Comics and stories that will make you BLAB! Premiere issue
(2023)
Nonfiction
Book
Call Numbers:
741.5973/COMICS
Availability
Details
PUBLISHED
Milwaukie, OR : Dark Horse Books, a division of Dark Horse Comics LLC, 2023
EDITION
First edition, Premiere issue
DESCRIPTION
112 pages : chiefly illustrations (chiefly color) ; 28 cm
ISBN/ISSN
9781506735245, 150673524X, 9781506735245
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES
Cover title
An anthology of 12 entries, presented in graphic novel form or as illustrated articles, recounting the lives and times of authors and artists, as well as a variety of other historical and pop culture topics, interspersed with vintage comic book ads
CONTENTS
Louis Wain on the verge of the future /
Noah Van Sciver -- Are you an American? (vintage comic book ad) --
Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster /
Ryan Heshka & Monte Beauchamp -- Typephiliac /
Greg Clarke -- Beatrix Potter, an underappreciated naturalist /
Giselle Potter -- With God all things are possible (vintage comic book ad) --
Enge-ena /
Monte Beauchamp -- Gorilla gallery /
Monte Beauchamp -- Fantomah /
Barclay Flagg aka Fletcher Hanks -- Make your own records at home (vintage comic book ad) --
Murnau /
Sasha Velour -- Of all the saws I ever saw (vintage comic book ad) --
Death of comics /
Noah Van Sciver -- Miniature dog at no cost! (vintage comic book ad) --
Freethinker's pictorial text-book /
Watson Heston -- Save your hair (vintage comic book ad) --
From another universe /
Jeffrey Steele & Ryan Heshka -- Shit-faced prodigy of the Jazz Age /
Greg Clarke & Monte Beauchamp