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Many consider The Tempest to be Shakespeare’s “crowning glory”. Cast onto the waters by his power-hungry brother, Prospero has developed strong magical powers that he now uses to teach a lesson to those that have previously wronged him and his daughter Miranda. Designed to encourage readers to enjoy classical literature, titles in the Classical Comics…
Hailed in Europe, Guido Buzzelli has been called “the Michaelangelo of monsters,” “the Goya of comics,” and “the patron saint of all Italian cartoonists.” A pioneer active from the 1950s-1980s, today virtually unknown in English, Buzzelli horrifies, fascinates, and provokes with his unique blend of surrealism and dynamism. Displaying a range of influences from Westerns…
Hailed in Europe, Guido Buzzelli has been called “the Michaelangelo of monsters,” “the Goya of comics,” and “the patron saint of all Italian cartoonists.” A pioneer active from the 1950s-1980s, today virtually unknown in English, Buzzelli horrifies, fascinates, and provokes with his unique blend of surrealism and dynamism. Displaying a range of influences from Westerns…
“…often remarkably judicious.” That’s what Peter Davison, the editor of George Orwell’s Complete Works, said in 1998 about these authors, Orwell for Beginners, contained in this volume No twentieth-century writer remains more vividly etched in the public imagination than George Orwell, thanks to Animal Farm and the unforgettable Nineteen Eighty-Four– and thanks, as well, to…
This essay collection examines the theory and history of graphic narrative as one of the most interesting and versatile forms of storytelling in contemporary media culture. Its contributions test the applicability of narratological concepts to graphic narrative, examine aspects of graphic narrative beyond the ‘single work’, consider the development of particular narrative strategies within individual…
“Naked Athena” leads off Theodore Van Alst Jr.’s 2020 Portland Protest Portfolio in this 2021 volume of Gobshite Quarterly. This issue also contains: An essay by Catalunyan Cristina Álvarez Lopez & a hybrid memoir/poem by PDXer Leanne Grabel. Poems by Croatian poets Tomislav Marijan Bilosnic & Croatian Marija Dejanovic & Monika Herceg, New Yorker poet…
This book provides both students and scholars with a critical and historical introduction to the graphic novel. Jan Baetens and Hugo Frey explore this exciting form of visual and literary communication, showing readers how to situate and analyze graphic novels since their rise to prominence half a century ago. Several key questions are addressed: What…
A single silver sixpence sets the stage for a tale as bright as its coin. Step into the gentle world of Old Dame And Her Silver Sixpence, a classic British nursery rhyme picture book where the simple act of counting money becomes a charming adventure. Through rhythmic verse and delightful illustrations, children meet the old…
Il signor Bonaventura tra i personaggi del fumetto d’epoca è uno dei più longevi e popolari, tanto da potersi inserire di diritto nella storia del costume nazionale con le sue avventure, che cominciano male ma si concludono sempre con l’inattesa e fortunata ricompensa di un milione. Nato oltre un secolo fa, nel 1917, ancora oggi…
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