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Arresting Development - Comics at the Boundaries of Literature (Paperback): Christopher Pizzino Arresting Development - Comics at the Boundaries of Literature (Paperback)
Christopher Pizzino
R732 Discovery Miles 7 320 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Mainstream narratives of the graphic novel’s development describe the form’s “coming of age,” its maturation from pulp infancy to literary adulthood. In Arresting Development, Christopher Pizzino questions these established narratives, arguing that the medium’s history of censorship and marginalization endures in the minds of its present-day readers and, crucially, its authors. Comics and their writers remain burdened by the stigma of literary illegitimacy and the struggles for status that marked their earlier history. Many graphic novelists are intensely aware of both the medium’s troubled past and their own tenuous status in contemporary culture. Arresting Development presents case studies of four key works—Frank Miller’s Batman: The Dark Knight Returns, Alison Bechdel’s Fun Home, Charles Burns’s Black Hole, and Gilbert Hernandez’s Love and Rockets—exploring how their authors engage the problem of comics’ cultural standing. Pizzino illuminates the separation of high and low culture, art and pulp, and sophisticated appreciation and vulgar consumption as continual influences that determine the limits of literature, the status of readers, and the value of the very act of reading.

Soft City (Hardcover, Main): Chris Ware, Pushwagner Soft City (Hardcover, Main)
Chris Ware, Pushwagner
R1,233 R1,035 Discovery Miles 10 350 Save R198 (16%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Drawing Made Easy - How to Draw from Observation and Imagination (Paperback): Robbie Lee Drawing Made Easy - How to Draw from Observation and Imagination (Paperback)
Robbie Lee
R524 R408 Discovery Miles 4 080 Save R116 (22%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

In the same easy to understand and fun to experience style as Perspective Made Easy, Robbie Lee shows readers, step by step, the basic drawing skills they need to build a successful base on which to build any style of drawing expertise. With a fun robot as their guide, readers will experience immediate success as they follow along with more than 20 step-by-step demonstrations and 30 lessons on topics such as the drawing process, perspective, drawing people, and drawing scenes. The book also broaches the differences in drawing methods: spontaneous drawing, drawing from observation, and drawing from your imagination. The simple language and graphic novel approach makes it all fun and easy.

Nineteenth-Century Women Illustrators and Cartoonists (Hardcover): Joanna Devereux Nineteenth-Century Women Illustrators and Cartoonists (Hardcover)
Joanna Devereux
R2,533 Discovery Miles 25 330 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

Nineteenth-century women illustrators and cartoonists provides an in-depth analysis of fourteen women illustrators of the later nineteenth and early twentieth centuries: Jemima Blackburn, Eleanor Vere Boyle, Marianne North, Amelia Francis Howard-Gibbon, Mary Ellen Edwards, Edith Hume, Alice Barber Stephens, Florence and Adelaide Claxton, Marie Duval, Amy Sawyer, Eleanor Fortescue Brickdale, Pamela Colman Smith and Olive Allen Biller. The chapters consider these women's illustrations in the areas of natural history, periodicals and books, as well as their cartoons and caricatures. Using diverse critical approaches, the volume brings to light the works and lives of these important women illustrators and challenges the hegemony of male illustrators and cartoonists in nineteenth-century visual and print culture. -- .

Animation Writing and Development - From Script Development to Pitch (Paperback): Jean Wright Animation Writing and Development - From Script Development to Pitch (Paperback)
Jean Wright
R1,176 Discovery Miles 11 760 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

The art. The craft. The business. Animation Writing and Development takes students and animation professionals alike through the process of creating original characters, developing a television series, feature, or multimedia project, and writing professional premises, outlines and scripts. It covers the process of developing presentation bibles and pitching original projects as well as ideas for episodes of shows already on the air. Animation Writing and Development includes chapters on animation history, on child development (writing for kids), and on storyboarding. It gives advice on marketing and finding work in the industry. It provides exercises for students as well as checklists for professionals polishing their craft. This is a guide to becoming a good writer as well as a successful one.
* Filled with writing exercises that will challenge your writing limits
* Understand inspiration, idea gathering, and story development
* Tips on how to write for kids and why certain stories appeal to different ages
* The how and why of dialogue-what works, and what doesn't

