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Books > Arts & Architecture > Industrial / commercial art & design > Illustration & commercial art > Comic book & cartoon art
Winner, 2021 Katherine Singer Kovacs Book Award, given by the
Society for Cinema and Media Studies Winner, 2021 Will Eisner Comic
Industry Awards for Best Academic/Scholarly Work Honorable Mention,
2021 Harry Shaw and Katrina Hazzard-Donald Award for Outstanding
Work in African-American Popular Culture Studies, given by the
Popular Culture Association Winner, 2020 Charles Hatfield Book
Prize, given by the Comic Studies Society Traces the history of
racial caricature and the ways that Black cartoonists have turned
this visual grammar on its head Revealing the long aesthetic
tradition of African American cartoonists who have made use of
racist caricature as a black diasporic art practice, Rebecca Wanzo
demonstrates how these artists have resisted histories of visual
imperialism and their legacies. Moving beyond binaries of positive
and negative representation, many black cartoonists have used
caricatures to criticize constructions of ideal citizenship in the
United States, as well as the alienation of African Americans from
such imaginaries. The Content of Our Caricature urges readers to
recognize how the wide circulation of comic and cartoon art
contributes to a common language of both national belonging and
exclusion in the United States. Historically, white artists have
rendered white caricatures as virtuous representations of American
identity, while their caricatures of African Americans are excluded
from these kinds of idealized discourses. Employing a rich
illustration program of color and black-and-white reproductions,
Wanzo explores the works of artists such as Sam Milai, Larry
Fuller, Richard "Grass" Green, Brumsic Brandon Jr., Jennifer Crute,
Aaron McGruder, Kyle Baker, Ollie Harrington, and George Herriman,
all of whom negotiate and navigate this troublesome history of
caricature. The Content of Our Caricature arrives at a gateway to
understanding how a visual grammar of citizenship, and hence
American identity itself, has been constructed.
Comic empires is a unique collection of new research exploring the
relationship between imperialism and political cartoons,
caricature, and satirical art. Edited by leading scholars across
both fields (and with contributions from contexts as diverse as
Egypt, Australia, the United States, and China, as well as Europe)
the volume provides new perspectives on well-known events, and
illuminates little-known players in the 'great game' of empire in
modern times. Some of the finest comic art of the period is
deployed as evidence, and examined seriously, in its own right, for
the first time. Accessible to students of history at all levels,
Comic empires is a major addition to the world-leading 'Studies in
Imperialism' series, as well as standing alone as an innovative and
significant contribution to the ever-growing international field of
comics studies. -- .
Established how-to-draw author and artist J.C. Amberlyn's guide to
drawing adorable Japanese-style characters and their chibi
sidekicks in all the popular manga genres - shojo; shounen; magical
girls; fantasy; mecha; school life; and horror. Bring your
imagination to life. In her second manga book, best-selling author
J.C. Amberlyn focuses on favorite manga archetype characters, with
a fun and lively how-to-draw book aimed at beginners. Every genre
of manga has its typical characters - plucky hero and heroine;
school boys and girls; funny friend/sidekick; serious warrior;
young innocent; bishounen; genki girls; chibis; chibi animals; cat
girls/cat boys; magical girls; adorable animals; strong/scary
animals; gothic characters; fantasy characters - and they are all
here along with the step-by-step drawing instructions needed to
give even beginners the direction they need to create the favorite
characters they can't get enough of. A final chapter on
backgrounds, scenery, and the environment will further give readers
the information they need to pull everything together and create
their own manga characters and the worlds they live in. Includes 23
step-by-step demonstrations and exercises. J.C. Amberlyn takes you
through everything you need to know to create your favorite manga
characters from Japanese comics or design your own. Includes
in-depth instruction on character types, drawing the head and face,
expressions, bodies and gestures, settings, scenes and samples.
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