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Genu
- Omnibus
(Hardcover)
Tommaso Todesca, Alex Franquelli, Giulio Srubek-Tomassy; Illustrated by Aleksandra Fastovets
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R934
Discovery Miles 9 340
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Contributions by Jose Alaniz, Ian Blechschmidt, Paul Fisher Davies,
Zanne Domoney-Lyttle, David Huxley, Lynn Marie Kutch, Julian
Lawrence, Liliana Milkova, Stiliana Milkova, Kim A. Munson, Jason
S. Polley, Paul Sheehan, Clarence Burton Sheffield Jr., and Daniel
Worden From his work on underground comix like Zap and Weirdo, to
his cultural prominence, R. Crumb is one of the most renowned
comics artists in the medium's history. His work, beginning in the
1960s, ranges provocatively and controversially over major moments,
tensions, and ideas in the late twentieth and early twenty-first
centuries, from the counterculture and the emergence of the modern
environmentalist movement, to racial politics and sexual
liberation. While Crumb's early work refined the parodic,
over-the-top, and sexually explicit styles we associate with
underground comix, he also pioneered the comics memoir, through his
own autobiographical and confessional comics, as well as in his
collaborations. More recently, Crumb has turned to long-form,
book-length works, such as his acclaimed Book of Genesis and Kafka.
Over the long arc of his career, Crumb has shaped the conventions
of underground and alternative comics, autobiographical comics, and
the ""graphic novel."" And, through his involvement in music,
animation, and documentary film projects, Crumb is a widely
recognized persona, an artist who has defined the vocation of the
cartoonist in a widely influential way. The Comics of R. Crumb:
Underground in the Art Museum is a groundbreaking collection on the
work of a pioneer of underground comix and a fixture of comics
culture. Ranging from art history and literary studies, to
environmental studies and religious history, the essays included in
this volume cast Crumb's work as formally sophisticated and complex
in its representations of gender, sexuality, race, politics, and
history, while also charting Crumb's role in underground comix and
the ways in which his work has circulated in the art museum.
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Adversaries!
(Hardcover)
Dale Lazarov; Contributions by T.J. Wood, Captain Nikko
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R659
R618
Discovery Miles 6 180
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Kafka wants to clean up kaiju, but not literally! Will a sudden
metamorphosis stand in the way of his dream? With the highest
kaiju-emergence rates in the world, Japan is no stranger to attack
by deadly monsters. Enter the Japan Defense Force, a military
organization tasked with the neutralization of kaiju. Kafka Hibino,
a kaiju-corpse cleanup man, has always dreamed of joining the
force. But when he gets another shot at achieving his childhood
dream, he undergoes an unexpected transformation. How can he fight
kaiju now that he's become one himself?! Kafka hopes to one day
keep his pact with his childhood friend Mina to join the Japan
Defense Force and fight by her side. But while she's out
neutralizing kaiju as Third Division captain, Kafka is stuck
cleaning up the aftermath of her battles. When a sudden rule change
makes Kafka eligible for the Defense Force, he decides to try out
for the squad once more. There's just one problem-he's made the
Defense Force's neutralization list under the code name Kaiju No.
8.
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