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| | Visible Ink Press : Titles : The Superhero Book: The Ultimate Encyclopedia of Comic-Book Icons and Hollywood Heroes |
 | | In addition to his post as associate editor of the U.S.-based magazine, Comic Book Artist, which is dedicated to the historic representation of comic-book characters, Roach actively illustrates for several UK companies, including 2000 AD, Panini, and Marvel. | | | Almost 300 entries cover the best-loved and historically significant comic book, movie, television, and novel superheroesmainstream and counterculture, famous and forgotten, best and worstincluding classics like Green Lantern and Plastic Man, cult favorites like the Rocketeer and Madman, and timeless entities like the XMen. | | | Since then hes fulfilled it by writing on comic books, cartoons, and other popular culture for such outlets as the Village Voice, Yahoo! |
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http://www.visibleink.com/title.php?id=58
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| | Encyclopedia: Comic book |
| | A comic book is a magazine or book containing the sequential art in the form of a narrative. | | | The term alternative comics is one of several labels applied to a range of comic books, graphic novels, and allied forms that have appeared since about 1980, in the wake of the underground comix movement of the late 1960s and early 70s. | | | The earliest comic books were simply collections of comic strips that had originally been printed in newspapers. |
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http://www.nationmaster.com/encyclopedia/Comic-book
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| | Comics - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Whilst almost all comics art is in some sense abbreviated, and also whilst every artist who has produced comics work brings their own individual approach to bear, some broader art styles have been identified. | | | Comics artists will generally sketch a drawing in pencil before going over the drawing again in ink, using either a pen or a brush. | | | Comics (or, less common, sequential art) is a form of visual art consisting of images which are commonly combined with text, often in the form of speech balloons or image captions. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comics
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| | Comic book - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | A comic book is a magazine or book containing sequential art in the form of a narrative. | | | Comics published after World War II in 1945 are sometimes refered to being from the Atomic Age (refering to the dropping of the atomic bomb), and books published after Nov. 1961 are sometimes refered to as being from the Marvel Age (refering to the advent of Marvel Comics). | | | The history of the comic book in the United States is split into several ages or historical eras: The Platinum Age, The Golden Age, The Silver Age, The Bronze Age, and The Modern Age. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comic_books
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| | opera. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001 |
| | It had both lofty and comic strains, which were in time separated into distinct genres, the opera seria (serious opera) and the opera buffa (comic opera). | | | Although best known as the composer of the oratorio Messiah, Handel spent most of his musical energy between 1705 and 1738 in composing operas. | | | Operas by the Americans Douglas Moore and Carlisle Floyd used American history, legend, and folk music, as reflected in Moore’s The Ballad of Baby Doe (1956) and Floyd’s Susannah (1955). |
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http://www.bartleby.com/65/op/opera.html
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| | Blueberry (comic) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Blueberry is a French language comic strip created by Jean-Michel Charlier and Jean "Mœbius" Giraud. | | | It arguably did not stay true to action-based, gritty comic, but rather featured an esoteric, trippy presentation of shamanism which appealed to people with drug experiences. | | | Blueberry has its roots in Giraud's earlier Western-themed works such as Frank et Jeremie, which was drawn for Far West magazine when he was only 18, and Jerry Spring, a 1961 strip that appeared in five issues of Spirou. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blueberry_(comic)
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| | Amazon.co.uk: Comic Book Encyclopedia: Books |
| | A lavishly illustrated collection of top comics published since the 1930s provides detailed information on key characters, graphic novels, writers, artists, and the universes of prominent series, in a single-volume reference for both novice collectors and long-time aficionados. | | | Buy Comic Book Encyclopedia with Men of Tomorrow: Geeks, Gangsters, and the Birth o... | | | Subjects > Comics & Graphic Novels > General |
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http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/0060538163
