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Celebrate the wonder of Disney in its 100th year in this platinum collection of vintage stickers. Capture and keep the magic with Disney characters from across ten decades of history, including icons Mickey and Minnie, Disney Princesses, Pixar characters such as Woody and Buzz Lightyear, and Disney Animation stars such as Winnie the Pooh.Page after page of this book is packed with beautiful vintage artwork of characters that entertain, delight, and bring back precious memories. Get creative! Ado...

Find out everything you need to know about all your favourite superheroes from DC comic books. The most comprehensive chronological history of DC Comics ever published, DC Comics Year by Year A Visual Chronicle covers all the milestone events in the history of DC Comics.Explore the milestone events of DC Comics month by month, from the company's inception in 1934 as National Allied Publications to the present day. The first appearances of key characters, such as Batman, Aquaman and Superman are...

Filiu and David B. draw striking parallels between ancient and contemporary political history in this look at the US-Middle East conflict.  The reader is transported to the pirate-choked Mediterranean sea, where Christians and Muslims continue the crusades, only this time on water. As the centuries pass, the traditional victims of the Muslim pirates--the British, French, and Spanish--all become empire-building powers whose sights lie beyond the Mediterranean.

Batman Unauthorized explores Batman's motivations and actions, as well as those of his foes. Batman is a creature of the night, more about vengeance than justice, more plagued by doubts than full of self-assurance, and more darkness than light. He has no superpowers, just skill, drive and a really well-made suit. One of the most recognized superheroes ever created, Batman has survived through campy TV shows and films, through actors such as Adam West, Michael Keaton and Christian Bale. Batman U...

For the first time ever, immerse yourself in the action-packed thrills of DC at the movies in one spectacular book. From the trailblazing 1940s movie serials that first put Batman and Superman on the silver screen to the Caped Crusader's swinging 1960s escapades and the iconic 1970s Superman, to the state-of-the-art 21st century reinventions of the Dark Knight, the Man of Steel, and Wonder Woman, this book provides an indispensable guided tour of DC cinema history. See how DC's characters, l...

Hellboy, Mike Mignola's famed comic book demon hunter, wanders through a haunting and horrific world steeped in the history of weird fictions and wide-ranging folklores. Hellboy's World shows how our engagement with Hellboy's world is a highly aestheticized encounter with comics and their materiality. Scott Bukatman's dynamic study explores how comics produce a heightened "adventure of reading" in which syntheses of image and word, image sequences, and serial narratives create compelling worlds...

With a comics career dating back to 1941, including inking early issues of Captain America, Al Plastino was one of the last surviving penciler/inkers of his era. Laboring uncredited on Superman for two decades (1948-1968), he co-created Supergirl, Brainiac, and the Legion of Super-Heroes, drawing those characters’ first appearances, and illustrating the initial comics story to feature Kryptonite. He was called upon to help maintain the DC Comics house-style by redrawing other artists’ Superman h...

THE MLJ COMPANION documents the complete history of Archie Comics’ super-hero characters known as the “Mighty Crusaders”—The Shield, Black Hood, Steel Sterling, Hangman, Mr. Justice, The Fly, and many others. It features in-depth examinations of each era of the characters’ extensive history: The Golden Age (beginning with the Shield, the first patriotic super-hero, who pre-dated Captain America by a full year), the Silver Age (spotlighting those offbeat, campy Mighty Comics issues, and The Fly a...

In June of 1938, Action Comics debuted with a new kind of comic book character on its cover: a costumed man with two identities, who possessed extraordinary strength and powers-a man able to protect the public when ordinary measures would not do. He was not the first super hero, but the Man of Steel would become the prototype for all super heroes thereafter.Superman's story, and those of Batman, Wonder Woman, and hundreds of other DC Comics characters, are all told in The Golden Age of DC Comics...

TKO Studios presents a collection of nine bone-chilling and blood-curdling shorts by modern comic masters. A soldier faces a horror worse than death in the trenches. A space pioneer faces the hell of a false Eden of her own creation. A little boy's insomnia that haunts his entire life. Featuring stories by ... Liana Kangas, Joe Corallo, Paul Azaceta (SEEDS OF EDEN) Sebastian Girner, Baldemar Rivas (THE FATHER OF ALL THINGS) Steve Foxe, Lisandro Estherren (NIGHT TRAIN) Rob Pilkingt...

Marie Severin was born into a family of artists, and she made friendships incomics that have lasted a lifetime. She colored the horror, science fiction, andwar comics of the legendary EC line, and spent thirty years working for MarvelComics, doing everything from production and coloring to penciling, inking, andart direction, with work on characters including the Incredible Hulk,Sub-Mariner, Doctor Strange, and Kull the Conqueror, which she drew with herbrother John. She is renowned for her sens...

For its second issue, Comic Book Creator magazine — the newvoice of the comics medium — pays tribute to the late, great Joe Kubert ina 160-page, double-sized extravaganza! Squeezed between Kubert homage covers bySergio Cariello and Tim Truman, this Summer Special is entirely devoted to thelegendary comics creator who passed away in 2012. Included are comprehensiveexaminations of each facet of Joe's career: Golden Age fan-favorite artist, 3-Dcomics pioneer, pre-eminent war delineator, top artist-...

In the early 1940s, Matt Baker became of one the earliest African-Americancomic book artists. But it wasn’t the color of his skin which made himsuch a significant figure in the history of the medium — it was his innateability to draw gorgeous, exciting women and handsome, dynamic men in a fluid,graceful style. Imagine Dave Stevens or Adam Hughes working in the ’40s,drawing a new story every month, and you’ll have a good idea of MattBaker’s place in the industry throughout his career. Yet, few of...

Calvin and Hobbes is unquestionably one of the most popular comic strips of all time. The imaginative world of a boy and his real-only-to-him tiger was first syndicated in 1985 and appeared in more than 2,400 newspapers when Bill Watterson retired on January 1, 1996. Composed of three hardcover, four-colour volumes in a sturdy slipcase, this edition includes all Calvin and Hobbes cartoons that ever appeared in syndication. This is the treasure that all Calvin and Hobbes fans seek.

If you love comic strips, you’ll love this visual history of comic strips featuring all of the methods, techniques, and wizardry that made the funny pages such an important staple of American life. Featuring interviews with dozens of the century's most famous cartoonists and a foreword by bestselling author Michael Chabon. How Comics Were Made covers the entire history of newspaper comics from a unique angle—how they were made and printed. This book combines years of research and dozens of inte...