The Creation of Garfield (Hardcover): Rodney Mccance The Creation of Garfield (Hardcover)
Rodney Mccance
R590 R461 Discovery Miles 4 610 Save R129 (22%) Ships in 5 - 10 working days

Since 1978 Jim Davis' sarcastic, orange tabby cat has entertained millions of people appearing in Newspapers, books, cartoons and even his own films. Why has a lazy, coffee drinking, lasagna loving feline become a worldwide sensation loved by millions of people? From his small-town beginnings in Muncie, Indiana, The History of Garfield explores our relationship with Garfield, Jon and Odie and how Davis' characters have become such an integral part of American pop culture over the decades.

Drew Friedman's Chosen People (Hardcover): Drew Friedman, Merrill Markoe Drew Friedman's Chosen People (Hardcover)
Drew Friedman, Merrill Markoe
R547 R494 Discovery Miles 4 940 Save R53 (10%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days
Politics in the Gutters - American Politicians and Elections in Comic Book Media (Hardcover): Christina M. Knopf Politics in the Gutters - American Politicians and Elections in Comic Book Media (Hardcover)
Christina M. Knopf
R3,874 R3,075 Discovery Miles 30 750 Save R799 (21%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

From the moment Captain America punched Hitler in the jaw, comic books have always been political, and whether it is Marvel's chairman Ike Perlmutter making a campaign contribution to Donald Trump in 2016 or Marvel's character Howard the Duck running for president during America's bicentennial in 1976, the politics of comics have overlapped with the politics of campaigns and governance. Pop culture opens avenues for people to declare their participation in a collective project and helps them to shape their understandings of civic responsibility, leadership, communal history, and present concerns. Politics in the Gutters: American Politicians and Elections in Comic Book Media opens with an examination of campaign comic books used by the likes of Herbert Hoover and Harry S. Truman, follows the rise of political counterculture comix of the 1960s, and continues on to the graphic novel version of the 9/11 Report and the cottage industry of Sarah Palin comics. It ends with a consideration of comparisons to Donald Trump as a supervillain and a look at comics connections to the pandemic and protests that marked the 2020 election year. More than just escapist entertainment, comics offer a popular yet complicated vision of the American political tableau. Politics in the Gutters considers the political myths, moments, and mimeses, in comic books-from nonfiction to science fiction, superhero to supernatural, serious to satirical, golden age to present day-to consider how they represent, re-present, underpin, and/or undermine ideas and ideals about American electoral politics.

Jewish Comics and Graphic Narratives - A Critical Guide (Paperback): Matt Reingold Jewish Comics and Graphic Narratives - A Critical Guide (Paperback)
Matt Reingold
R637 Discovery Miles 6 370 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

The most up-to-date critical guide mapping the history, impact, key critical issues, and seminal texts of the genre, Jewish Comics and Graphic Narratives interrogates what makes a work a "Jewish graphic narrative", and explores the form's diverse facets to orient readers to the richness and complexity of Jewish graphic storytelling. Accessible but comprehensive and in an easy-to-navigate format, the book covers such topics as: - The history of the genre in the US and Israel - and its relationship to superheroes, Underground Comix, and Jewish literature - Social and cultural discussions surrounding the legitimization of graphic representation as sites of trauma, understandings of gender, mixed-media in Jewish graphic novels, and the study of these works in the classroom - Critical explorations of graphic narratives about the Holocaust, Israel, the diasporic experience, Judaism, and autobiography and memoir - The works of Will Eisner, Ilana Zeffren, James Sturm, Joann Sfar, JT Waldman, Michel Kichka, Sarah Glidden, Rutu Modan, and Art Spiegelman and such narratives as X Men, Anne Frank's Diary, and Maus Jewish Comics and Graphic Novels includes an appendix of relevant works sorted by genre, a glossary of crucial critical terms, and close readings of key texts to help students and readers develop their understanding of the genre and pursue independent study.