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| | The Publication and Formats of Comics, Graphic Novels, and Tankobon by Chris Couch |
| | As in Europe, Japanese comic art is primarily published in weekly or monthly magazines that appeal to specialized audiences, with continued stories that are eventually collected in books that present entire stories appearing under the names of a single creator, or as the creations of a writer and artist. | | | The growing dominance of long-form works of comic art-graphic novels-is frequently heralded as an indication of the aesthetic and literary development of the comic art medium in the United States.(6) Such a development might equally be viewed as a convergence of related traditions of comic art in the United States, Europe, and Japan. | | | Comic strips are associated with journalism, family readership, and publication in books and sale in bookstores. |
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http://www.imageandnarrative.be/narratology/chriscouch.htm
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| | BookPage Nonfiction Review: Comic Book Encyclopedia |
| | From Archie to X-Men, from R. Crumb to Art Spiegelman, you'll find long-lost histories and little-known details about all the important heroes, villains, artists and writers in the comics world. | | | Open the book to any page, and KAPOW!, you'll find glossy, gorgeously reproduced artwork and a spirited mini-essay on some aspect of comics. | | | There are sections on underground comics (with nods to Mad's Harvey Kurtzman and Basil Wolverton and Zap's Robert Crumb) and graphic novels (including Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons' seminal Watchmen and Frank Miller's unparalleled Batman epic The Dark Knight Returns) that whet the reader's appetite and provide a roadmap for further exploration. |
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http://www.bookpage.com/0412bp/nonfiction/comics_encyclopedia.html
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| | Warrior (comic) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | DC Comics editor Len Wein was one regular reader and it was thanks to Warrior that he hired Alan Moore to write Swamp Thing, beginning the "British invasion" of American comics during the 1980s. | | | Many leading comic creators from the UK, including Warren Ellis, had fan letters published in Warrior and refer to it as their inspiration to work in the medium. | | | Warrior was a British anthology comic book that ran for 26 issues between March 1982 and January 1985. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warrior_(comic)
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| | Welcome to Comic-Con International: San Diego! |
| | Comic-Con International is a nonprofit educational organization dedicated to creating awareness of, and appreciation for, comics and related popular art forms, primarily through the presentation of conventions and events that celebrate the historic and ongoing contribution of comics to art and culture. |
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| | Pilote comic magazine |
| | The magazine was an initiative of comics writers, René Goscinny and Jean-Michel Charlier, artist Albert Uderzo and Jean Hébrard. | | | Several radioshows were adapted for comics, such as 'Bison Noir' (art Lucien Nortier) and 'Zappy Max' (art by Maurice Tillieux and later Jean-Louis Deveaux). | | | See thousands of comic artists in the Lambiek |
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| | Comic Art Magazine - and more |
| | Comic Art Magazine - An enchanting exhibition of the space art of paradise valley artists robert mccall is coming to the arizona museum for youth in mesa.At its most vapid, talk about contemporary art is marketing talk, hem-length talk, trend talk. | | | Comic Art Magazine - Of the missoulian it s called, quite simply, the art wall.really, though, it s a fence that lines the. | | | Art >> Comic Art For Sale >> Comic Art Magazine |
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http://www.art617.com/Comic-Art-Magazine.html
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| | The world's top Fan Pages websites |
| | A few artists use paint, pastel or pencil in their comics, and an increasing number use computer-based drawing tools. | | | The images in printed comics most often originate as pen and ink drawings, but there are exceptions. | | | This article is about comics, the art form. |
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http://dirs.org/dir-wiki.cfm/Top/Arts/Comics/Fan_Pages
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| | Autarcic |
| | Applied in a proper way, this piece of linguistic theory can be a weapon for those artists amongst you who have been told once or often that their work is no comic art. | | | There are lots of aspects of alternative comics that are worth exploring, especially because so little has been said about most representatives, about their purposes, their influence on the mainstream, the history and lots of other interesting topics. | | | The way of defining terms in the comics theory still works with a method called componential analysis, which means that the meaning of a term is split up in parts to make up a definition of all members belonging to this term. |
