Author: Howard Chaykin
Publisher: Image Comics
ISBN:
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 32
Book Description
MINISERIES PREMIERE A generation of artists ashamed of their careers has come to this, scratching out a living entertaining children who wonder why anyone would want to do anything else. With the birth of the comics industry comes the afterbirth, a shadow twin that will sustain and occasionally sabotage it for generations to come… Fandom.
Hey Kids! Comics! Vol. 3: Schlock of The New #1
Author: Howard Chaykin
Publisher: Image Comics
ISBN:
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 32
Book Description
MINISERIES PREMIERE A generation of artists ashamed of their careers has come to this, scratching out a living entertaining children who wonder why anyone would want to do anything else. With the birth of the comics industry comes the afterbirth, a shadow twin that will sustain and occasionally sabotage it for generations to come… Fandom.
Publisher: Image Comics
ISBN:
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 32
Book Description
MINISERIES PREMIERE A generation of artists ashamed of their careers has come to this, scratching out a living entertaining children who wonder why anyone would want to do anything else. With the birth of the comics industry comes the afterbirth, a shadow twin that will sustain and occasionally sabotage it for generations to come… Fandom.
Hey Kids! Comics!
Author: Howard Chaykin
Publisher: Image Comics
ISBN: 1534313788
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 164
Book Description
HEY KIDS! COMICS! takes its cue from nearly a century of turbulence and triumph, despair and drama in the comics racket. Artists and writers, con men and clowns, ganefs and gangsters create the foundations of today's biggest entertainment businessÑor at least the tail that wags the dog. Some of it really happened, and the names have been changed to protect the innocent and guilty Éalthough in the end, everyone was guilty of something. Collects HEY KIDS! COMICS! #1-5
Publisher: Image Comics
ISBN: 1534313788
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 164
Book Description
HEY KIDS! COMICS! takes its cue from nearly a century of turbulence and triumph, despair and drama in the comics racket. Artists and writers, con men and clowns, ganefs and gangsters create the foundations of today's biggest entertainment businessÑor at least the tail that wags the dog. Some of it really happened, and the names have been changed to protect the innocent and guilty Éalthough in the end, everyone was guilty of something. Collects HEY KIDS! COMICS! #1-5
Hey Kids! Comics! Vol. 3: The Schlock Of The New #6 (Of 6)
Author: Howard Chaykin
Publisher: Image Comics
ISBN:
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 32
Book Description
MINISERIES FINALE Who lives? Who dies? Whose (frequently doubled) voucher gets lost in the mail?HOWARD CHAYKIN’s three-volume journey through comic book history concludes with one last look at how fandom—joyful, toxic, proprietary, take your pick—paradigm shifted from captive audience to creative architect in no time flat.And sure, some of it didn’t happen. But it’s all true.
Publisher: Image Comics
ISBN:
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 32
Book Description
MINISERIES FINALE Who lives? Who dies? Whose (frequently doubled) voucher gets lost in the mail?HOWARD CHAYKIN’s three-volume journey through comic book history concludes with one last look at how fandom—joyful, toxic, proprietary, take your pick—paradigm shifted from captive audience to creative architect in no time flat.And sure, some of it didn’t happen. But it’s all true.
Hey Kids! Comics! #5 (Of 5)
Author: Howard Chaykin
Publisher: Image Comics
ISBN:
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 32
Book Description
The innocent seduced and the credulous corrupted. Stories inspired by the way it really was, in a business where con men and liars stole everything they could from perfectly willing victims, selling second-rate stories of low-grade morality to an audience they saw as suckers, while living lives founded on greed and exploitation. And that, kids, is comics for you.
Publisher: Image Comics
ISBN:
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 32
Book Description
The innocent seduced and the credulous corrupted. Stories inspired by the way it really was, in a business where con men and liars stole everything they could from perfectly willing victims, selling second-rate stories of low-grade morality to an audience they saw as suckers, while living lives founded on greed and exploitation. And that, kids, is comics for you.
Hey Kids! Comics! Vol. 3: Schlock of The New #2
Author: Howard Chaykin
Publisher: Image Comics
ISBN:
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 32
Book Description
With the soon-to-be self-styled greatest generation grudgingly called to war, it’s high time for those back on the home front to step up and fill in for the fighting men overseas. But when the work needs writers and artists, and the only bodies available are unambitious halfwit hacks and talentless, overeager fans…will this be what kills the comic book cash cow?
Publisher: Image Comics
ISBN:
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 32
Book Description
With the soon-to-be self-styled greatest generation grudgingly called to war, it’s high time for those back on the home front to step up and fill in for the fighting men overseas. But when the work needs writers and artists, and the only bodies available are unambitious halfwit hacks and talentless, overeager fans…will this be what kills the comic book cash cow?
