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GOD'S
BOSOM
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OTHER STORIES
THE HISTORICAL STRIPS OF JACK
JACKSON |
| by Jack Jackson |
Paperback
Fantagraphics Books
ISBN: 1560971711 |
$14.95
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Booklist:
Much
of the work of 1960s underground comics veteran Jackson, who signs his
strips "Jaxon," has depicted the early history of his beloved home state,
Texas. The lurid title story here tells of the gory deaths of 300 Spanish
shipwreck victims at the hands of savage, cannibalistic Indians. Other
historical tales depict conflicts between natives and missionaries, the
invention of the Colt revolver, and the development of the Camino Real--the
King's Highway that traverses the state. Rounding out the volume are an
encounter with two characters from Jackson's underground days, Oat Willie
and God Nose; an on-the-scene history of the underground comics publisher,
Rip Off Press; and brief anti-Yankee strips and other chauvinistic propaganda
that originally appeared in Austin area publications. This rather motley
assortment lacks the cohesion of Jackson's earlier Spaniards and Indians
tale, Secret of San Saba (1989), and Jackson's scratchy but straightforward
graphic style lacks the sophistication of the best of today's alternative
comix artists. But what Jackson lacks in finesse, he makes up for in gusto.
--Gordon
Flagg
Copyright© 1995, American
Library Association. All rights reserved
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LOST
CAUSE
John Wesley Hardin, The Taylor-Sutton
Feud, and Reconstruction Texas |
| by Jack Jackson |
Paperback: 168 pages
Kitchen Sink Press
ISBN: 0878166181 |
$16.95
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Miller & Lynn Varley |
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300 |
by
Frank Miller
& Lynn Varley |
$30.00
Hardcover: 88 pages
Dark Horse Comics
ISBN: 1569714029 |
| "300
is simply extraordinary storytelling--a genius at the height of his powers,
expanding the medium while bringing dry history to teeming life."
--Comics
Buyer's Guide
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300 was named
"favorite comics series of the year" by The Washington Times
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A story of defiance against
tyranny and valor against impossible odds--Frank Miller's 300 The armies
of Persia--a vast horde greater than any the world has ever known--are
poised to crush Greece, an island of reason and freedom in a sea of madness
and tyranny. Standing between Greece and this tidal wave of destruction
is a tiny detachment of but three hundred warriors. But these warriors
are more than men--they are Spartans!
Frank Miller's epic retelling
of history's supreme moment of battlefield valor is a glorious hardcover
volume--each oversize page encompasses what was originally a double-page
spread, greatly enhancing the graphic and narrative power of this immortal
tale of heroic sacrifice. Story and art by living comics legend Frank Miller,
painted by Lynn Varley. |
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About the Author
Frank Miller is among the
world's most popular comics creators. His work on the original series Sin
City has garnered numerous awards, including two Harvey awards for Best
Graphic Album of Original Work (1998) and Best Continuing Series (1996),
and the series has earned Miller six Eisner Awards, including those for
Best Writer/Artist, Best Graphic Novel Reprint, Best Cartoonist, Best Cover
Artist, Best Limited Series, and Best Short Story. Similarly, books in
his Martha Washington series have won Eisners for Best Finite Series, Best
Coloring, and Best Penciller/Inker. |
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MOORE & EDDIE CAMPBELL |
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FROM
HELL |
| by Alan Moore & Eddie Campbell |
Paperback: 572 pages
EDDIE CAMPBELL
ISBN: 0958578346 |
$35.00
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Amazon.com:
The mad, shaggy genius of
the comics world dips deeply into the well of history and pulls up a cup
filled with blood in From Hell. Alan Moore did a couple of Ph.D.'s worth
of research into the Whitechapel murders for this copiously annotated collection
of the independently published series. The web of facts, opinion, hearsay,
and imaginative invention draws the reader in from the first page. Eddie
Campbell's scratchy ink drawings evoke a dark and dirty Victorian London
and help to humanize characters that have been caricatured into obscurity
for decades. Moore, having decided that the evidence best fits the theory
of a Masonic conspiracy to cover up a scandal involving Victoria's grandson,
goes to work telling the story with relish from the point of view of the
victims, the chief inspector, and the killer--the Queen's physician. His
characterization is just as vibrant as Campbell's; even the minor characters
feel fully real. Looking more deeply than most, the author finds in the
"great work" of the Ripper a ritual magic working intended to give birth
to the 20th century in all its horrid glory. Maps, characters, and settings
are all as accurate as possible, and while the reader might not ultimately
agree with Moore and Campbell's thesis, From Hell is still a great work
of literature.
--Rob Lightner
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PALESTINE |
by Joe Sacco
Introduction by Edward Said |
Paperback: 288 pages
Fantagraphics Books
ISBN: 156097432X |
$24.95
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Art Spiegelman,
Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Maus
[Sacco's] obviously got
the calling. His stuff is obviously well wrought, with dizzying pages and
good rhythm.
The Journal of Palestinian
Studies
Palestine deserves a place
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Nasseer H.
Azuri, Professor of Political Science, The University of Massachusetts
Dartmouth
Sacco's Palestine brilliantly
and poignantly captures the essence of life under a repressive and prolonged
occupation.
