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| GARETH E. HINDS |
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BEARSKIN
A
GRIMM TALE |
| by Gareth E. Hinds |
Paperback: 80 pages
thecomic.com
ISBN: 1893131009 |
$5.95
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BEARSKIN is
a graphic novel adaptation of a Brothers Grimm Fairy Tale. It is the story
of a discharged soldier who, homeless and destitute, agrees to a deal with
the Devil. For seven years he must wear the pelt of a bear, and neither
bathe, shave, cut his hair or nails, nor sleep in a bed. If he dies during
the seven years, he will lose his soul, but if he survives he will be the
wealthiest man in the world.
80 pp. b/w. |
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you've read and loved BEARSKIN as I have, believe me, you've only seen
the tip of the Iceberg. Gareth Hinds is a talent to be reckoned with. Don't
let him out of your sight for a minute."
--Scott
McCloud, author of Understanding Comics
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This book is intended to
build on the recent resurgence of interest in fairy tales as both timeless
entertainment and deep wells of sociological and psychological information.
Mass-media adaptations of these tales have invariably distorted their symbolic
content to please current narrative tastes. The goal of the Bearskin project
is to give the modern audience a faithful retelling of some of the old
stories, with their original archetypal elements intact, as well as to
flavor each story with a distinct visual interpretation.
Bearskin is the first book
published by TheComic.com, a non-incorporated venture into the realm of
independent comics and E-commerce. It is centered on a web page which features
a free, serialized online comic book, Deus Ex Machina, as well as an online
store for Bearskin-related merchandise. Bearskin was published with the
help of a grant from the Xeric Foundation. This is an organization whose
purpose is to give financial assistance to comic book self-publishers,
on the basis of originality, literary and artistic merit, and commitment
to the medium. Bearskin received the maximum Xeric Grant for spring 1998.
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About the Author:
Gareth Hinds was born in
1971, went to the same High School as Frank Miller, and has a BFA in illustration
from Parsons School of Design. Now he lives in the Boston area and does
artwork for computer games. He is currently working on an adaptation of
the classic hero saga Beowulf. |
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| ILYA |
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THE
END OF THE CENTURY CLUB
COUNTDOWN |
| by Ilya |
Paperback: 120 pages
Slab-O-Concrete
ISBN: 0952738600 |
$12.50
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| “Rousing
stuff – it sparks thought and kicks down doors… highly recommended, go
Ilya, go!”
--The
Comics Journal
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| Take a gay crusty
motormouth, his desperately correct sister, a hot-head moon-calf cyclist,
a nail-spitting Anglo-Indian beauty, an American stud-muffin with a secret
past who EVERYONE wants to shag, and a hyperactive garden gnome with a
hygiene deficiency... Put them all together and what do you get?
THE END OF THE CENTURY
CLUB!
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“If
you have not yet caught up with this one, you are missing the best British
comics has to offer. 10 out of 10”
--Comics
International
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“Get
a copy and flaunt it”
--D>TOUR
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| ILYA |
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THE
END OF THE CENTURY CLUB
TIME
WARP |
| by Ilya |
Paperback: 220 pages
Slab-O-Concrete
ISBN: 1899866205 |
$19.50
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| Continuing the
adventures of the End Of The Century Club gang TIME WARP combines the attributes
of quality comics such as Love & Rockets, Minimum Wage and Strangers
In Paradise with the storytelling of writers and film-makers like Martin
Millar, Hanif Kureishi, Mike Leigh & Ken Loach. Imagine a minimum wage
‘This Life’ as written by Philip K. Dick! |
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A furious, rabble-rousing,
hilarious and epic comic strip tale of bonding, bitching and bedlam, and
an accurate and entertaining depiction of life on the edge in UK plc, as
the Twentieth century gasps its last.
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Note: TIME WARP is perfectly
readable without having read END OF THE CENTURY CLUB first.