Hey Kids! Comics!: Prophets & Loss, Vol. 3
Author: Howard Chaykin
Publisher: Image Comics
ISBN: 153435364X
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 196
Book Description
It all begins with a generation of artists who view their life’s work as dismal failures and a waste of that life…in service to a medium that refuses to die, grinding its way through generation after generation…until it collides with creatives who can’t even begin to imagine why anyone would ever want to do anything else. This is the history of comic books, alongside the misbegotten midwife whose growth, whose refusal to truly grow, serves as its decades-long and distorted mirror… Fandom. Collects HEY KIDS! COMICS!, VOL. 3: THE SCHLOCK OF THE NEW #1-6
Publisher: Image Comics
ISBN: 153435364X
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 196
Book Description
It all begins with a generation of artists who view their life’s work as dismal failures and a waste of that life…in service to a medium that refuses to die, grinding its way through generation after generation…until it collides with creatives who can’t even begin to imagine why anyone would ever want to do anything else. This is the history of comic books, alongside the misbegotten midwife whose growth, whose refusal to truly grow, serves as its decades-long and distorted mirror… Fandom. Collects HEY KIDS! COMICS!, VOL. 3: THE SCHLOCK OF THE NEW #1-6
Hey Kids! Comics! Vol. 3: Schlock Of The New #5 (Of 6)
Author: Howard Chaykin
Publisher: Image Comics
ISBN:
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 32
Book Description
The 1980s births a completely unanticipated commercial and artistic renaissance… …but Editorial has notes. And fans who only yesterday were sneaking time on the school office mimeograph become today’s commercial comic book darlings. WTF?
Publisher: Image Comics
ISBN:
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 32
Book Description
The 1980s births a completely unanticipated commercial and artistic renaissance… …but Editorial has notes. And fans who only yesterday were sneaking time on the school office mimeograph become today’s commercial comic book darlings. WTF?
Hey Kids! Comics! Vol. II: Prophets & Loss #5 (of 6)
Author: Howard Chaykin
Publisher: Image Comics
ISBN:
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 32
Book Description
New blood makes waves on and off the page, as acknowledged giants learn just how worthless that acknowledgment is. And don't worry about management. They've still got plenty of screwing over talent to keep them busy.
Publisher: Image Comics
ISBN:
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 32
Book Description
New blood makes waves on and off the page, as acknowledged giants learn just how worthless that acknowledgment is. And don't worry about management. They've still got plenty of screwing over talent to keep them busy.
ShortPacked!: ShortPacked! brings back the eighties
Author: David M. Willis
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780979674303
Category : Toy stores
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Shortpacked! is a webcomic by Willis set in a toy store.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780979674303
Category : Toy stores
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Shortpacked! is a webcomic by Willis set in a toy store.
The Seeds
Author: Ann Nocenti
Publisher: Dark Horse Comics
ISBN: 1506705898
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 132
Book Description
The hotly-anticipated eco-fiction tech thriller-meets-love-story from the award-winning, visionary team of Ann Nocenti (Daredevil, Ruby Falls) and David Aja (Hawkeye, Immortal Iron Fist)! The bees are swarming. What do they know that we don't? In a broken-down world, a rebellious group of ruthless romantics have fled a tech-obsessed society to create their own...and a few cantankerous aliens have come to harvest the last seeds of humanity. When one of them falls in love with a human, idealistic journalist Astra stumbles into the story of a lifetime, only to realize that if she reports it, she'll destroy the last hope of a dying planet. How far will she go for the truth? Collects The Seeds #1-#4. "The perfect book for these deeply imperfect times." -- Matt Fraction "Beautifully drawn, cleverly constructed and very satisfying." -- Frank Quitely
Publisher: Dark Horse Comics
ISBN: 1506705898
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 132
Book Description
The hotly-anticipated eco-fiction tech thriller-meets-love-story from the award-winning, visionary team of Ann Nocenti (Daredevil, Ruby Falls) and David Aja (Hawkeye, Immortal Iron Fist)! The bees are swarming. What do they know that we don't? In a broken-down world, a rebellious group of ruthless romantics have fled a tech-obsessed society to create their own...and a few cantankerous aliens have come to harvest the last seeds of humanity. When one of them falls in love with a human, idealistic journalist Astra stumbles into the story of a lifetime, only to realize that if she reports it, she'll destroy the last hope of a dying planet. How far will she go for the truth? Collects The Seeds #1-#4. "The perfect book for these deeply imperfect times." -- Matt Fraction "Beautifully drawn, cleverly constructed and very satisfying." -- Frank Quitely