Jack Cole and Plastic Man: Forms Stretched to Their Limits
10 best books like Jack Cole and Plastic Man: Forms Stretched to Their Limits (Art Spiegelman): Men of Tomorrow: Geeks, Gangsters, and the Birth of the Comic Book, El Borbah, You Shall Die by Your Own Evil Creation!, Secret Identity: The Fetish Art of Superman's Co-Creator Joe Shuster, Art Out of Time: Unknown Comics Visionaries, 1900-1969, Maakies, Krazy and Ignatz, 1927-1928: Love Letters in Ancient Brick, The Boulevard of Broken Dreams, The Best American Comics 2007, The Best American Comics 2006
Men of Tomorrow: Geeks, Gangsters, and the Birth of the Comic Book
| Author | Gerard Jones |
| ISBN | 0465036570 |
Animated by the stories of some of the last century's most charismatic and conniving artists, writers, and businessmen, Men of Tomorrow brilliantly demonstrates how the creators of the superheroes gained their cultural power and established a crucial place in the modern imagination. "This history...
| Author | Charles Burns |
| ISBN | 1560976934 |
Meet El Borbah, a 400-pound private eye who wears a Mexican wrestler's tights and eerie mask. Subsisting entirely on junk food and beer, El Borbah conducts his investigations with tough talk and a short temper. He smashes through doors and skulls as he stalks a perfectly realized film-noir city filled...
| Author | Fletcher Hanks |
| ISBN | 1606991604 |
Fletcher Hanks was the first great comic book auteur. That is, hewrote, penciled, inked, and lettered all of his own stories. Hecompleted an astonishing 48 stories in three years from 1939-1941. As aone-man-cartooning-band, his work packs the wallop of a unique andunified artistic vision. He was...
Secret Identity: The Fetish Art of Superman's Co-Creator Joe Shuster
| Author | Craig Yoe |
| ISBN | 0810996340 |
Evil mobsters…panting sado-masochists…horse-whipped girls…pervy pornographers…blue-nosed censors…a rabid shrink…a pious minister…a slimy publisher…good cops & bad cops…sexy showgirls…a poetry-spouting, songwriting defense lawyer…neo-Nazi, Jewish,...
| Author | Dan Nadel |
| ISBN | 0810958384 |
Most of these are simply not interesting to read. This is especially true when many of the comics are not printed so that the writing is reasonable. Also some of the art is designed in a way so that the writing is hard to read even when zoomed in.
But a couple are real gems. . . . In particular, "Herbie."...
| Author | Tony Millionaire |
| ISBN | 1560973919 |
Tony Millionaire's comic strip Maakies is one of the most popular weekly comic strips in America, running in ten of the largest U.S. weekly newspapers, including the L.A. New Times and Seattle Stranger. This first collection, designed by Chip Kidd and Millionaire, reprints every strip from its 1994...
| Author | George Herriman |
| ISBN | 1560975075 |
This volume is one of a long-term plan to chronologically reprint strips from the prime of Herriman's career, most of which have not seen print since originally running in newspapers 75 years ago. Each volume is edited by the San Francisco Cartoon Art Museum's Bill Blackbeard, the world's foremost...
| Author | Kim Deitch |
| ISBN | 0375421912 |
The newest addition to Pantheon's growing list of graphic novels: a visually beautiful, narratively intricate, and powerful book by one of the most original, and–until now–least recognized comic artists at work today.
The place is New York City in 1933. The setting: the Fontaine Talking...
| Author | Chris Ware |
| ISBN | 0618718761 |
While The Best American Comics of 2006 had an admittedly liberal-bias (not so much a problem for me) the comics ran the gamut from conventional to wildly experimental narrative in a variety of artistic forms, so nebulous that it was difficult to categorize some of them as styles. There was fiction and...
| Author | Harvey Pekar |
| ISBN | 0618718745 |
The popularity of the graphic genre continues to rage, and The Best American Comics is a diverse, exciting annual selection for fans and newcomers alike. The inaugural volume includes stories culled from graphic novels, pamphlet comics, newspapers, magazines, mini-comics, and the Web.
