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The British Invasion: Alan Moore, Neil Gaiman, Grant Morrison, and the Invention of the Modern Comic Book Writer
ISBN: 9781940589077 / Angielski / Miękka / 490 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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80,88 |
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A Galaxy Far, Far Away: Exploring Star Wars Comics
ISBN: 9781940589138 / Angielski / Miękka / 340 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Ever since STAR WARS hit theaters in 1977, comic books and comic strips have taken the characters beyond the silver screen. Since then, almost 2000 comics have been produced from a variety of publishers, including Marvel Comics, Blackthorne Publishing, the L.A. Times Syndicate, Dark Horse Comics, Scholastic, Tokyopop, and more, addressing every aspect of the Star Wars universe. A GALAXY FAR, FAR AWAY: EXPLORING STAR WARS COMICS features insightful, analytical essays examining these comics. From Jaxxon to Cody Sunn-Childe, from Ulic Qel-Droma to Lady Lumiya, find out how comics helped to keep...
Ever since STAR WARS hit theaters in 1977, comic books and comic strips have taken the characters beyond the silver screen. Since then, almost 2000 co...
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68,74 |
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The Man who Watched Batman Vol. 3: An in depth analysis of Batman: The Animated Series
ISBN: 9781541124172 / Angielski / Miękka / 200 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Man Who Watched Batman Vol. 3 is the ultimate companion book to Batman: The Animated Series. Whether you can quote every line or are watching for the very first time, this novel will leave no stone unturned to give you the ultimate BTAS experience. Every single episode, character, plot twist, reinterpretation, melody and metaphor. This academic and critical analysis is unlike anything you'll find on shelves. This isn't just plot summaries or fun facts from the internet. This is a personal, yet professional commentary of the greatest animated show of all time.
The Man Who Watched Batman Vol. 3 is the ultimate companion book to Batman: The Animated Series. Whether you can quote every line or are watching for ...
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40,47 |
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A Theory of Narrative Drawing
ISBN: 9781137521651 / Angielski / Twarda / 277 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book offers an original new conception of visual story telling, proposing that drawing, depictive drawing and narrative drawing are produced in an encompassing dialogic system of embodied social behavior.
This book offers an original new conception of visual story telling, proposing that drawing, depictive drawing and narrative drawing are produced in...
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563,56 |
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Humans and Paragons: Essays on Super-Hero Justice
ISBN: 9781940589145 / Angielski / Miękka / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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68,74 |
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Manga in Theory and Practice
ISBN: 9781421594071 / Angielski / Twarda / 280 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Learn how to create manga from Hirohiko Araki--creator of Jojo's Bizarre Adventure and a master of the medium Hirohiko Araki is the author of one of the longest-running and most beloved manga of all time, the epic fan favorite JoJo's Bizarre Adventure. According to him, manga is the ultimate synthesis of all forms of art, and in this book he reveals the secrets behind how to make the magic happen using concrete examples from his own work. Read all about his "golden ratio" for drawing, the character histories he draws up for each of the characters he creates, his methodology...
Learn how to create manga from Hirohiko Araki--creator of Jojo's Bizarre Adventure and a master of the medium Hirohiko Araki is the author...
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80,47 |
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Visions of the Future in Comics: International Perspectives
ISBN: 9781476668017 / Angielski / Miękka / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Across generations and genres, comics have imagined different views of the future, from unattainable utopias to worrisome dystopias. These presaging narratives can be read as reflections of their authors' (and readers') hopes, fears and beliefs about the present. This collection of new essays explores the creative processes in comics production that bring plausible futures to the page.
Across generations and genres, comics have imagined different views of the future, from unattainable utopias to worrisome dystopias. These presaging n...
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221,82 |
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The Walking Dead Magazine Companion
ISBN: 9781785862984 / Angielski / Miękka / 176 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This essential guide to the Walking Dead comics presents the best features, interviews and guides to the award-winning comic as featured in the Official Walking Dead Magazine. As The Walking Dead shuffles back onto TV screens for its highly anticipated 16-episode 7th season, fans of the show can celebrate all things The Walking Dead with the second volume of this special collection of features, interviews and more pulled from the magazine, which has been keeping fans up to date with the show for five years. Includes interviews with Robert Kirkman, Charlie Adlard and other members of the...
