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Author
Publisher
Drawn and Quarterly
Pub. Date
2014.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
241 pages : chiefly illustrations, portrait ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
The Hospital Suite is a landmark work by the celebrated cartoonist and small-press legend John Porcellino--an autobiographical collection detailing his struggles with illness in the 1990s and early 2000s. In 1997, John began to have severe stomach pain. He soon found out he needed emergency surgery to remove a benign tumor from his small intestine. In the wake of the surgery, he had numerous health complications that led to a flare-up of his preexisting...
62) Stan Lee: a life
Author
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield
Pub. Date
[2022]
Edition
Centennial edition.
Physical Desc
xiii, 224 pages, 20 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
This first true biography of Stan Lee is an eye-opening look at a pop culture visionary. This book traces Lee's life-from his Depression-era childhood to his years as a teen editor and ultimately to his triumphs as the genius behind some of the most beloved characters in pop culture history, including Spider-Man, Iron Man, Hulk, and Thor.
Author
Publisher
Catapult/Black Balloon
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
291 pages : chiefly illustrations ; 26 cm
Language
English
Description
"Flying couch tells the stories of three unforgettable women. Amy Kurzweil weaves her own coming-of-age as a young Jewish artist into the narrative of her mother, a psychologist, and Bubbe, her grandmother, a World War II survivor who escaped from the Warsaw Ghetto by disguising herself as a gentile. The voices and histories of these wise, hilarious, and very different women create a portrait not only of what it means to be part of a family, but also...
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2016]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
viii, 545 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
A biography of the creator of the wildly popular Krazy Kat comic describes how the 19th-century New Orleans native hid his African-American racial identity in order to advance his art and career.
Author
Series
Publisher
The Pennsylvania State University Press
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
306 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
"In this graphic novel, the author documents his reconciliation with his father, dying of emphysema, as he cares for him in hospice"--Provided by publisher.
Author
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
xiv, 229 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Batchelor offers an eye-opening look at the life of Stan Lee, the man who created (with talented artists) many of history's most legendary characters. Becoming the editor of Marvel Comics as a teenager, and toiling in the industry for decades, Lee threw caution to the wind and went for broke, co-creating the Fantastic Four, Spider-Man, Hulk, Iron Man, the X-Men, the Avengers, and others in a creative flurry that revolutionized comic books for generations...
Author
Publisher
It Books
Pub. Date
[2010]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
226 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
Al Jaffee's work has enlivened the pages of MAD magazine since 1955 and made him a cultural icon, but the story of his life has yet to be told. Six-year-old Jaffee was separated from his father, uprooted from his home in Savannah, Georgia, and transplanted by his mother to a shtetl in Lithuania, a world of kerosene lamps, outhouses, physical abuse, and near starvation. He was rescued by his father, returned to America, taken back yet again by his...
Author
Publisher
New Harvest, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
xx, 218 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Widely considered to be the pantheon of single-panel cartooning, The New Yorker cartoonists' styles are richly varied, and their personal stories are surprising. Gehr's book features fascinating biographical profiles of such artists as Gahan Wilson, Sam Gross, Roz Chast, Lee Lorenz, and Edward Koren. Along with a dozen such profiles, Gehr provides a brief history of The New Yorker cartoon itself, touching on the lives and work of earlier illustrating...
Author
Publisher
Tin House
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First US edition.
Physical Desc
156 pages : chiefly color illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"During Will Betke-Brunswick's sophomore year of college, their beloved mother, Elizabeth, is diagnosed with an aggressive form of cancer. They only have ten more months together, which Will documents in evocative two-color illustrations. But as we follow Will and their mom through chemo and hospital visits, their time together is buoyed by laughter, jigsaw puzzles, modern art, and vegan BLTs. In a delightful twist, Will portrays their family as penguins,...
