Author: Alisa Kwitney
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 200
Book Description
"A selection of cover, trading card, and gallery art from DC Comics' Vertigo imprint, Vertigo Visions showcases the work of seventy-five major artists whose illustrations bring the concepts and storylines of the Vertigo writers to life." "Collectively, the pieces in Vertigo Visions convey a truly astonishing range, in both subject matter and technique: images of surpassing loveliness alongside nightmarish visions of the macabre and grotesque; lighthearted takes on familiar characters next to phantasmagorical landscapes from unnamable worlds; impressionistic watercolors, classical oils, and complex collages; delicate line drawings, stencil art, and sophisticated computer-manipulated creations."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved
Vertigo Visions
Author: Alisa Kwitney
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 200
Book Description
"A selection of cover, trading card, and gallery art from DC Comics' Vertigo imprint, Vertigo Visions showcases the work of seventy-five major artists whose illustrations bring the concepts and storylines of the Vertigo writers to life." "Collectively, the pieces in Vertigo Visions convey a truly astonishing range, in both subject matter and technique: images of surpassing loveliness alongside nightmarish visions of the macabre and grotesque; lighthearted takes on familiar characters next to phantasmagorical landscapes from unnamable worlds; impressionistic watercolors, classical oils, and complex collages; delicate line drawings, stencil art, and sophisticated computer-manipulated creations."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 200
Book Description
"A selection of cover, trading card, and gallery art from DC Comics' Vertigo imprint, Vertigo Visions showcases the work of seventy-five major artists whose illustrations bring the concepts and storylines of the Vertigo writers to life." "Collectively, the pieces in Vertigo Visions convey a truly astonishing range, in both subject matter and technique: images of surpassing loveliness alongside nightmarish visions of the macabre and grotesque; lighthearted takes on familiar characters next to phantasmagorical landscapes from unnamable worlds; impressionistic watercolors, classical oils, and complex collages; delicate line drawings, stencil art, and sophisticated computer-manipulated creations."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved
Vertigo Visions: The Geek (1993) #1
Author: Rachel Pollack
Publisher: Vertigo
ISBN:
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 58
Book Description
Fighting against corruption and greed, Brother Power, a.k.a. the Geek, stands for peace, love and universal harmony. But slowly, the Geek descends into everything he had so adamantly stood against. On the path to redemption, the Geek must reclaim his lost innocence while battling the diabolical Dr. Cull and his agents of corruption.
Publisher: Vertigo
ISBN:
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 58
Book Description
Fighting against corruption and greed, Brother Power, a.k.a. the Geek, stands for peace, love and universal harmony. But slowly, the Geek descends into everything he had so adamantly stood against. On the path to redemption, the Geek must reclaim his lost innocence while battling the diabolical Dr. Cull and his agents of corruption.
Vertigo Visions - Doctor Occult (1994-) #1
Author: Dave Louapre
Publisher: Vertigo
ISBN:
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 60
Book Description
Appearing for the first time since his revival in THE BOOKS OF MAGIC miniseries, Doctor Occult faces his greatest challenge when his male and female aspects begin to radically interchange. The driving force appears to be his/her repressed sexuality fighting its way to the surface under the influence of Koth, Occult's oldest enemy. Koth's goal is to separate Occult from his female aspect, leading to a desperate quest in which Occult must reconcile his duality - or be obliterated.
Publisher: Vertigo
ISBN:
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 60
Book Description
Appearing for the first time since his revival in THE BOOKS OF MAGIC miniseries, Doctor Occult faces his greatest challenge when his male and female aspects begin to radically interchange. The driving force appears to be his/her repressed sexuality fighting its way to the surface under the influence of Koth, Occult's oldest enemy. Koth's goal is to separate Occult from his female aspect, leading to a desperate quest in which Occult must reconcile his duality - or be obliterated.
Horizontal Vertigo
Author: Juan Villoro
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 1524748897
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 369
Book Description
At once intimate and wide-ranging, and as enthralling, surprising, and vivid as the place itself, this is a uniquely eye-opening tour of one of the great metropolises of the world, and its largest Spanish-speaking city. Horizontal Vertigo: The title refers to the fear of ever-impending earthquakes that led Mexicans to build their capital city outward rather than upward. With the perspicacity of a keenly observant flaneur, Juan Villoro wanders through Mexico City seemingly without a plan, describing people, places, and things while brilliantly drawing connections among them. In so doing he reveals, in all its multitudinous glory, the vicissitudes and triumphs of the city ’s cultural, political, and social history: from indigenous antiquity to the Aztec period, from the Spanish conquest to Mexico City today—one of the world’s leading cultural and financial centers. In this deeply iconoclastic book, Villoro organizes his text around a recurring series of topics: “Living in the City,” “City Characters,” “Shocks,” “Crossings,” and “Ceremonies.” What he achieves, miraculously, is a stunning, intriguingly coherent meditation on Mexico City’s genius loci, its spirit of place.
