that move at supersonic speed. The Last Hostage: When airline pilot Ken Wolfe learns that the presumptive nominee for US attorney general is on his flight, his blood runs cold. Rudolph Bostich bungled the case after Wolfe’s daughter was kidnapped and killed—and let the perpetrator walk. Now Wolfe is prepared to do anything for revenge, including hijacking his own plane. It’s up to FBI agent, psychologist, and rookie hostage negotiator Kat Bronsky to solve the mystery of an eleven-year-old girl’s murder and save the lives of 130 terrified passengers. Blackout: A Boeing/McDonnell-Douglas MD-11 jetliner crashes into the Gulf of Mexico a mile inside Cuban waters, killing all onboard. The last three minutes on the plane’s cockpit voice and data recorders have been erased. Was it a massive mechanical failure or an act of terrorism? When another airliner goes down after its pilots are flash-blinded midflight, Kat Bronsky races from the jungles of Southeast Asia to the forests of the American Northwest to unmask the conspirators before the entire American airline industry comes crashing out of the sky.
Publisher: Open Road Media
ISBN: 1504047486
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 701
Book Description
Two novels by a New York Times–bestselling author who can “keep even the most experienced thriller addicts strapped into their seats for the whole flight” (People). Featuring FBI hostage negotiator Kat Bronsky, these are two stories of pilots, passengers, and planes in peril that move at supersonic speed. The Last Hostage: When airline pilot Ken Wolfe learns that the presumptive nominee for US attorney general is on his flight, his blood runs cold. Rudolph Bostich bungled the case after Wolfe’s daughter was kidnapped and killed—and let the perpetrator walk. Now Wolfe is prepared to do anything for revenge, including hijacking his own plane. It’s up to FBI agent, psychologist, and rookie hostage negotiator Kat Bronsky to solve the mystery of an eleven-year-old girl’s murder and save the lives of 130 terrified passengers. Blackout: A Boeing/McDonnell-Douglas MD-11 jetliner crashes into the Gulf of Mexico a mile inside Cuban waters, killing all onboard. The last three minutes on the plane’s cockpit voice and data recorders have been erased. Was it a massive mechanical failure or an act of terrorism? When another airliner goes down after its pilots are flash-blinded midflight, Kat Bronsky races from the jungles of Southeast Asia to the forests of the American Northwest to unmask the conspirators before the entire American airline industry comes crashing out of the sky.
The Comics Journal
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Comic books, strips, etc
Languages : en
Pages : 884
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Comic books, strips, etc
Languages : en
Pages : 884
Book Description
Stories from Elsewhere
Author: Jim Curtiss
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 0615212743
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 168
Book Description
A collection of fictional and non-fictional stories, inclduing excerpts from the novel Every Thing Counts (The Akashic Reader), where author brings together his wry observations of life among Czechs, the Dutch, the Germans, the Italians, the Polish and the Spanish.
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 0615212743
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 168
Book Description
A collection of fictional and non-fictional stories, inclduing excerpts from the novel Every Thing Counts (The Akashic Reader), where author brings together his wry observations of life among Czechs, the Dutch, the Germans, the Italians, the Polish and the Spanish.
