Give Our Regards to the Atomsmashers!: Writers on ComicsSean Howe Pantheon Books, 2004 - 228 pagine In "Give Our Regards to the Atom-smashers!," some of our most intriguing and creative contemporary writers weigh in on the world of comics: the ones they love versus the ones they hate, the comics they devoured as kids and still can't live without, and the comics that have influenced them in their work and their lives. Here is Jonathan Lethem on childhood friendships, comic books, and the genius of artist Jack Kirby . . . Brad Meltzer on spending a summer vacation with the New Teen Titans. . . Glen David Gold on the obsessive nature of collecting . . . Myla Goldberg writing about the disturbed visions of Chris Ware and Renee French . . . Steve Erickson riffing on the perverse patriotism of American Flagg. Here, too, are Luc Sante on Tintin, Aimee Bender on Yummy Fur, Greil Marcus on Uncle Sam, Lydia Millet on Little Nemo in Slumberland, and many others. "Give Our Regards to the Atomsmashers! "is a quirky, thrilling, and compulsively readable celebration of the unique alchemy of words and drawings that forms the language of comic books. It is a book that will delight the seasoned comics reader and invite everyone else into a whole new world. |
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... novel above all other pursuits , or maybe it's the other way around and I became a novelist because I could imagine no finer ambition than to attempt to provide for others the experience I hold in supreme regard . Whatever the ontology ...
... novel above all other pursuits , or maybe it's the other way around and I became a novelist because I could imagine no finer ambition than to attempt to provide for others the experience I hold in supreme regard . Whatever the ontology ...
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... novels , including Our Ecstatic Days , forthcoming from Simon & Schuster , as well as two books about American politics ... novel , Wick- ett's Remedy , will be published by Doubleday in 2005 . Andrew Hultkrans is the author of Forever ...
... novels , including Our Ecstatic Days , forthcoming from Simon & Schuster , as well as two books about American politics ... novel , Wick- ett's Remedy , will be published by Doubleday in 2005 . Andrew Hultkrans is the author of Forever ...
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... novel , Sound on Sound ; his second is forth- coming from Farrar , Straus & Giroux . He lives in Brooklyn . John Wray has a novel out called The Right Hand of Sleep ( Knopf / Vintage ) and plays in a band called Marmalade ( Beautiful ...
... novel , Sound on Sound ; his second is forth- coming from Farrar , Straus & Giroux . He lives in Brooklyn . John Wray has a novel out called The Right Hand of Sleep ( Knopf / Vintage ) and plays in a band called Marmalade ( Beautiful ...
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