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http://fuzzy.arts.kuleuven.ac.be/users/gert.meesters/Autarcic.html
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| | COMICON.com: Does anyone buy original european comic art? and other international comic questions |
| | By the way, since the european artist doesn't produce as many pages as the american artist, you can expect to pay more for european comic art. | | | But the best solution to buy european original comic art is to approach the author directly. | | | But european comic albums (and portuguese comic editions) are sold in every bookshop (that's one of the main diferences regarding the U.S. market). |
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http://www.comicon.com/cgi-bin/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic&f=2&t=002586
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| | The Humanoids |
| | Das Pastoras is a tenured comic book artist published in Spain-based anthologies since 1981. | | | European comic book writers are as good novelists as their prose-based cousins. | | | Artist Zoran Janjetov was born in Yugoslavia and worked studied fine arts and painting. |
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http://www.comicbookbin.com/euro02.html
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| | Amazon.com: European Comics in English Translation: A Descriptive Sourcebook: Books: Randall W. Scott |
| | This is a reference work, arranged by artist or writer, to European comics from the last quarter of the twentieth century that have been translated from any European language into English. | | | According to Scott, a comic art bibliographer at the Michigan State University Libraries and the author of Comics Librarianship: A Handbook (McFarland, 1990), the founding of the French magazine Metal Hurlant in 1975 revolutionized European comic writing and art. | | | Entries are arranged by writer or artist of each "album" (a term Scott prefers to "graphic novel" or "book-length comic") and provide publication information, synopses, and some citations to reviews. |
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http://pdxbooks.com/send/s1/0786412054
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| | Jean Giraud/Moebius |
| | He had some formal training at the Institute of Applied Art, but his real school was the French comic medium. | | | Soon Moebius art was turning up on the covers of science fiction paperbacks, in the French equivalent of underground comics (Le petit Mickey, Le Bandard Fou and L'Echo des Savanes), and then, in early 1975, as one of the founding members of Les Humanoides Associes (the others were Jean-Pierre Dionnet, Philippe Druillet, and Farkas. | | | French comics of the fifties through the seventies were usually weekly publications with a wide variety of material, but usually only a couple of pages were devoted to each strip. |
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http://www.bpib.com/illustrat/giraud.htm
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| | Comic book - Free Encyclopedia |
| | Some comic books have gained recognition and garnered their creators awards outside the genre, such as Art Spiegelman's Maus, which won the Pulitzer Prize and Neil Gaiman's The Sandman, an issue of which won the World Fantasy Award for "Best Short Story". | | | The horror comic and true crime comic genres flourished, due in no small part to stylized artwork and literate sensibilities developing. | | | These comics were published independently of the established comic book publishers and most reflected the youth counter-culture and drug culture of the time. |
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http://www.wacklepedia.com/c/co/comic_book.html
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| | INDONESIAN COMIC TODAY |
| | We have noticed that there are a number of new European comics, created by young, talented, artists, with a potential to capture faithful readers, that are released in many countries but not in Indonesia. | | | This community was establisehd at the First National Comic Exhibition in Jakarta. | | | So when those comics series were released as comic albums, most readers were reluctant to buy them, since they already knew what the whole story was all about (with the exception of some very popular albums that are worth collecting). |
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http://komik.scriptmania.com/indonesiancomictoday.html
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| | European Comic Art |
| | European comic art also distinguishes itself by the richness of its styles, humor or realistic, and by the vastness of its genres, whether science-fiction, fantasy, crime, horror, history, romance, or even eroticism. | | | European comic art, especially in France and Belgium, has commanded great respect and attention since the sixties. | | | European comic books, or to be more accurate, graphic novels, boast many facets. |
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| | Mutant Liberation Front - European comics |
