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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 superheroes—mainstream and counterculture, famous and forgotten, best and worst—including classics like Green Lantern and Plastic Man, cult favorites like the Rocketeer and Madman, and timeless entities like the XMen. | | | Since then he’s 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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| | 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. | | | Category(ies): Comics & Graphic Novels, Reference, Society, Politics & Philosophy, Humour, Art, Architecture & Photography | | | We also do commission work - hand painted originals of your photos, painted onto a canvas. |
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http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/0060538163
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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. | | | Hide your face no more—now you can school those newbies in the nicest way possible. |
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http://www.bookpage.com/0412bp/nonfiction/comics_encyclopedia.html
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| | Lambiek Comiclopedia |
| | , an illustrated compendium of over 7,000 comic artists, listed under last name (or pseudonym). | | | If you know of any published comic artists that should be added to the list, send more information. |
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http://www.lambiek.com/artists/index.htm
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| | Encyclopedia opens window on Appalachia |
| | As laid out in its introduction, the encyclopedia attempts to document Appalachia as not a social and economic problem, but as a real, if often redefined and constantly changing, place -- one that is "too diverse to generalize about." | | | Who knew that the long-running hillbilly comic strip "Barney Google and Snuffy Smith" gave us the terms "heebie jeebies" and "horsefeathers"? |
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http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/06073/669920.stm
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| | Spider-Bob's Comic Book Encyclopedia |
| | After receiving a deluge of mail about comics, I created this column to answer many of the questions. | | | If you do not find the answers you seek feel free to send me a message and I will add it to the litany of topics - or clarify an article that may have been less than concise. | | | Within, you will find information on comics history, storage and preservation, grading, buying and selling, conventions; and what I think may or may not be a worthy read. |
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http://spider-bob.com
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| | Bibliography/Reference |
| | Amazing collection of informative, revealing, intriguing essays, interviews, excerpts, opinions and other neat stuff, both original and from various sources, covering noir in all its shadowy glory, from films and literature to radio, television and comics. | | | Additional entries cover commercial radio, educational broadcasting, firsts in radio history, opera on radio, religious broadcasting, sports broadcasting, women in radio, border radio, children's programs, comedy on radio, crime shows and mysteries, daytime dramatic serials, and disk jockeys, among other topics. | | | Sections devoted to newspaper comic strips, comic books, pulp magazines and paperbacks. |
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http://www.thrillingdetective.com/trivia/triv73.html
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Topic: Comic