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This is a pictorial journey of a Chinese boy coming to “Gold Mountain,” America in 1882. The cultural shock, his desire to help his impoverished family, and his own desire for riches brought about many struggles and inner-conflicts, Through it all, he finds courage, friendships, and new hope,
-Nueva edición exclusiva de Amazon- Diviértase con la gallina Anacleta y sus amigos, asà como con la precoz niña Alina y los demás personajes creados y dibujados al estilo de las tiras cómicas clásicas por Abel Carvajal. Unas graciosas caricaturas para todas las edades. ANACLETA: -Al autor (mi dibujante) le gustarÃa obsequiarle este libro, pero…
The intent of this book is not to scare anyone or to cause readers not to travel. The intent is to give the readers some common sense ideas on how to survive if they should become a victim of a terrorist attack, and also to educate readers in conducting normal everyday activities in a manner…
The Marvel Timeline Project is a chronology of Marvel Comics in the Silver Age written by expert chronologist and Marvel aficionado Jeff Deischer and Marvel historian and official indexer Murray Ward. Part 1 covers the first four years of the “Marvel Age” and includes synopses of the stories.
Interweaving nuanced discussions of politics, visuality, and gender, Gender and Activism in a Little Magazine uncovers the complex ways that gender figures into the graphic satire created by artists for the New York-based socialist journal the Masses, published between 1911 and 1917. This study uses these images to open up new ways of understanding the…
Get ready to blast off into a world of adventure with Ace O’Hara: Scifi Hero! This beloved classic strip has been thrilling readers for generations with its pulse-pounding action and intergalactic intrigue. Follow Ace O’Hara, the daring space pilot, as he battles evil villains, travels to new worlds, and saves the galaxy from destruction time…
Interweaving nuanced discussions of politics, visuality, and gender, Gender and Activism in a Little Magazine uncovers the complex ways that gender figures into the graphic satire created by artists for the New York City-based socialist journal, the Masses. This exceptional magazine was published between 1911 and 1917, during an unusually radical decade in American history,…
This book takes a narrative, issue-by-issue look at Marvel’s G.I. Joe comic, written by Larry Hama, generally regarded as the official story of the Real American Hero. Also included in this volume — Marvel’s G.I. Joe Special Missions title, the G.I. Joe Yearbooks, the G.I. Joe/Transformers mini-series, G.I. Joe Order of Battle, and more!
A comprehensive survey of monastic seals from the 13th century, exploring the iconography and symbolism of these intricate artifacts. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the “public domain in the United States of…
A comprehensive survey of monastic seals from the 13th century, exploring the iconography and symbolism of these intricate artifacts. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the “public domain in the United States of…
This well focused and perceptive analysis of a phenomenon in our popular culture–the new respectability of the comic book form–argues that the comics medium has a productive tradition of telling true stories with grace and economy. It details vividly the outburst of underground comics in the late 1960s and ’70s, whose cadre of artistically gifted…
Superhero comic books are traditionally thought to have two distinct periods, two major waves of creativity: the Golden Age and the Silver Age. In simple terms, the Golden Age was the birth of the superhero proper out of the pulp novel characters of the early 1930s, and was primarily associated with the DC Comics Group….
In October 1931, Dick Tracy made his debut on the pages of the Detroit Mirror. Since then America’s most famous crime fighter has tangled with a variety of protagonists from locations as diverse as the inner city and outer space, all the time maintaining the moral high ground while reflecting American popular culture. Through extensive…
This book, first published in 1986, contains a series of articles from The Accountants’ Magazine from the early years of the twentieth century. Careful selection of the articles for this volume mean that there are often contrasting pairs of articles on the same subject, providing a neat summation of any debate on the topic.
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