The Comics Journal #166,
Frank Stack, February 1994
I may as well get right
to the point. Buy and read Joe Sacco's...Palestine.
Book Description
Fantagraphics Books is pleased
to present, for the first time, a single-volume collection of this 288-page
landmark of journalism and the artform of comics. Interest in Sacoo has
never been higher than with the release of his critically acclaimed book,
Safe Area Gorazde.
Based on several months of
research and an extended visit to the West Bank and Gaza Strip in the early
1990s (where he conducted over 100 interviews with Palestinians and Jews),
Palestine was the first major comics work of political and historical nonfiction
by Sacco, who has often been called the first comic book journalist.
Sacco's insightful reportage
takes place at the front lines, where busy marketplaces are spoiled by
shootings and tear gas, soldiers beat civilians with reckless abandon,
and roadblocks go up before reporters can leave. Sacco interviewed and
encountered prisoners, refugees, protesters, wounded children, farmers
who had lost their land, and families who had been torn apart by the Palestinian
conflict.
In 1996, the Before Columbus
Foundation awarded Palestine the seventeenth annual American Book Award,
stating that the author should be recognized for his "outstanding contribution
to American literature," while his publisher, Fantagraphics, is "to be
honored for their commitment to quality and their willingness to take risks
that accompany publishing outstanding books and authors that may not prove
'cost-effective' in the short run."
This new edition of Palestine
also features a new introduction from renowned author, critic, and historian
Edward Said, author of Peace and Its Discontents and The Question of Palestine
and one of the world's most respected authorities on the Middle Eastern
conflict.
About the Author
Joe Sacco lives in Queens,
New York. In April, he received a 2001 Guggenheim Fellowship to work on
his next project. |
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Spiegelman |
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MAUS:
A
Survivor's Tale;
My
Father Bleeds History;
Here
My Troubles Began |
by Art Spiegelman
Fred Jordon (Editor) |
Hardcover: 340 pages
Pantheon Books
ISBN: 0679406417 |
$35.00
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Ingram
A son struggles to come
to terms with the horrific story of his parents and their experiences during
the Holocaust and in postwar America, in an omnibus edition of Spiegelman's
two-part, Pulitzer Prize-winning best-seller. 25,000 first printing. |
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From Kirkus
Reviews
Together with the much-acclaimed
first volume of Spiegelman's Maus (1987--not reviewed), this unusual Holocaust
tale will forever alter the way serious readers think of graphic narratives
(i.e., comic books). For his unforgettable combination of words and pictures,
Spiegelman draws from high and low culture, and blends autobiography with
the story of his father's survival of the concentration camps. In funny-book
fashion, the all-too-real characters here have the heads of animals--the
Jews are mice, the Nazis are rats, and the Poles are pigs--a stark Orwellian
metaphor for dehumanized relations during WW II. Much of Spiegelman's narrative
concerns his own struggle to coax his difficult father into remembering
a past he'd rather forget. What emerges in father Vladek's tale is a study
in survival; he makes it through by luck, randomness, and cleverness. Physically
strong, he bluffs his way through the camps as a tinsmith and a shoemaker,
and also exploits his ability with languages. Every day in Auschwitz, and
later in Dachau, demands new bribes and masterly bartering. All of this
helps explain Vladek's art of survival in the present: his cheap, miserly
behavior; his disappointment over Spiegelman's marriage to a non-Jew; his
constant criticism of his own second wife and his son; and even his inexcusable
racism. Haunted by the brother who died in the camps, Spiegelman (born
in postwar Sweden) also mourns his mother, who survived only to commit
suicide in the late 60's. Within the time span of the writing of Maus (1978-91),
Vladek died, and Spiegelman now must sort out his complex feelings as he
reflects on the success of the first volume--a success built on the tragedy
of the Holocaust. With all his doubts, Spiegelman pushes on, realizing
that his book deserves a place in the ongoing struggle between memory and
forgetting. Full of hard-earned humor and pathos, Maus (I and II) takes
your breath away with its stunning visual style, reminding us that while
we can never forget the Holocaust, we may need new ways to remember.
--Copyright
©1991, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.
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"Maus is a book that cannot
be put down, truly, even to sleep. When two of the mice speak of love,
you are moved, when they suffer, you weep. Slowly through this little tale
comprised of suffering, humor and life's daily trials, you are captivated
by the language of an old Eastern European family, and drawn into the gentle
and mesmerizing rhythm, and when you finish Maus, you are unhappy to have
left that magical world."
--Umberto
Eco
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MAUS
Boxed
Set:
A Survivor's Tale
My Father Bleeds History
Here My Troubles Began |
| by Art Spiegelman |
Paperback Boxed edition
Pantheon Books
ISBN: 0679748407 |
$28.00
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"All too infrequently, a
book comes along that's as daring as it is acclaimed. Art Spiegelman's
Maus is just such book."
-- Esquire
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About the
Author
Art Spiegelman is co-founder/editor
of Raw, the acclaimed magazine of avant-garde comics and graphics His work
has been published in the New York Times Playboy, the Village Voice, and
many other periodicals, and his drawings have been exhibited in museums
and galleries here and abroad. Honors he has received for Maus include
a Guggenheim fellowship, and nomination for the National Book Critics Circle
Award. Mr. Spiegelman lives in New York City with his wife, Francoise Mouly,
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