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 1524748897
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 369
Book Description
At once intimate and wide-ranging, and as enthralling, surprising, and vivid as the place itself, this is a uniquely eye-opening tour of one of the great metropolises of the world, and its largest Spanish-speaking city. Horizontal Vertigo: The title refers to the fear of ever-impending earthquakes that led Mexicans to build their capital city outward rather than upward. With the perspicacity of a keenly observant flaneur, Juan Villoro wanders through Mexico City seemingly without a plan, describing people, places, and things while brilliantly drawing connections among them. In so doing he reveals, in all its multitudinous glory, the vicissitudes and triumphs of the city ’s cultural, political, and social history: from indigenous antiquity to the Aztec period, from the Spanish conquest to Mexico City today—one of the world’s leading cultural and financial centers. In this deeply iconoclastic book, Villoro organizes his text around a recurring series of topics: “Living in the City,” “City Characters,” “Shocks,” “Crossings,” and “Ceremonies.” What he achieves, miraculously, is a stunning, intriguingly coherent meditation on Mexico City’s genius loci, its spirit of place.
Vertigo Visions - The Phantom Stranger (1993-) #1
Author: Alisa Kwitney
Publisher: Vertigo
ISBN:
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 58
Book Description
Old age can be its own kind of hell--just ask the tormented residents of the Paradise Gardens Retirement Home. Loneliness can be worse than purgatory-- just ask Naomi, a young woman working her first night shift at the home. But all that is about to change, because tonight is the night Naomi is going to meet a Stranger.
Publisher: Vertigo
ISBN:
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 58
Book Description
Old age can be its own kind of hell--just ask the tormented residents of the Paradise Gardens Retirement Home. Loneliness can be worse than purgatory-- just ask Naomi, a young woman working her first night shift at the home. But all that is about to change, because tonight is the night Naomi is going to meet a Stranger.
Vertigo
Author: Louise A. DeSalvo
Publisher: Feminist Press at CUNY
ISBN: 9781558613959
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 308
Book Description
Born to immigrant parents during World War II and coming of age during the 1950s, DeSalvo finds herself rebelling against a script written by parental and societal expectations. In her revealing family memoir, DeSalvo sifts through painful memories to give voice to all that remained unspoken and unresolved in her life: a mother's psychotic depression, a father's rage and violent rigidity, a sister's early depression and eventual suicide, and emerging memories of childhood incest. At times humorous and often brutally candid, DeSalvo also delves through the more recent conflicts posed by marriage, motherhood, and the crisis that started her on the path of her life's work: becoming a writer in order to excavate the meaning of her life and community. In Vertigo, Louise DeSalvo paints a striking picture of the easy freedom of the husband and fatherless world of working-class Hoboken, New Jersey, the neighborhood of her early childhood, where mothers and children had an unaccustomed say in the running of their lives while men were off defending their country, but were jolted back into submission when World War II ended. Hoboken was not a place where girls were encouraged to develop their minds, or their independent spirits, yet it is that tenement-dotted city with its pulse and energy, wonderful Italian pastry, and sidewalk roller-skating contests, and not suburban Ridgefield, where the family moves when Louise is seven, that claims Louise's heart. Written with an honesty that is as rare as it is unsettling, Vertigo also speaks to broader truths about the impact of ethnicity, class, and gender in American life. Offering inspiration and a healthy dose of subversion, this personal story of a writer's life is also a study of the alchemy between lived experience and creativity, and the life-transforming possibilities of this process.
Publisher: Feminist Press at CUNY
ISBN: 9781558613959
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 308
Book Description
Born to immigrant parents during World War II and coming of age during the 1950s, DeSalvo finds herself rebelling against a script written by parental and societal expectations. In her revealing family memoir, DeSalvo sifts through painful memories to give voice to all that remained unspoken and unresolved in her life: a mother's psychotic depression, a father's rage and violent rigidity, a sister's early depression and eventual suicide, and emerging memories of childhood incest. At times humorous and often brutally candid, DeSalvo also delves through the more recent conflicts posed by marriage, motherhood, and the crisis that started her on the path of her life's work: becoming a writer in order to excavate the meaning of her life and community. In Vertigo, Louise DeSalvo paints a striking picture of the easy freedom of the husband and fatherless world of working-class Hoboken, New Jersey, the neighborhood of her early childhood, where mothers and children had an unaccustomed say in the running of their lives while men were off defending their country, but were jolted back into submission when World War II ended. Hoboken was not a place where girls were encouraged to develop their minds, or their independent spirits, yet it is that tenement-dotted city with its pulse and energy, wonderful Italian pastry, and sidewalk roller-skating contests, and not suburban Ridgefield, where the family moves when Louise is seven, that claims Louise's heart. Written with an honesty that is as rare as it is unsettling, Vertigo also speaks to broader truths about the impact of ethnicity, class, and gender in American life. Offering inspiration and a healthy dose of subversion, this personal story of a writer's life is also a study of the alchemy between lived experience and creativity, and the life-transforming possibilities of this process.
