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 The Complete Peanuts 1950-1954 Boxed SetBest Price: $31.78 My wife has always been a fan of Peanuts, and I found these to be perfect. She's so happy each... |  The Best American Comics 2007 (The Best American Series)Best Price: $8.64 The Best American Comics series strives show what the medium of comic books can do more than... |  Alex Raymond: His Life And ArtBest Price: $28.75 This book covers in deep detail the many accomplishments of want-to-be Illustrator , and Comic... |  The Adventures of Herge: Creator of TintinBest Price: $17.45 Following on from his best selling Tintin: The Complete Companion, Michael Farr portrays the... |  Little Nemo: 1905-1914 (Evergreen)Best Price: $22.50 I discovered Winsor McCay only 2-3 months ago when reading the Sunday book review supplement in... |
 Cartoon Modern: Style and Design in 1950s AnimationBest Price: $20.90 I absolutely love 50's (and early 60's) animation styles, so based on the other reviews here I... |  Reading Comics: How Graphic Novels Work and What They MeanBest Price: $7.78 I don't know where to begin. This book is a mess. The writing is awash with redundancy,... |  Strange and Stranger: The World of Steve DitkoBest Price: $26.39 The first critical retrospective of the work of the reclusive Spider-Man co-creator. In the... |  The Astro Boy Essays: Osamu Tezuka, Mighty Atom, and the Manga/Anime RevolutionBest Price: $10.28 You will not believe me when I try to tell you about Osamu Tezuka. He drew over 150,000 pages... |  2008 Comic Book Checklist & Price Guide (Comic Book Checklist and Price Guide)Best Price: $10.63 this book is fairly complete to about june 2007. has listings for alternate covers and fairly... |
 Watching the WatchmenBest Price: $19.80 |  Graphic Witness: Four Wordless Graphic Novels by Frans Masereel, Lynd Ward, Giacomo Patri and Laurence HydeBest Price: $19.32 As a long-time collector of woodcut novels, I am overjoyed to see the republishing of these... |  Writers on Comics Scriptwriting, Vol. 1Best Price: $10.31 Almost every writer here has a different way that they approach comics writing, and no two... |  Graphic Novels: Everything You Need to KnowBest Price: $1.80 My favorite part about this book is the fact that it goes so in depth with every piece they take... |  Working Methods: Comic Creators Detail Their Storytelling And Artistic ProcessesBest Price: $13.01 The book has a great help in understanding how other artists go about creating their work. I... |
 The Physics of SuperheroesBest Price: $1.99 James Kakalios teaches a course on the Physics of Superheroes, so I would expect that he would... |  The Official Overstreet Comic Book Price Guide #37 (Official Overstreet Comic Book Price Guide)Best Price: $17.09 Just a few too many ads and could be organized a little clearer...its hard to find the different... |  Batman Unauthorized: Vigilantes, Jokers, and Heroes in Gotham City (Smart Pop series)Best Price: $6.73 This book is very good and the authors who write the essays on Batman have some interesting... |  The DC Comics Action Figure ArchiveBest Price: $21.01 I'm not sure why I bought this - impulse I guess (darn your targeted marketing Amazon!) Do you... |  Manga: 60 Years of Japanese ComicsBest Price: $10.90 In terms of English language academic works on the subject of Japanese manga, this book is... |
 Mechademia 2: Networks of Desire (Mechademia)Best Price: $12.21 The Mechademia series is an extraordinary anthology of original essays by scholars, artists, and... |  Kirby Five-Oh!: Celebrating 50 Years Of The "King" Of ComicsBest Price: $19.95 KIRBY FIVE-OH! is a special look at the best of everything from Jack Kirby s 50-year career in... |  Tintin & Co.Best Price: $14.94 Leading British Tintinologist and journalist, Michael Farr, presents his choice of the dozen... |  The Complete Peanuts 1953-1954Best Price: $17.00 Must have for that peanuts fan in your life. Be aware this is part of a set... |  The 9/11 Report: A Graphic AdaptationBest Price: $7.95 When I saw this volume on the bookshelf, I shook my head. I picked it up and examined it a... |
