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Humorous1
  • The comic books produced by Malcolm Wheeler-Nicholson included not only humorous stories but also Westerns and other dramatic plots. (vault.com)
Superheroes1
  • Interest in superheroes began to revive when DC, the publishing group that surrounded Detective Comics, reinvented a 1940s character called The Flash in 1956. (vault.com)
Fantagraphics Books3
Neil Gaiman2
  • Complete Graveyard Book HC, signed by Neil Gaiman! (cbldf.org)
  • Another Neil Gaiman classic, all of the Sandman is amazing but this one-off comic deserves a highlight. (themarysue.com)
Illustrator3
  • Toronto-based writer and illustrator Ho Che Anderson is a veteran on the comic book scene. (cbc.ca)
  • Graphic novelist Guy Delisle is the author and illustrator of Hostage. (cbc.ca)
  • Lorina Mapa is the author and illustrator of the graphic memoir Duran Duran, Imelda Marcos and Me. (cbc.ca)
Main1
  • Her main research areas are print and book history, visual and material cultures of the Soviet and post-Soviet eras with a special focus on Soviet children's books and self-made news media. (lu.se)
Content2
  • Welcome to Using Graphic Novels in Education , an ongoing feature from CBLDF that is designed to allay confusion around the content of graphic novels and to help parents and teachers raise readers. (cbldf.org)
  • Today, Stewart might have a bit of trouble discerning the content of Dave Mckean's gorgeous picture book, Celluloid . (pastemagazine.com)
Marvel Comics2
  • Marvel Graphic Novel (MGN) is a line of graphic novel trade paperbacks published from 1982 to 1993 by Marvel Comics. (wikipedia.org)
  • Marvel Comics The Untold Story. (wikipedia.org)
Illustrators3
  • Check out these great books by Canadian writers and illustrators. (cbc.ca)
  • Canada has a wide selection of comic book writers and illustrators that are deserving of your attention. (cbc.ca)
  • Come and join the fun with each of our amazing graphic novel illustrators as they show young people how they created their characters! (cbcbooks.org)
Readers1
  • His current research, as a part of the ERC-funded COMICS programme, bears on children's drawing and creative tactics of child readers in European bande dessinée. (lu.se)
20192
  • Polish Picturebook (2016), and an editor-in-chief of Captains of Illustration: 100 Years of Children's Books from Poland (2019). (lu.se)
  • He co-edited the essay collection Comics Memory: Archives and Styles (Palgrave, 2018) with Maaheen Ahmed, and the two-volume Bande dessinée et Abstraction (Abstraction and Comics) with ACME (Presses universitaires de Liège and La 5e couche, 2019). (lu.se)
Children's books1
  • The Children's Book Council (CBC) is the nonprofit trade association of children's book publishers in North America, dedicated to promoting children's books and reading. (cbcbooks.org)
Form1
  • A lot of genre movies and television shows ( Firefly, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Gravity Falls, etc) have continued on in comic book form. (themarysue.com)
Bookstore2
19682
  • It has been a hallmark in the world of comics since the opening in 1968. (lambiek.net)
  • The counterculture of the late 1960s and early 1970s produced its own distinctive comic-book style, heralded by Robert Crumb's Zap Comix (1968). (vault.com)
SANDMAN1
  • Twenty-five years after THE SANDMAN first changed the landscape of modern comics, Neil Gaiman's legendary series is back i. (cbldf.org)
Anthology1
  • Somnambulance represents a career-spanning anthology collecting comics from the talented and widely-admired creator. (cbc.ca)
Captioned panels1
  • He had been amusing his students by drawing caricatures, and in this book and several that followed he reproduced them as captioned panels, as many as six to a page. (vault.com)
Batman2
  • The May 1939 issue of Wheeler-Nicholson's Detective Comics featured another new character, Batman, the work of writer Bill Finger and artist Bob Kane. (vault.com)
  • For those who want to get into Batman comics in particular, Batman: Year One is an excellent place to start, showing a very green. (themarysue.com)
Author4
  • An epic graphic novel about a girl who travels to the ends of the universe to find a long lost love, from acclaimed author Tillie Walden. (cbldf.org)
  • GG, who hails from the Canadian Prairies, is the author and artist behind the graphic novel I'm Not Here. (cbc.ca)
  • Author of Stacja Ilustracja: Polska ilustracja książkowa 1950-1980 [Station Illustration: Polish Book Illustration 1950-1980], Odpowiedni dać rzeczy obraz: O genezie ilustracji książkowych [To Find Relevant Images to Words: On Origins of Book Illustrations], co-author of Look! (lu.se)
  • She is author of an illustrated monograph on contemporary Russian book design and print culture The New Russian Book. (lu.se)
Volumes2
  • In response to clamorous fan requests, the two volumes of the graphic novel adaptation of The Graveyard Book are now bound into one stunning edition. (cbldf.org)
  • All three volumes of the cult-classic Tank Girl comics (1988-1995) from legendary creators Alan Martin and Jamie Hewlett (Gorillaz). (lambiek.net)
Creators1
  • These creators are here to talk about graphic novels and literacy, what we can do about censorship in our communities, and most importantly, how to keep bans off our books! (cbcbooks.org)
Superman1
  • He ushered in the Golden Age of comic books with Action Comics, featuring in its first issue (1938) the new character Superman, created by writer Jerry Siegel and artist Joe Shuster. (vault.com)
Fits1
  • Rock and other classic war comics, which fits the reality of the story. (pastemagazine.com)
Series6
  • The beloved comic book series Eightball made Daniel. (lambiek.net)
  • GG is a an Alberta-based cartoonist whose first book, I'm Not Here , strings together a series of intimate memories as a young, second-generation woman moves through the neighbourhood of her childhood. (cbc.ca)
  • The Classics Illustrated series, beginning in 1941, retold public domain novels for the easy consumption of young people and allowed many a student to cheat on book reports. (vault.com)