Vertigo Visions - Dr. Thirteen (1998-) #1
Author: Matt Howarth
Publisher: Vertigo
ISBN:
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 58
Book Description
Dr. Terrence Thirteen's profession has turned into an obsession, with his increasingly arrogant, paranoid behavior alienating everyone around him. His wife wants a divorce, his colleagues think he's crazy and his timing couldn't be worse--because an evil artificial intelligence is warping his world.
Publisher: Vertigo
ISBN:
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 58
Book Description
Dr. Terrence Thirteen's profession has turned into an obsession, with his increasingly arrogant, paranoid behavior alienating everyone around him. His wife wants a divorce, his colleagues think he's crazy and his timing couldn't be worse--because an evil artificial intelligence is warping his world.
Vertigo Visions - Frank Quitely
Author: Frank Quitely
Publisher: Vertigo
ISBN: 9781401242374
Category : Graphic novels
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Frank Quitely's amazing, finely detailed artwork has been gracing theVertigo comic page for decades, including runs on WE3 and FlexMentallo: Muscle Man of Mystery.
Publisher: Vertigo
ISBN: 9781401242374
Category : Graphic novels
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Frank Quitely's amazing, finely detailed artwork has been gracing theVertigo comic page for decades, including runs on WE3 and FlexMentallo: Muscle Man of Mystery.
If the Walls of My Exam Room Could Talk
Author: Debby Feinberg
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781482399790
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 284
Book Description
Who would have thought that a basic eye alignment problem could cause a person to be miserable or disabled? Yet that is exactly what is happening with Vertical Heterophoria (VH), a visual condition where there is a slight vertical image misalignment which causes headaches, dizziness, anxiety, neck pain and reading difficulties. Using techniques developed by Dr. Debby Feinberg, patients are fit with prism eyeglass lenses that realign the images, resulting (on average) in an 80% reduction of symptoms. This book contains the stories of those suffering from VH, their difficult journey through life and the medical system, and their recovery and return to health using just a simple pair of properly prescribed prism lenses."Who, indeed, could have supposed that a mere ocular defect could have given rise to so serious a train of evils...and who that had not seen it, could believe that the correction by glasses of the eye trouble could have given a relief so speedy and so perfect that the patient described it as a miracle?" Dr. S. Weir Mitchell, Neurologist and Headache Specialist Philadelphia, PA Headaches and Eye Strain, April 1876
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781482399790
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 284
Book Description
Who would have thought that a basic eye alignment problem could cause a person to be miserable or disabled? Yet that is exactly what is happening with Vertical Heterophoria (VH), a visual condition where there is a slight vertical image misalignment which causes headaches, dizziness, anxiety, neck pain and reading difficulties. Using techniques developed by Dr. Debby Feinberg, patients are fit with prism eyeglass lenses that realign the images, resulting (on average) in an 80% reduction of symptoms. This book contains the stories of those suffering from VH, their difficult journey through life and the medical system, and their recovery and return to health using just a simple pair of properly prescribed prism lenses."Who, indeed, could have supposed that a mere ocular defect could have given rise to so serious a train of evils...and who that had not seen it, could believe that the correction by glasses of the eye trouble could have given a relief so speedy and so perfect that the patient described it as a miracle?" Dr. S. Weir Mitchell, Neurologist and Headache Specialist Philadelphia, PA Headaches and Eye Strain, April 1876
Vertigo
Author: Lynd Ward
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 0486468895
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 322
Book Description
In this moving graphic novel without words, one of the finest artists of the 20th century uses 230 intricately detailed woodcuts to tell a dramatic tale of the Great Depression. A young girl who longs to be an accomplished violinist and a boy who hopes to become a builder find their dreams shattered by desperate economic times.
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 0486468895
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 322
Book Description
In this moving graphic novel without words, one of the finest artists of the 20th century uses 230 intricately detailed woodcuts to tell a dramatic tale of the Great Depression. A young girl who longs to be an accomplished violinist and a boy who hopes to become a builder find their dreams shattered by desperate economic times.