| | Superheroes are almost non-existent in European comics, the format is very, very different and also the monthly publishing of a title is not te be seen here, an album a year most of the time. | | | Comics got more popular over the years, starting with publisher Juniorpress end of the '70ies (I'm talking the Netherlands/Belgium here, can't speak for the rest of Europe), there was earlier stuff, but not that much. | | | American comics (superhero) are regarded as childish badly-drawn almost garbage by serious comic-fans over here............even more, talk about comics and you talk about American stuff, Dutch/Belgian people talk about comics and strips (the Dutch/Belgian word for comics.....but not a literally translation) like they are two different things entirely. |
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http://www.sketchyorigins.com/comics/showthread.php?t=1728
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| | Comic creator: Jean Giraud |
| | After having followed several art studies since a very young age, Giraud drew his first comics and illustrations for Far-West, Sitting-Bull, Fripounet et Marisette, Âmes Vaillantes and Coeurs Vaillants in the mid 1950s. | | | 'Blueberry' soon became the highlight of European western comics. | | | See thousands of comic artists in the Lambiek |
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| | The Comics Journal: Interviews |
| | We do have friendly relationships with plenty of local comics artists, and they know they are always welcome to bring new issues in, replenish sold copies, and stock us with accompanying merch related to their comics, like buttons. | | | This column talked to several of the nation's most prominent minicomics retailers and buyers in order to snap a picture of this particular outlet in a way that might be helpful to a cartoonist thinking of letting other people sell his or her work. | | | If comics is a medium, it would follow that minicomics be completed as personal correspondence, as documentation, or as a way to present a report -- some of them disposable, some not, but as far removed as possible from the questions of what sells and why. |
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| | Spirou comic magazine |
| | There, Franquin started his black humor comics 'Idées Noires', Frédéric Jannin took on 'Germain et Nous' and Enki Bilal, Claire Bretécher, F'Murr and Gotlib made their appearance. | | | Many artists made their first steps in the comics field in this series, such as Hermann, Jean Graton, Dino Attanasio, Liliane and Fred Funcken and Derib. | | | Throughout the years, Spirou magazine has been a breeding ground for talented comics artists. |
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http://www.lambiek.net/magazines/spirou.htm
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| | An inventory of the comic strip in Africa, by Hilaire Mbiye Lumbala |
| | The world of the African comic strip will be briefly presented here by highlighting the apportioning of the work on the one hand (publishers, authors, and associations), and the production machine on the other (magazines, fairs, exhibitions, festivals). | | | On the fringe of this fair, ACRIA holds a competition open to amateur or semi-professional comic strip artists and writers, both Congolese nationals and foreigners living in the DRC, on the themes of "Objective 2000". | | | This is the case, for example, in Histoire mondiale de la BD (World History of Comic Strips) and the Dictionnaire de la BD (Dictionary of Comic Strips). |
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| | The Comics Reporter |
| | Her mini-comics are as straightforward and easy to understand as her comics work for various alternative publishers, and can certainly be enjoyed as individual work. | | | Underground comics shook up perceptions as to what styles and modes constituted a viable approach to the art form. | | | Fans of early comic strips and comic books made and even sold their own efforts to their friends; it is a childhood story common among professional artists. |
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| | Lambiek Comiclopedia |
| | If you know of any published comic artists that should be added to the list, send more information. | | | , an illustrated compendium of over 7,000 comic artists, listed under last name (or pseudonym). |
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| | drawn and quarterly |
| | Comics drawings are not created with a gallery space in mind: Even the curators of "Masters" concede that newspaper pages don't look quite at home on museum walls, in part because comics are a narrative as much as a visual medium. | | | His AGOshow was something of a milestonethe first time that the gallery exhibited a comic artist as a contemporary artist in full stature. | | | It's hardly comics' maiden voyage into the art world, but it's the first major museum show to trace the history of the medium as an art form in itself. |
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http://www.drawnandquarterly.com/newsList.php?st=art&art=a3dff7dd55a576
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