Foul Play!: The Art and Artists of the Notorious 1950s E.C. Comics!
by Grant Geissman
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Thank you, M. & S. !!! And, as could be expected, I was startled awake by a nightmare! - thanks to the E.C. classic "Horror We? How's Bayou?"
An excellent coffee table book. If your coffee table happens to be fashioned out of a selection of bones, doilied with spiderwebs. :)
An excellent coffee table book. If your coffee table happens to be fashioned out of a selection of bones, doilied with spiderwebs. :)
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Read in October, 2008
The book is divided by artists and has a wikipedia-style introduction to a short EC comics work each of them did. Most of the biographical shorts are sad, because the comics scare unemployed these horror artists, and a lot of them had trouble finding work after defining a genre that was made illegal by US censors. That story doesn't really get told here, but there are pieces of it in each biography. I wonder if there is a more straight forward book that tells the history of EC comics. The shor...more
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Read in January, 2007
A great overview of one of the great leaps forward for comics as a whole. The best part is that after every section on each artist, they reprint a signature story to give you a sense of their style, and the stories are, of course, great.
My favorite tidbit of trivia? Apparently, one of my favorite EC artists (and Charles Burns of the 1950s), Jack Kamen, is the father of the guy who invented the Segway. Speaking of which...
Eh, I got nothin'. I just thought couldn't resist the "segway/...more
My favorite tidbit of trivia? Apparently, one of my favorite EC artists (and Charles Burns of the 1950s), Jack Kamen, is the father of the guy who invented the Segway. Speaking of which...
Eh, I got nothin'. I just thought couldn't resist the "segway/...more
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Read in March, 2008
recommended to Johnny by:
the comic book store shelf.recommends it for: gorehounds. art fans. sick fuckers.
Freakin' awesome! These are the godfathers of modern comic art. They revolutionized the form, introducing dark and bizarre subject matter that freaked out all the folks in charge of censoring stuff. In the immortal words of Glenn Danzig, "All murder, all guts, all fun!"
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