 Superman on the Couch: What Superheroes Really Tell Us About Ourselves and Our SocietyBest Price: $13.96 It is clear to me that this book is not aimed at people who actually READ superhero comics. ... |  Conan: The Ultimate Guide to the World's Most Savage BarbarianBest Price: $14.40 This book is excellent because it pertains to comics by writer Roy Thomas and artist John... |  Mythology: The DC Comics Art of Alex RossBest Price: $14.50 An amazingly illustrated montage of Ross's work. A beautiful book for fans of comic book art and... |  Krazy & Ignatz 1935-1936: "A Wild Warmth of Chromatic Gravy" (Krazy Kat)Best Price: $12.20 Krazy and Ignatz are unique in the history of the comics and highlight the Golden Age when... |  The Pocket Essential Tintin (The Pocket Essential)Best Price: $5.23 I bought this book for 3 grandsons (10, 12, 14) and thought they'd enjoy it as much as they have... |
 Comics Values Annual 2008 (Comics Values Annual)Best Price: $12.83 Comic book heroes are enjoying pop-culture popularity unlike any other time in history, and the... |  The Complete Peanuts 1957-1958Best Price: $15.00 For a die-hard Peanuts fan, this series is a must-have! |  Conan the PhenomenonBest Price: $17.44 No true REH fan can pass this book up! It's got a history of everyone from writers to artists... |  Modern Masters Volume 3: Bruce TimmBest Price: $8.93 As other reviews have stated, this is basically a book-length interview with "Batman: The... |  Manga: The Complete GuideBest Price: $10.25 I got this book to function as a dictionary of all things manga (a term that is defined by the... |
 The 101 Best Graphic NovelsBest Price: $5.34 I received the book and it is just what I wanted....a great resource. I teach Language Arts in... |  All-Star Companion, Volume 3Best Price: $16.03 Comics legend Roy Thomas presents still more amazing secrets behind the 1940-51 All-Star Comics... |  Superheroes!: Capes and Crusaders in Comics and FilmsBest Price: $10.00 Modern myths, cheap trash or the objects of fetishist desire? Most people know something... |  Archie Americana Series Best Of The Eighties (Archie Americana)Best Price: $6.13 Ok, I love the whole series and loved reading this one as well. I was born in the 80's... |  Disguised As Clark Kent: Jews, Comics, And the Creation of the SuperheroBest Price: $11.95 I most enjoyed the Superman background. The book assumes knowledge of each of the comic book... |
 Super Heroes: A Modern Mythology (Studies in Popular Culture)Best Price: $18.04 In Superheroes: A Modern Mythology, Richard Reynolds does an excellent job of dissecting some of... |  The Art of HellboyBest Price: $16.89 Mike Mignola's amazing art for Hellboy looks very different from anything else being used in... |  Classics Illustrated: A Cultural History, with IllustrationsBest Price: $44.00 When I was just a boy (many years ago), for a treat to myself, I bought the Classics Illustrated... |  Essential Avengers, Vol. 2 (Marvel Essentials)Best Price: $8.00 This volume collects issues #26-46 (plus King-Sized Annual #1) of Marvel Comics' Avengers series... |  The Art of BoneBest Price: $15.95 Jeff Smith is one of the greatest comic artists of our times, and it is inevitable that with the... |
 Frazetta: The Definitive ReferenceBest Price: $19.77 Enter the world of Frank Frazetta--with more than 800 illustrations * The most complete... |  Spider-Man The Icon: The Life and Times of a Pop Culture Phenomenon (Spiderman)Best Price: $27.42 This book appears to have been inspired by the superior "Batman Collected" by Chip... |  Wordless Books: The Original Graphic NovelsBest Price: $23.10 ?Wordless books? were stories from the early part of the twentieth century told in black and... |  Batman: The Complete HistoryBest Price: $6.63 I thoroughly enjoyed reading this book. As a Batman fan, I found it very interesting reading... |  500 Comic Book VillainsBest Price: $6.95 I was very satisfied with the book, it was just what I was looking for and arrived in great... |
 Up, Up, and Oy Vey!: How Jewish History, Culture, and Values Shaped the Comic Book SuperheroBest Price: $12.29 "Oy Vey" is the phrase that best describes this book. I hate to break the news to the... |  The Economics of Web Comics, 2nd EditionBest Price: $13.37 How do webcomics make money? Allen examines advertising, subscriptions, downloads, print... |  Excelsior! : The Amazing Life of Stan LeeBest Price: $7.72 An interesting look into the life of Stan Lee, Marvel Comic Master! It was a detailed and... |  Faster than a Speeding Bullet: The Rise of the Graphic NovelBest Price: $6.22 In this tiresome age of long-winded reiterations and thematic cudgels we must realize that the... | |
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