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"Crude, rude, and dead-on
authentic in voice and spirit, the multiethnic cast of young Brits peopling
this compilation celebrate the winding down of one millennium and the overmarketing
of the new. Subplots include one geeky character's eternal failure to go
with the flow of any organized activity, another's dramatic escape from
her Indian father's plan to arrange a marriage for her, and the travails
of a Rasta-haired wanna-be musician. Couth has no value among this crowd
and yet they are quick to defend one another, and passersby as well, from
remarks and actions that they interpret as unfair or bigoted. The illustrations
are effective and affecting, with one or two scenes of frontal nudity and
more than occasional visual puns in the scenery. Older teens will appreciate
this graphic novel for its message as well as its stylish delivery."
Francisca
Goldsmith, Berkeley Public Library, CA
Copyright 2000 Cahners Business
Information, Inc.
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| INSIGHT STUDIOS |
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TITANIC
TALES
featuring
THE SPIDER
Volume
One |
| by Mark Wheatley, Allan Gross, Gary Henry, Al Williamson,
Frank Cho, Marc Hempel, Mike Oeming, Steve Conley, & Damon Willis |
Paperback: 192 pages
Insight Studios
ISBN: 1889317039 |
$17.95
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| A pulp revival
that's full of lavishly-illustrated pulp prose stories, non-fiction, and
enough comics to keep you satisfied til the next edition arrives. A Weird
Tales
for those who enjoy comics, too. |
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| Not since the
glory days of the pulps has there been a book like TITANIC TALES! Hard-hitting,
gut-wrenching, pants-wetting fiction is waiting for you in this throw-back
to those exciting days when men were men, women were women and pulps were
pulps! And TITANIC TALES couldn't have picked a better time to arrive.
Just when nearly all the life has been sucked out of entertainment, leaving
a grey, politically correct dullness, TITANIC TALES serves up a heaping
helping of the stuff that straightens the spine with horror, excitement,
and the inspiring actions of heroic men and women. TITANIC TALES isn't
afraid to call it as it sees it, shoot straight and throw an upper-cut
to the intellect. |
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| FRANZ KAFKA &
PETER KUPER |
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GIVE
IT UP!
AND OTHER SHORT STORIES |
| by Franz Kafka; illustrated by Peter Kuper |
Hardcover: 64 pages
NBM Publishing, Inc.
ISBN: 1561631256 |
$15.95
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| Nine paranoid
tales by Franz Kafka adapted to stark, black-and-white comics by Peter
Kuper, whose illustrations and covers appear regularly in the New York
Times, Time and Business Week. More than just straight adaptations, these
clever interpretations of Kafka's tales bring out the dark humor latent
in Kafka's work, better known for its despair and somberness. Heralded
by Rolling Stone, Kuper's art is bold, powerful, and perfectly suited for
Kafka. |
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From
Booklist
Comic-strip
adaptations of literature are nothing new--remember Classics Illustrated?--but
with the recent proliferation of graphic novels aimed at adults, they've
acquired a certain legitimacy. For the latest entry in NBM's ComicsLit
series, Kuper is a highly appropriate choice for interpreting nine short
stories by Franz Kafka. Kuper's scratchboard style, which resembles woodcuts,
is reminiscent of the German expressionist artists (Kafka's contemporaries),
and his cartoony approach accentuates Kafka's dark humor while it generally
avoids the pitfall of depicting Kafka's deadpan narratives too literally.
The project doesn't break new ground for Kuper, however, who has previously
adapted Upton Sinclair's Jungle and whose autobiographical Stripped included
several unsettling dreams that resemble Kafka's waking nightmares. In his
introduction, cartoonist-playwright Jules Feiffer compares Kuper's approach
to jazz--" visual improvisations on short takes by the old master" --and
calls Kuper's American take on alienation noisier and more raucous than
Kafka's resignation. Kafka holds particular appeal for alternative comics
artists: R. Crumb rendered his biography in comic strips that belong beside
Kuper's adaptations on adventurous libraries' shelves.
Gordon
Flagg
Copyright
© American Library Association. All rights reserved.
Midwest
Book Review
Franz
Kafka's stories are paired with graphic artist Peter Kuper's illustrations
to provide some fine short story laughs to any interested in the graphic
comic format. These black and white presentations are excellent, twisted
visions of modern society.
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