This essential guide to the Walking Dead comics presents the best features, interviews and guides to the award-winning comic as featured in the Offici...
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92,75 |
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The Algerian War in French-Language Comics: Postcolonial Memory, History, and Subjectivity
ISBN: 9781498516082 / Angielski / Miękka / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The decolonization of Algeria represents a turning point in world history, marking the end of France's colonial empire, the birth of the Algerian republic, and the appearance of the Third World and pan-Arabism. Algeria emerged from colonial domination to negotiate the release of American hostages in Iran during the Carter administration. Radical Islam would later rise from the ashes of Algeria's failed democracy, leading to a civil war and the training of Algerian terrorists in Afghanistan. Moreover, the decolonization of Algeria offered an imperfect model of decolonization to other nations...
The decolonization of Algeria represents a turning point in world history, marking the end of France's colonial empire, the birth of the Algerian repu...
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225,30 |
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Animal Comics: Multispecies Storyworlds in Graphic Narratives
ISBN: 9781350015319 / Angielski / Twarda / 280 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Animal characters abound in graphic narratives ranging from Krazy Kat and Maus to WE3 and Terra Formars. Exploring these and other multispecies storyworlds presented in words and images, Animal Comics draws together work in comics studies, narrative theory, and cross-disciplinary research on animal environments and human-animal relationships to shed new light on comics and graphic novels in which animal agents play a significant role. At the same time, the volume's international team of contributors show how the distinctive structures and affordances of...
Animal characters abound in graphic narratives ranging from Krazy Kat and Maus to WE3 and Terra Formars. Exploring these a...
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587,73 |
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The Ascendance of Harley Quinn: Essays on DC's Enigmatic Villain
ISBN: 9781476665238 / Angielski / Miękka / 239 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "In this collection of new essays, contributors explore her various iterations, focusing on her origin and contexts, the implications of her abusive relationship with the Joker, her relationships with other characters, her representations across media, and the philosophic basis of her character"--
"In this collection of new essays, contributors explore her various iterations, focusing on her origin and contexts, the implications of her abusive r...
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114,15 |
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The Expanding Art of Comics: Ten Modern Masterpieces
ISBN: 9781496808028 / Angielski / Twarda / 252 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Offers a distinct perspective on important evolutions in comics since the 1960s through close readings of ten seminal works. Thierry Groensteen covers over half a century of comics production, sampling a single work from the sixties, seventies, eighties and nineties. He then delves into recent masterpieces. Groensteen recaptures the impact with which these works broke with what had gone before.
Offers a distinct perspective on important evolutions in comics since the 1960s through close readings of ten seminal works. Thierry Groensteen covers...
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445,69 |
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Graphic Novels as Philosophy
ISBN: 9781496813275 / Angielski / Twarda / 228 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Contributions by Eric Bain-Selbo, Jeremy Barris, Maria Botero, Manuel "Mandel" Cabrera Jr., David J. Leichter, Ian MacRae, Alfonso Munoz-Corcuera, Corry Shores, and Jarkko S. Tuusvuori In a follow-up to Comics as Philosophy, international contributors address two questions: Which philosophical insights, concepts, and tools can shed light on the graphic novel? And how can the graphic novel cast light on the concerns of philosophy? Each contributor ponders a well-known graphic novel to illuminate ways in which philosophy can untangle particular combinations of image and written word... Contributions by Eric Bain-Selbo, Jeremy Barris, Maria Botero, Manuel "Mandel" Cabrera Jr., David J. Leichter, Ian MacRae, Alfonso Munoz-Corcuera, ... |
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445,69 |
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The Canadian Alternative: Cartoonists, Comics, and Graphic Novels
ISBN: 9781496815118 / Angielski / Twarda / 308 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This overview of the history of Canadian comics explores acclaimed as well as unfamiliar artists. Contributors look at the myriad ways that English-language, Francophone, indigenous, and queer Canadian comics and cartoonists pose alternatives to American comics, to dominant perceptions, even to gender and racial categories.
