false 564939 0 0 3580652 1560979712 9781560979715 5 <![CDATA[Supermen!: The First Wave Of Comic Book Heroes 1939-41]]> http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3580652.Supermen_The_First_Wave_Of_Comic_Book_Heroes_1939_41 3.88 17 6404 3.71 22327 2933 564939 4.00 27 7 2009 1154254 1560977558 9781560977551 1 <![CDATA[The Comics Journal Library Vol. 7: Harvey Kurtzman]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1181446279m/1154254.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1181446279s/1154254.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1154254.The_Comics_Journal_Library_Vol_7_Harvey_Kurtzman 4.14 7 Examining the career of the creator of MAD and Little Annie Fanny, in his own words.

The seventh volume in this distinguished series focuses entirely on one of comics' most esteemed and influential creators: artist, writer and editor Harvey Kurtzman, whose complete Comics Journal interviews are collected in this oversized, lavishly illustrated full-color edition.

Every stage of Kurtzman's landmark career is represented, beginning with his entry into comics via superhero stories for Ace from 1943-46 (Mr. Risk, Lash Lightning), World War II-era Army cartoons, early humor work for Timely and Toby Press (Rusty, Pig Tales, Genius, and Hey Look!), his first collaborations with John Severin and Will Elder at Prize Comics Western, and, of course, his groundbreaking period at EC as editor of Two-Fisted Tales, Frontline Combat and MAD. Kurtzman's undeservedly lesser-known post-MAD career at Trump, Humbug, and Help! is also given its due and examined in depth.

Many of the premier cartoonists of the past half-century are represented, including Robert Crumb, Jack Davis, Elder, Russ Heath, Al Jaffee, Arnold Roth, Marie Severin, and Wallace Wood. Yet what makes this volume particularly noteworthy are the obscurities unearthed from Kurtzman's solo freelance career—from Children's Digest, Pageant, U.S. Crime, Varsity and Why—most of which haven't been seen since their original publication. All of which illustrate the most informative and compelling interviews with Kurtzman ever published.]]> 564939 4.00 27 7 2006 1467450 1560974664 9781560974666 1 <![CDATA[B. Krigstein, Volume 1]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1183904316m/1467450.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1183904316s/1467450.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1467450.B_Krigstein_Volume_1 4.33 3 A gigantic retrospective/biography/critical assessment of one of the most important cartoonists in the history of comics, who went on to become a renowned fine artist and teacher in New York. The author had full access to Bernard Krigstein's archives and files and has written a compelling biography of the artist from his childhood in New York to his days as a comics artist from the late '40s to the early '60s, and through his post-comics career as a fine artist, commercial illustrator, and teacher. Krigstein is renowned as one of the great innovators working within the commercial comics industry: his story about a Nazi commandant, "Master Race," published by the legendary EC Comics, is studied in college courses and considered one of the most fascinating formal experiments in comics. This book reproduces many of Krigstein's comics stories as well as many of his commercial assignments (such as the line of paperback covers he did for the reissues of Joyce Cary's novels) as well as his fine art paintings. Most of this work has never been seen outside its original publication. Most of the comics stories are obscure and have not been reprinted since their initial publication (mostly from the '50s) and his fine art has only appeared in galleries and exhibitions.

Krigstein (1919-1990), classically trained in Fine Art, was a Brooklyn-born painter who was one of the first practitioners who approached comics with the respect, integrity, and psychological depth of a serious artist. After an innovative and contentious decade, he was forced to abandon the field due to its narrow-minded and formulaic tendencies, which continue to this day. This first of two volumes traces Krigstein's groundbreaking comic-book work at Hillman, Atlas, DC, and EC, as well as his parallel development as an illustrator and painter.

]]> 564939 4.00 27 7 2002 2786904 1560979313 9781560979319 0 <![CDATA[B. Krigstein Vol. II: A Life in Art from Comics to Canvas (1955-1990)]]> http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2786904.B_Krigstein_Vol_II_A_Life_in_Art_from_Comics_to_Canvas 0.0 0 Profiling the latter half of the life of the influential master.

Five years after his Eisner and Harvey Award-winning B. Krigstein Vol. I, Greg Sadowski completes the biography with a comprehensive look at the final 35 years of this comic-book pioneer, illustrator, teacher, and painter. Given full access to the artist's estate, the author displays over 500 examples from Krigstein's considerable output, and frames his narrative with the recollections of colleagues, students, friends, and family. Many of Krigstein's own writings are unearthed, including an unfinished treatise on the art of picture making. A revealing 1978 interview with John Benson is printed for the first time, as is the transcript of a young Art Spiegelman reading his 1969 college paper, An Examination of "Master Race," to the mounting irritation of the cantankerous Krigstein.

B. Krigstein Vol. II begins with the artist's last group of comics, 29 short stories for Atlas editor Stan Lee that Krigstein used to explore the innate flexibility of the comics form. "I was really writing messages and sending them to sea in a bottle, there. Those stories were my attempt at carrying out an object lesson of how comic stories could be broken down." Six of his best Atlas stories have been lovingly recolored for this edition by veteran colorist Marie Severin, and a checklist of Krigstein's complete comic-book work is provided.

The artist's five stormy years in commercial illustration are thoroughly examined, from his early advertising art, LP covers for Columbia Records, book interiors and jackets (notably The Manchurian Candidate and the novels of Joyce Cary), to his final work for American Heritage, Boy's Life, The New York Times, and The Saturday Evening Post. Disillusioned with illustration, Krigstein attempted to return to comics by proposing several full-length adaptations of classic works of literature, including The Red Badge of Courage, Treasure Island, and War and Peace. The rejection of these avant-garde attempts at a graphic novel convinced him to leave the commercial field for good; in 1964 he joined the faculty of New York City's High School of Art & Design. Finally settled into a secure vocation, he opened a Manhattan studio and set about creating a prodigious amount of oils, watercolors, pastels, and drawings until shortly before his death in January 1990.]]> 564939 4.00 27 7 2008 7093594 1606993437 9781606993439 0 <![CDATA[Four Color Fear: Forgotten Horror Comics of the 1950s]]> http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7093594-four-color-fear 0.0 0 141734 3.66 38 11 564939 4.00 27 7 2010