  • Marvel numbered stories through 1985 up to number 20, but released many other stories in the same format that are considered unnumbered parts of the series according to the Official Overstreet Comic Book Price Guide. (wikipedia.org)
  • Several characters were featured in an issue of Marvel Graphic Novel before receiving their own miniseries or ongoing series. (wikipedia.org)
  • Other series which were spun-off from a Marvel Graphic Novel are Dreadstar, Void Indigo, Starstruck, and The Swords of the Swashbucklers. (wikipedia.org)
19821
  • The Death of Captain Marvel, the first book in the line, was published in January 1982. (wikipedia.org)
20231
  • The Children's Book Council has put together great programs for NYCC 2023. (cbcbooks.org)
20181
  • In honour of the Toronto Festival of Comic Arts happening May 12-13, 2018, we are highlighting 10 great comic books and graphic novels you should be reading right now. (cbc.ca)
Anderson1
  • Anderson brilliantly and creatively plays with this graphic novel format and collage, creating a textured story and feel, similar to that of a documentary film. (cbldf.org)
Childhood2
  • Duran Duran, Imelda Marcos and Me is her poignant graphic novel that look back at her childhood in the Philippines, as a Duran Duran-loving tomboy, the apple of her father's eye and politically outspoken teenager during the turbulent 1980s. (cbc.ca)
  • Discover Italy's award-winning authors With this new novel about the passage from childhood to adolescence to adulthood, Elena Ferrante gives her. (rjjulia.com)
Love5
  • Love to Save on Books, Movies, and Music? (alibris.com)
  • Love comics? (cbc.ca)
  • subscription service combines the convenience of a personal shopper with a love for reading and all things books. (rjjulia.com)
  • Book Clubs we love! (longfellowbooks.com)
  • Basically a META love letter to comic books and their fans, it follows the aftermath of the "real" and "fictional" worlds colliding and the fallout caused by fictional characters living in our world. (themarysue.com)
News1
  • By signing up you enjoy subscriber-only access to the latest news, personalized book picks and special offers, delivered right to your inbox. (alibris.com)
Publisher1
  • Hachette Book Group is a leading book publisher based in New York and a division of Hachette Livre, the third-largest publisher in the world. (hachettebookgroup.com)
History2
  • Interestingly, in the beginning of the book, the images are done in black and white with a splash of red reflecting more violent moments in history. (cbldf.org)
  • A Graphic Cultural History (Palgrave, 2017). (lu.se)
Discussion2
  • In this column, we examine graphic novels, including those that have been targeted by censors, and provide teaching and discussion suggestions for the use of such books in classrooms. (cbldf.org)
  • Discussion: This report describes the steps in the creation of the comic book that can be used for health promotion education. (cdc.gov)
Women1
  • Time Zone J is Julie Doucet's first inked comic since famously quitting in the nineties after an exhausting career in an industry that, at the time, made little room for women. (lambiek.net)
World4
  • With one of the largest book inventories in the world, find the book you are looking for. (alibris.com)
  • Our site presents the Comiclopedia, an online encyclopedia of thousands of comic artists from all over the world. (lambiek.net)
  • The Comiclopedia is an illustrated compendium of over 14,000 comic artists from all over the world. (lambiek.net)
  • Discuss anything comic books, graphic novels, digital comics or anything else from the comic collecting world. (toyark.com)
Great2
  • The Virginia Library Association is celebrating great comics and graphic novels of 2015 with the development of a new award that honors works that embrace and support diversity. (cbldf.org)
  • The Great Depression was the period when soft-covered comic books began to appear on newsstands, rather than as hardbound books or promotional prizes. (vault.com)
Made2
  • The comic-book medium had already made some experiments with novelistic storytelling. (vault.com)
  • The pace is swift, meaning you'll finish the book before you realize it, but the plot is neatly crafted, with a particularly clever final twist, and the result is a small, beautifully made object. (pastemagazine.com)
Special2
  • What makes this so special is Anderson's creative use of the graphic novel format, telling this story through a collage of narratives, dialogue, photos, and drawn images that effortlessly meld multiple perspectives. (cbldf.org)
  • Items in saleable condition (except special orders, used or sale books) returnable within a month with receipt. (odysseybks.com)
Enjoy1
Genre1
  • I know some people see comics as being for kids or nerds, but chances are, if you like any kind of genre fiction, you can find a comic you'll like. (themarysue.com)
Back1
  • Its back cover referred to the publication as a "comic book," a relatively new term that stuck even when the medium began to be used for purposes other than humor and satire. (vault.com)
Inbox1
  • Join our community to get personalised book suggestions, extracts straight to your inbox, 10% off RRPs, and to change children's lives. (lovereading4kids.co.uk)
Price2
  • LoveReading4Kids exists because books change lives, and buying books through LoveReading4Kids means you get to change the lives of future generations, with 25% of the cover price donated to schools in need. (lovereading4kids.co.uk)
  • Overstreet Comic Book Price Guide (49th ed. (wikipedia.org)
Medium1
  • While comic book movies and shows are dominating theaters and streaming services, it's important to note that the medium itself is still less mainstream and in need of support. (themarysue.com)
Shop1
  • Lambiek is Europe's first comic shop and probably the oldest existing comic shop worldwide. (lambiek.net)
Sold1
  • These satirical "underground" comics explicitly depicted sexual behavior and drug use, but they were able to defy the restrictions of the industry code because they were marketed mainly to shops that sold drug paraphernalia rather than through the conventional distribution network. (vault.com)