Author: John Carlin & Paul Karasik Brian Walker

This fascinating book focuses on fifteen pioneering cartoonists--ranging from Winsor McCay to Chris Ware--who brought this genre to the highest level of artistic expression and who had the greatest impact on the developm ...

Author: John Bell

What do Superman, Prince Valiant, Cerbus the Aardvark, and Spawn have in common? Their creators - Joe Shuster, Harold Foster Dave Sim, and Todd McFarlane - are Canadians. And while many of the cutting-edge talents of con ...

Author: Greg Preston

The culmination of more than fifteen years of photography by renowned photographer, Greg Preston, this book is a living history of the men and women who have shaped the imaginations of countless millions of people around ...

Author: Paul Gravett

Graphic novels, long stories told in comics format, have enjoyed the fastest-growing sales of any category of book in the U.S. over the last four years. This modern renaissance of comics has produced a library of sub ...

Author: Arie Kaplan

Presents a history of the comic book chronicles and the lives and careers of the artists and writers who created them. This book discusses about 11 comic book masters, including Art Spiegelman, Neil Gaiman, Stan Lee, Dwa ...

Author: Tom DeFalco

In the near future, humanity will be faced by a grave challenge: mutation. Gifted with an array of incredible powers, the X-Men have fought to break down the barriers of fear and hate between human and mutant-kind over f ...

Author: Steve Saffel

From his debut in August 1962's Amazing Fantasy No. 15, Peter Parker - better known as the Amazing Spider-Man - has thrilled audiences worldwide in comics, movies, cartoons and much more! This spectacular, full-colour bo ...

Author: Tom DeFalco

With the Fantastic Four movie poised to smash box office records this summer, the time is ripe for this in-depth history of the FF's comics career, featuring interviews with every major creator! Comics Creators on Fanta ...

Author: Chris Ware

Guest editor Chris Ware and series editor Anne Elizabeth Moore have sought out the best stories to create this cutting-edge collection. Contributors include Lynda Barry, R. and Aline Crumb, Kim Deitch, Gilbert Hernandez, ...

Author: Frederik L. Schodt

The pioneering genius of Japan's God of Comics, Osamu Tezuka (1928-89), is examined through his life's masterwork: Tetsuwan Atomu, also known as Mighty Atom or Astro Boy, a comic series featuring a cute little android ...

Author: Takeshi Abe & Adam Beltz

Ten-year-old prodigy Negi Springfield has just graduated from magic academy and dreams of becoming a master wizard, but hes sent to Japan to teach English at an all-girls school, where hes forbidden to display his powers ...

Author: Douglas Wolk

This is the first serious, readable, provocative, canon-smashing book of comics criticism by the leading critic in the field. Suddenly, comics are everywhere: a newly matured art form, filling bookshelves with brilliant, ...

Author: Peter Sanderson & Eliot R. Brown Mark Gruenwald

A picture's worth a thousand words, and there have always been top supplies of both in the ever-moving manuals of marvels and miscreants! Now, witness first-hand the series that started it all in Mark Gruenwald's origina ...

Author: Tom Spurgeon

A celebration of the great comic book writers culled from the pages of America's most respected comics magazine. From the cool passion of sci-fi and occasional comics writer Harlan Ellison to the soap opera explorations ...

Author: Thomas Andrae

For over twenty-five years, Disney artist, Carl Barks (1901-2000) created some of the most brilliant and funny stories in the most popular comic books of all time. Although he worked in anonymity, Bark's unique artistic ...

Author: David Kunzie

Among the many accomplishments in art and literature by Rodolphe Topffer (1799-1846), his invention of the comic strip stands out as the most surprising, curious, and - after 100 years of being inundated by comic strips ...

Author: Jeff McLaughlin

Stan Lee (b. 1922), co-creator of the amazing Spider-Man, the Fantastic Four, the Incredible Hulk, and the X-Men, is one of the most successful and popular writers and publishers of comics in the world. Stan Lee: Convers ...

Author: Joe Kubert

Few artists can capture visceral action sequences and the dynamic human form like Joe Kubert, and his expressive talents are fully realized in his 1970s Tarzan comics. This beautiful archive collection - with an introduc ...

Author: Jeff Smith

Bone is an international publishing sensation with hundreds of thousands of loyal readers and no end in sight to its growing popularity. Now, for the first time anywhere, see the homemade comics, sketches and grand plans ...

Author: Roy Thomas

This volume includes more amazing information and speculation concerning the classic All-Star Comics of 1940-1951, with never-before-seen art by Irwin Hasen, Carmine Infantino, Alex Toth, Mart Nodell, Paul Reinman, Arthu ...