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
252 pages : illustrations (mostly color) ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"Edward Sorel gives us an unforgettable self-portrait: a poor Depression-era childhood in the Bronx (surrounded by loving Romanian-immigrant grandparents and a clan of mostly left-leaning aunts and uncles); his first stabs at drawing when pneumonia kept him out of school at the age of eight; his time as a student at New York's famed High School of Music & Art; the scrappy early days of Push Pin Studios, founded with fellow Cooper Union alums Milton...
Author
Publisher
Graphix, an imprint of Scholastic
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
226 pages : chiefly illustrations (chiefly color) ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
"When Jarrett J. Krosoczka was in high school, he was part of a program that sent students to be counselors at a camp for seriously ill kids and their families. Going into it, Jarrett was worried: Wouldn't it be depressing, to be around kids facing such a serious struggle? Wouldn't it be grim? But instead of the shadow of death, Jarrett found something else at Camp Sunshine: the hope and determination that gets people through the most troubled of...
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xv, 176 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
Thirteen prominent cartoonists discuss their creative processes and the experiences and influences that led to their success in one of today's most vibrant art forms. Each interview is followed by an original graphic short on the common theme of "the city."
Author
Publisher
Liveright Publishing Corporation
Pub. Date
[2022]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xii, 319 pages : chiefly black and white illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Graphic artist Rhea Ewing celebrates the incredible diversity of experiences within the transgender community with this vibrant and revealing debut. As Rhea Ewing neared college graduation in 2012, they became consumed by the question: What is gender? This obsession sparked a quest in their quiet Midwest town, where they anxiously approached both friends and strangers for interviews to turn into comics. A decade later, their project has exploded into...
Author
Publisher
Fantagraphics Books
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
642 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Harvey Kurtzman created Mad, and Mad revolutionized humor in America. Kurtzman was the original editor, artist, and sole writer of Mad, one of the greatest publishing successes of the 20th century. But how did Kurtzman invent Mad, and why did he leave it shortly after it burst, nova-like, onto the American scene? For this heavily researched biography, Bill Schelly conducted new interviews with Kurtzman's colleagues, friends and family, including Hugh...
Author
Publisher
Portfolio/Penguin
Pub. Date
[2013]
Physical Desc
248 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Dilbert creator Scott Adams offers his most personal book ever -- a funny memoir of his many failures and what they eventually taught him about success. How do you go from hapless office worker to world-famous cartoonist and bestselling author in just a few years? No career guide can answer that, and not even Scott Adams (who actually did it) can give you a road map that works for everyone. But there's a lot to learn from his personal story, and...
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
[2014]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
285 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm
Language
English
Description
"Memoir in cartoons by the longtime cartoon editor of The New Yorker. People tell Bob Mankoff that as the cartoon editor of The New Yorker he has the best job in the world. Never one to beat around the bush, he explains to us, in the opening of this singular, delightfully eccentric book, that because he is also a cartoonist at the magazine he actually has two of the best jobs in the world. With the help of myriad images and his funniest, most beloved...
Author
Publisher
Crown
Pub. Date
[2021]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
394 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"Stan Lee--born Stanley Martin Lieber in 1922--is one of the most beloved and influential entertainers to emerge from the twentieth century. He served as editor in chief of Marvel Comics for three decades and, in that time, launched more pieces of internationally recognizable intellectual property than anyone other than Walt Disney: Spider-Man, the Avengers, the X-Men, Black Panther, the Incredible Hulk, Iron Man, Thor...the list seems to never end....
Author
Publisher
Zest Books
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
255 pages : chiefly illustrations ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
Eschewing female stereotypes throughout her early years and failing to gain acceptance on the boys' baseball team, Liz learns to embrace her own views on gender as she comes of age, in an anecdotal graphic novel memoir.
Author
Publisher
Ten Speed Graphic, an imprint of Ten Speed Press
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
201 pages : chiefly color illustrations ; 27 cm
Language
English
Description
"The graphic novel biography of the legendary Stan Lee, co-creator of many of Marvel's beloved superheroes."--
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