This overview of the history of Canadian comics explores acclaimed as well as unfamiliar artists. Contributors look at the myriad ways that English-la...
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445,69 |
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Ben Katchor: Conversations
ISBN: 9781496815811 / Angielski / Twarda / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Author Michael Chabon described Ben Katchor (b. 1951) as ""the creator of the last great American comic strip."" Katchor's work is often described as zany or bizarre, and author Douglas Wolk has characterized his work as ""one or two notches too far"" beyond an absurdist reality. And yet the work resonates with its audience because absurdity was the reality.
Author Michael Chabon described Ben Katchor (b. 1951) as ""the creator of the last great American comic strip."" Katchor's work is often described as ...
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445,69 |
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Latinx Superheroes in Mainstream Comics
ISBN: 9780816537082 / Angielski / Miękka / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Whether good or evil, beautiful or ugly, smart or downright silly, able-bodied or differently abled, gay or straight, male or female, young or old, Latinx superheroes in mainstream comic book stories are few and far between. It is as if finding the Latinx presence in the DC and Marvel worlds requires activation of superheroic powers. Latinx Superheroes in Mainstream Comics blasts open barriers with a swift kick. It explores deeply and systematically the storyworld spaces inhabited by brown superheroes in mainstream comic book storyworlds: print comic books, animation, TV, and film....
Whether good or evil, beautiful or ugly, smart or downright silly, able-bodied or differently abled, gay or straight, male or female, young or old, La...
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97,90 |
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A Charlie Brown Religion: Exploring the Spiritual Life and Work of Charles M. Schulz
ISBN: 9781496814678 / Angielski / Miękka / 308 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Based on new archival research and original interviews with Charles M. Schulz's family, friends, and colleagues, author Stephen J. Lind offers a new spiritual biography of the life and work of the great comic strip artist. Previously unpublished writings from Schulz will move fans as they begin to see the nuances of the humourist's own complex, intense journey toward understanding God and faith.
Based on new archival research and original interviews with Charles M. Schulz's family, friends, and colleagues, author Stephen J. Lind offers a new s...
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137,09 |
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The Comics of Joe Sacco: Journalism in a Visual World
ISBN: 9781496814708 / Angielski / Miękka / 294 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Addresses the range of Joe Sacco's award-winning work, from his early comics stories as well as his groundbreaking journalism. This edited volume explores Sacco's comics journalism, and features established and emerging scholars from comics studies, cultural studies, geography, literary studies, political science, and communication studies.
Addresses the range of Joe Sacco's award-winning work, from his early comics stories as well as his groundbreaking journalism. This edited volume expl...
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137,09 |
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Ed Brubaker: Conversations
ISBN: 9781496814760 / Angielski / Miękka / 168 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Ed Brubaker has emerged as one of the most popular, significant figures in art comics since the 1990s. Brubaker layers his stories with a keen self-awareness, applying his expansive knowledge of American comic book history to invigorate his work and challenge the dividing line between popular entertainment and high art. This collection of interviews explores the sophisticated artist's work.
Ed Brubaker has emerged as one of the most popular, significant figures in art comics since the 1990s. Brubaker layers his stories with a keen self-aw...
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117,50 |
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Forging the Past: Seth and the Art of Memory
ISBN: 9781496814791 / Angielski / Miękka / 246 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. At once familiar and hard to place, the work of acclaimed Canadian cartoonist Seth evokes a world that no longer exists - and perhaps never existed, except in the panels of long-forgotten comics. Forging the Past offers a comprehensive account of his work and the complex interventions it makes into the past.
At once familiar and hard to place, the work of acclaimed Canadian cartoonist Seth evokes a world that no longer exists - and perhaps never existed, e...
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117,50 |