Make Comics Like the Pros (Paperback): G Pak Make Comics Like the Pros (Paperback)
G Pak
R626 R425 Discovery Miles 4 250 Save R201 (32%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

A step-by-step guide to all aspects of comic book creation--from conceptualization to early drafts to marketing and promotion--written by two of the industry's most seasoned and successful pros.
Every aspiring comic book creator wants to know: what separates the beloved comics of major publishers like Marvel, DC, Valiant, and Image from all the rest? Fan-favorite comic book writers Greg Pak and Fred Van Lente reveal the secrets of comics' top talents in "Make Comics Like the Pros." The authors take readers step by step through the comics creation process from idea to finished work, and along the way offer examples and insights from their own careers as well as their collaborators'. Not only that, but Pak and Van Lente also join forces with Eisner Award-winning cartoonist Colleen Coover to produce an original comic inside the book With its unprecedented level of insider access, "Make Comics Like the Pros" gives comic book hopefuls the tools they need to reach the next level of sequential arts stardom.

Fastner and Larson, v. 1 - Architects of Fantasy (Paperback): Steve Fastner, Rich Larson Fastner and Larson, v. 1 - Architects of Fantasy (Paperback)
Steve Fastner, Rich Larson
R226 Discovery Miles 2 260 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

For over 20 years, the team of Steve Fastner and Rich Larson have created some of the most imaginative and fantastic images in the realm of fantasy art. Their unique style and formidable arsenal of airbrush techniques have made them two of the most sought-after artists working today. From rough pencil sketches up to the final finished art, you'll see how fantasy becomes reality.

Digital Manga (Paperback): Ben Krefta Digital Manga (Paperback)
Ben Krefta
R427 R243 Discovery Miles 2 430 Save R184 (43%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

A stylish digital colouring manual for artists working on anime, manga, and game characters. Packed with step-by-step projects that demonstrate character development, colour, and rendering styles. Artists are shown how to combine their own hand-drawn artwork with latest graphics software to create fully rendered, professional-looking artwork.

Dragon Ball Culture Volume 1 - Origin (Chinese, English, Japanese, Hardcover): Derek Padula Dragon Ball Culture Volume 1 - Origin (Chinese, English, Japanese, Hardcover)
Derek Padula
R678 R598 Discovery Miles 5 980 Save R80 (12%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Beatnik Buenos Aires (Paperback): Diego Arandojo Beatnik Buenos Aires (Paperback)
Diego Arandojo; Illustrated by Facundo Percio
R601 R487 Discovery Miles 4 870 Save R114 (19%) Ships in 9 - 15 working days
If Mr. Brunelle Were Drawn By... (Paperback): Robert Waldo Brunelle If Mr. Brunelle Were Drawn By... (Paperback)
Robert Waldo Brunelle
R427 Discovery Miles 4 270 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Wayne Shelton Vol.4: the Survivor (Paperback): Thierry Cailleteau Wayne Shelton Vol.4: the Survivor (Paperback)
Thierry Cailleteau; Contributions by Christian Denayer
R242 R198 Discovery Miles 1 980 Save R44 (18%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

During a garden party in California, Shelton is approached by a clearly determined individual. The man tells him that he is there on behalf of Wayne's son, who apparently tracked down one Rod Hooker. The thing is, Sergeant Hooker once served under Shelton in Vietnam, on a mission that ended in betrayal and carnage. The hunt is on for our trouble shooter for hire, although there is one problem: he's never had any children...