Beauty Expos Are Murder
Author: Libby Klein
Publisher: Kensington Cozies
ISBN: 1496733169
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 368
Book Description
Gluten-free baker Poppy McAllister is about to see the ugly side of beauty expos . . . Easter weekend on the Jersey Shore is hopping. Poppy’s Bed and Breakfast is busier than ever, but she needs to leave things in the hopefully capable hands of Aunt Ginny—and paws of Figaro the black smoke Persian. She’s selling her paleo muffins and keto cookies at the Health and Beauty Expo in Cape May’s Convention Hall. Normally sharing a booth with the love of her life would be a treat, but she’s recently discovered secrets that throw her new romance into chaos. But more secrets are about to be exposed at the expo. In his keynote address, prominent cosmetic surgeon Dr. Lance Rubin reveals his breakthrough anti-aging technology. Unfortunately, someone has one-upped him with a truly foolproof anti-aging formula: murder. With the plastic surgeon dead under his own UV mask, and bedlam reigning in the hall and back at the B&B, Poppy needs to follow a twisted trail marked by glowing footprints to unmask a killer . . . Includes Seven Recipes from Poppy’s Kitchen! “Fans of Chopped will have fun juggling the complicated set of suspects and following a romantic triangle that has yet to be resolved.” —Kirkus Reviews on Restaurant Weeks Are Murder
Publisher: Kensington Cozies
ISBN: 1496733169
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 368
Book Description
Gluten-free baker Poppy McAllister is about to see the ugly side of beauty expos . . . Easter weekend on the Jersey Shore is hopping. Poppy’s Bed and Breakfast is busier than ever, but she needs to leave things in the hopefully capable hands of Aunt Ginny—and paws of Figaro the black smoke Persian. She’s selling her paleo muffins and keto cookies at the Health and Beauty Expo in Cape May’s Convention Hall. Normally sharing a booth with the love of her life would be a treat, but she’s recently discovered secrets that throw her new romance into chaos. But more secrets are about to be exposed at the expo. In his keynote address, prominent cosmetic surgeon Dr. Lance Rubin reveals his breakthrough anti-aging technology. Unfortunately, someone has one-upped him with a truly foolproof anti-aging formula: murder. With the plastic surgeon dead under his own UV mask, and bedlam reigning in the hall and back at the B&B, Poppy needs to follow a twisted trail marked by glowing footprints to unmask a killer . . . Includes Seven Recipes from Poppy’s Kitchen! “Fans of Chopped will have fun juggling the complicated set of suspects and following a romantic triangle that has yet to be resolved.” —Kirkus Reviews on Restaurant Weeks Are Murder
Chez Stinky
Author: Susan C. Daffron
Publisher: Logical Expressions, Inc.
ISBN: 1610380207
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
Kat Stevens is a slightly insecure, mostly bored technical writer who likes her cat a lot more than her boss. When she inherits her great aunt Abigail's house in the small town of Alpine Grove, Kat's life gets a lot more complicated because the inheritance comes with some hairy conditions: four dogs and five cats. After coping with out-of-control dogs, cat fights, dust dinosaurs, massive spiders and serious roof problems, things get even more interesting when Kat meets Joel, an unemployed techie type with an enigmatic past.
Publisher: Logical Expressions, Inc.
ISBN: 1610380207
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
Kat Stevens is a slightly insecure, mostly bored technical writer who likes her cat a lot more than her boss. When she inherits her great aunt Abigail's house in the small town of Alpine Grove, Kat's life gets a lot more complicated because the inheritance comes with some hairy conditions: four dogs and five cats. After coping with out-of-control dogs, cat fights, dust dinosaurs, massive spiders and serious roof problems, things get even more interesting when Kat meets Joel, an unemployed techie type with an enigmatic past.
Waiting to Risk It All
Author: Karen R. Curry
Publisher: AuthorHouse
ISBN: 1524688576
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 232
Book Description
Quinn Sinclair was a pretty-boy, successful singer that was also a single father. His wife died and he was left to raise their two young children. After being alone and without for a couple of years, he felt something was missing. When he saw beautiful, sexy, and full-of-attitude Madison Silvers, he knew she was the one. The problem was Maddi felt she didnt deserve him due to the secrets of her past. Throw in her violent ex-husband, murder attempts, and Quinns disapproving mother, the couple would soon find out if they were Waiting To Risk It All for each other. Doctor Alexx Cavanaugh, one of Maddis sister friends, was a Neonatal surgeon and happy with her life. She thought she was content until she met self-made billionaire Matthew McGuire. He asked her to marry him the day he met her! First, he had to convince her he wasnt a nut! He knew what he wanted and went after it. Add kidnapping and lying family members to their story and see if they were Waiting To Risk It All for each other also. The two couples meet danger head on and survive to tell their stories. Will their love survive as well?
Publisher: AuthorHouse
ISBN: 1524688576
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 232
Book Description
Quinn Sinclair was a pretty-boy, successful singer that was also a single father. His wife died and he was left to raise their two young children. After being alone and without for a couple of years, he felt something was missing. When he saw beautiful, sexy, and full-of-attitude Madison Silvers, he knew she was the one. The problem was Maddi felt she didnt deserve him due to the secrets of her past. Throw in her violent ex-husband, murder attempts, and Quinns disapproving mother, the couple would soon find out if they were Waiting To Risk It All for each other. Doctor Alexx Cavanaugh, one of Maddis sister friends, was a Neonatal surgeon and happy with her life. She thought she was content until she met self-made billionaire Matthew McGuire. He asked her to marry him the day he met her! First, he had to convince her he wasnt a nut! He knew what he wanted and went after it. Add kidnapping and lying family members to their story and see if they were Waiting To Risk It All for each other also. The two couples meet danger head on and survive to tell their stories. Will their love survive as well?