Contributors...
| Author | Robert Crumb |
| ISBN | 1840727160 |
The R. Crumb Handbook is a brand new take on the life, trials and ideas of one of the most influential cartoonists of the last 40 years. Wry, self-deprecating, and candid, this is an exceptionally revealing and unexpectedly moving visual biography. Crumb is thoughtful and enlightening, with insights...
Will Eisner: A Dreamer's Life in Comics
| Author | Michael Schumacher |
| ISBN | 1608190137 |
In Will Eisner: A Dreamer's Life in Comics, Michael Schumacher delves beneath Eisner's public persona to draw connections between his life and his art. Eisner's career spanned a remarkable eight decades, from his scrappy survival at the dawn of comics' Golden Age in the late 1930s to the beginning...
| Author | Will Eisner |
| ISBN | 1569717559 |
It would be hard to imagine any creators who have more greatly affected their chosen medium than Will Eisner and Frank Miller have influenced the world of comics and graphic novels. Often misunderstood, but enduringly enjoyed by people from all walks of life, the comic book has in recent years been recognized...
Welcome to Ian Frazier's New York, where every block is an event, and where the denizens are larger than life. Meet landlord extraordinaire Zvi Hugo Segal, and the man who scaled the World Trade Center. Learn the location of Manhattan's antipodes, and meander the length of Route 3 to New Jersey. Like...
Popeye, Vol. 1: I Yam What I Yam!
| Author | E.C. Segar |
| ISBN | 1560977795 |
Fantagraphics' Popeye series will collect the complete run of Segar's Thimble Theatre comic strip (dailies and color Sundays) featuring Popeye, re-establishing Segar as one of the first rank of cartoonists who have elevated the comic strip to art. He was the most popular cartoonist of his day, his...
| Author | Peter Bagge |
| ISBN | 1560975768 |
Meet the Bradleys, America's most dysfunctional family: Pops, Mom, Buddy, Babs and Butch Bradley. This volume collects all of Bagge's early, explosively funny pre-Hate tales of the dysfunctional Bradley family from Neat Stuff, including "You're Not the Boss of Me!," "Merry F*cking Christmas!,"...
Alan Moore: Portrait of an Extraordinary Gentleman
Alan Moore: Portrait of an Extraordinary Gentleman contains comic strips, illustrations, essays, articles, anecdotes and other pieces contributed by top American, English, and international comics creators paying tribute to the master of comic book writing, Alan Moore (creator of Watchmen...
Batman: The Complete History
| Author | Les Daniels |
| ISBN | 0811842320 |
The super-powered trilogy that captured the world's greatest superhero triumvirate of all time is now available in paperback. Relive the adventures of Krypton's favorite son inside and outside the comic book world in Superman: The Complete History. Uncover the Caped Crusader's mysterious real-world...
The Great Comic Book Heroes
| Author | Jules Feiffer |
| ISBN | 1560975016 |
Fantagraphics is proud to publish Jules Feiffer's long out-of-print and seminal essay of comics criticism, The Great Comic Book Heroes, in a compact and affordable size. In 1965, Feiffer wrote what is arguably the first critical history of the comic book superheroes of the late 1930s and early 1940s,...
Superman on the Couch: What Superheroes Really Tell Us about Ourselves and Our Society
| Author | Danny Fingeroth |
| ISBN | 0826415407 |
Why are so many of the superhero myths tied up with loss, often violent, of parents or parental figures? What is the significance of the dual identity? What makes some superhuman figures "good" and others "evil"? Why are so many of the prime superheroes white and male? How has the superhero evolved over...
Jack Kirby created or co-created some of comic books’ most popular characters including Captain America, The X-Men, The Hulk, The Fantastic Four, The Mighty Thor, Darkseid, and The New Gods. More significantly, he created much of the visual language for fantasy and adventure comics. There were...
Bat-Manga!: The Secret History of Batman in Japan
| Author | Chip Kidd |
| ISBN | 0375714847 |
The two hottest genres in comics gleefully collide head-on, as the most beloved American superhero gets the coolest Japanese manga makeover ever.
In 1966, during the height of the first Batman craze, a weekly Japanese manga anthology for boys, Shonen King, licensed the rights to commission...