Jeff Smith - Conversations (Paperback): Frederick Luis Aldama Jeff Smith - Conversations (Paperback)
Frederick Luis Aldama
R739 R582 Discovery Miles 5 820 Save R157 (21%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

First with his magisterial fantasy Bone to his mind-bending, time-warping sci-fi noir RASL, Paleolithic-Set fantasy Tuki: Save the Humans, arthouse-styled superheroic miniSeries Shazam!, and his latest children's book Smiley's Dream Book, Jeff Smith (b. 1960) has made an indelible mark on the comics industry. As a child, Smith was drawn to Charles Schulz's Peanuts, Carl Barks's Donald Duck, and Walt Kelly's Pogo, and he began the daily practice of drawing his own stories. After writing his regular strip Thorn for The Ohio State University's student paper, Smith worked in animation before creating, writing, and illustrating his runaway success, Bone. A comedic fantasy epic, Bone focuses on the Bone cousins, white, bald cartoon characters run out of their hometown, lost in a distant, mysterious valley. The self-published Series ran from 1991 to 2004 and won numerous awards, including ten Eisner Awards. This career-spanning collection of interviews, ranging from 1999 to 2017, enables readers to follow along with Smith's development as an independent creator, writer, and illustrator.

Superhero Culture Wars - Politics, Marketing, and Social Justice in Marvel Comics (Paperback): Monica Flegel, Judith Leggatt Superhero Culture Wars - Politics, Marketing, and Social Justice in Marvel Comics (Paperback)
Monica Flegel, Judith Leggatt
R765 Discovery Miles 7 650 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

The reactionary Comicsgate campaign against alleged "forced" diversity in superhero comics revealed the extent to which comics have become a key battleground in America's Culture Wars. In the first in-depth scholarly study of Marvel Comics' most recent engagement with progressive politics, Superhero Culture Wars explores how the drive towards greater diversity among its characters and creators has interacted with the company's commercial marketing and its traditional fan base. Along the way the book covers such topics as: * Major characters such as Miles Morales's Spider-man, Kamala Khan's Ms. Marvel, Jane Foster's Thor, Sam Wilson's Captain America and the Secret Empire series' turncoat Captain America * Creators such as G. Willow Wilson, Jason Aaron, Nick Spencer and Michael Bendis * Marketing, the Marvel Universe, and online fan culture Superhero Culture Wars demonstrates how the marketing of Marvel comics as politically progressive has both indelibly shaped its in-world universe and characters, and led to conflicts between its corporate interests, its creators, and it audience.

Breaking the Frames - Populism and Prestige in Comics Studies (Paperback): Marc Singer Breaking the Frames - Populism and Prestige in Comics Studies (Paperback)
Marc Singer
R838 Discovery Miles 8 380 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

A CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title, 2019 Comics studies has reached a crossroads. Graphic novels have never received more attention and legitimation from scholars, but new canons and new critical discourses have created tensions within a field built on the populist rhetoric of cultural studies. As a result, comics studies has begun to cleave into distinct camps-based primarily in cultural or literary studies-that attempt to dictate the boundaries of the discipline or else resist disciplinarity itself. The consequence is a growing disconnect in the ways that comics scholars talk to each other-or, more frequently, do not talk to each other or even acknowledge each other's work. Breaking the Frames: Populism and Prestige in Comics Studies surveys the current state of comics scholarship, interrogating its dominant schools, questioning their mutual estrangement, and challenging their propensity to champion the comics they study. Marc Singer advocates for greater disciplinary diversity and methodological rigor in comics studies, making the case for a field that can embrace more critical and oppositional perspectives. Working through extended readings of some of the most acclaimed comics creators-including Marjane Satrapi, Alan Moore, Kyle Baker, and Chris Ware-Singer demonstrates how comics studies can break out of the celebratory frameworks and restrictive canons that currently define the field to produce new scholarship that expands our understanding of comics and their critics.

