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Graphic Novels: Everything You Need to Know

6 reviews
Paul Gravett

Collins Design, 2005

Comic Lit Goes Legit!
Following his success of Manga: Sixty Years of Japanese Comics with another affirmative and considered guide to comics, Gravett now focuses on the phoenix-like return of the "Graphic Novel" that failed to live up to expectations in the early '90s. However, time has moved on and this book reveals how the medium has evolved dramatically over the past ten years. Gravett's masterstroke is to ...

Great British Comics: Celebrating a Century of Ripping Yarns and Wizard Wheezes

1 review
Paul Gravett, Peter Stanbury

Aurum Press, 2006

Get out your cheaters for this across the pond funfest
This colorful volume reminds me of nothing so much as an "across the pond" version of "Comix", Les Daniels' early-70s survey of the then-virgin territory of American funny books. As in Daniels' book, Gravett and Stanbury lump together a dizzying variety of different types of British comics, ranging from hoary old classics to the most ephemeral of "countercultural" modern works. The comics are ...

Holy Sh*t!: The World's Weirdest Comic Books
Paul Gravett, Peter Stanbury

St. Martin's Press, 2008

You won't believe your eyes... ...when you peek inside Holy Sh*t! at some of the wildest, most depraved stories ever told. These outrageous comics are guaranteed to offend and amuse! Some of the rare treasures you will encounter are Presidents who become muscle-bound superheroes, cavemen who fight giant tabby cats, and a peasant-girl who fervently worships the swastika. But . . . are you ready for Russia's busty bombshell Octobriana? ...

Cult Fiction: Art & Comics
Paul Gravett, Laylah Ali, ...

Hayward Gallery Publishing, 2007

The comic book, the cartoon strip and the single-panel gag are recurring motifs in twentieth-century art, providing a platform for narrative, political critique, graphic clarity, and, of course, fun. Cult Fiction: Art & Comics examines the work of artists who produce comics and cartoons as part of their practice, as well as those who employ the language of the comic in their work, borrowing from stylistic sources across high and low culture. ...

The Mammoth Book of Best Crime Comics (Mammoth Book of)

1 review
Paul Gravett

Running Press, 2008

Great!
This is the third Mammoth comics volumes--the first two focusing on war & horror. Both of those earlier volumes were hampered, although not crippled, by the refusals of EC, DC, Marvel/Atlas & Warren to allow reprints of their stories (although Warren tales did appear in the War volume). However this volume focuses on crime, a genre neither DC or Marvel/Atlas did much with, Warren only produced ...

Seriously funny business: Paul Gravett introduces the art of cartooning--and its curious power.(KEYNOTE): An ...
Paul Gravett

Thomson Gale, 2006

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Manga: 60 Years of Japanese Comics

6 reviews
Paul Gravett

Collins Design, 2004

Sumptuous Artwork, Thoughtful Analysis
"Manga" is a first-rate introduction and analysis of one of the world's most significant new forms of art - Japanese comics. The book not only has beautiful artwork, much of it in full color, but also glossy pages in an oversize format. Gravett covers the visual history of manga from Osamu Tezuka to modern European comics that have been influenced by manga. There are chapters devoted to boys' ...

The Leather Nun
Paul Gravett, Peter Stanbury

Aurum Press Ltd, 2008

From leather nuns to surreal Japanese baseball dramas, you won't believe your eyes when you look inside The Leather Nun and Other Incredibly Strange Comics . From the creators of Graphic Novels and Great British Comics, this is a delirious collection of the 50 most weird and wonderful comics ever published. Notorious comic book brainiacs Paul Gravett and Peter Stanbury have scoured the world to bring together the strangest comics to be ...

Graphic Novels
Paul Gravett

Harper Design Intl, 2005

Passages Number 21, Autumn 1996 - Special Comics Issue
Paul Gravett, Benoit Peeters, ...

Arts Council of Switzerland, 1996

Superb journal includes articles on Topffer and eight short stips created especially for this issue.

Escape Magazine
Alan Moore, Neil Gaiman, ...

Escape/Titan, 1983

Excellent anthology that featured early works of some of the greatest comic creators today, including Neil Gaiman, Alan Moore, Dave Mckean, Eddie Campbell and the list goes on. Featured comics, interviews and articles. Covered a wide range of styles and genres, but stayed true to it independant nature. As per Wikipedia: Escape Magazine was a landmark British comic strip magazine founded and edited by Paul Gravett and Peter Stanbury. Nineteen ...

Manga
Paul Gravett

Onlybook S.L., 2004

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