W. E. B. Du Bois Souls of Black Folk - A Graphic Interpretation (Hardcover): W. E. B Du Bois, Paul Peart-Smith W. E. B. Du Bois Souls of Black Folk - A Graphic Interpretation (Hardcover)
W. E. B Du Bois, Paul Peart-Smith; Edited by Paul Buhle, Herb Boyd; Jonathan Scott Holloway
R1,497 Discovery Miles 14 970 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Art of Drag (Hardcover): Jake Hall The Art of Drag (Hardcover)
Jake Hall; Illustrated by Helen Li, Sofie Birkin, Jasjyot Singh Hans 1
R540 R432 Discovery Miles 4 320 Save R108 (20%) Ships in 5 - 10 working days

Drag has been around for thousands of years. A fabulous mix of fashion, theatre, gender and politics all come together to create the show-stopping entertainment millions love today. In this comprehensive work, Jake Hall delves into its ancient beginnings, to the present day and beyond. Vibrant illustrations enhance a rich history that ranges from Kabuki theatre to Shakespeare, and the revolutionary Stonewall riots to the still-thriving New York ballroom scene. This is a must-have guide to the wonderful world of Drag.

Cartoons For Victory (Hardcover): Warren Bernard Cartoons For Victory (Hardcover)
Warren Bernard; Introduction by Bob Dole
R1,022 R924 Discovery Miles 9 240 Save R98 (10%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Superman, Donald Duck, Mickey Mouse and others helped fight World War II via comic books and strips, single-panel and editorial cartoons, and even ads. Cartoons for Victory showcases wartime work by cartoonists such as Charles Addams (The Addams Family), Harold Gray (Little Orphan Annie), Harvey Kurtzman (Mad magazine), Will Eisner, and many others. Most of the cartoons and comics in this book have not been seen since their first publication. Editor Bernard gathered them over years of unstinting research through private collections and the obscure holdings of public sources. This is the most comprehensive collection ever assembled of World War II era cartoons, reflecting the indefatigable spirit of the time."

Superhero Thought Experiments - Comic Book Philosophy (Paperback): Chris Gavaler, Nathaniel Goldberg Superhero Thought Experiments - Comic Book Philosophy (Paperback)
Chris Gavaler, Nathaniel Goldberg
R629 Discovery Miles 6 290 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Examining the deep philosophical topics addressed in superhero comics, authors Gavaler and Goldberg read plot lines for the complex thought experiments they contain and analyze their implications as if the comic authors were philosophers. Reading superhero comic books through a philosophical lens reveals how they experiment with complex issues of morality, metaphysics, meaning, and medium. Given comics' ubiquity and influence directly on (especially young) readers-and indirectly on consumers of superhero movies and video games-understanding these deeper meanings is in many ways essential to understanding contemporary popular culture. The result is an entertaining and enlightening look at superhero dilemmas.

Beyond Narrative - Exploring Narrative Liminality and Its Cultural Work (Paperback): Sebastian M. Herrmann, Katja Kanzler,... Beyond Narrative - Exploring Narrative Liminality and Its Cultural Work (Paperback)
Sebastian M. Herrmann, Katja Kanzler, Stefan Schubert
R1,297 Discovery Miles 12 970 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This book calls for an investigation of the "borderlands of narrativity" the complex and culturally productive area where the symbolic form of narrative meets other symbolic logics, such as data(base), play, spectacle, or ritual. It opens up a conversation about the "beyond" of narrative, about the myriad constellations in which narrativity interlaces with, rubs against, or morphs into the principles of other forms. To conceptualise these borderlands, the book introduces the notion of "narrative liminality", which the 16 articles utilize to engage literature, popular culture, digital technology, historical artifacts, and other kinds of texts from a time span of close to 200 years.

A Sky Longing For Memories - The Art of Makoto Shinkai (Paperback): Makoto Shinkai A Sky Longing For Memories - The Art of Makoto Shinkai (Paperback)
Makoto Shinkai
R938 R773 Discovery Miles 7 730 Save R165 (18%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
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