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Taschen GmbH Marvel Comics Library. Spider-Man. Vol. 2.
Book SynopsisTheir collaboration on Spider-Man couldn’t last forever—but the five-years of Stan Lee and Steve Ditko’s remarkable partnership lasted long enough for their character to evolve into a timeless icon and create a fandom that would last generations. TASCHEN’s second volume of Amazing Spider-Man stories collects the latter half of the duo’s magnum opus, featuring brand new arch-villains the Scorpion, Molten Man, and the Crime-Master, return engagements with Kraven the Hunter and the Green Goblin—and the three-part “Master Planner Saga” that reignited a feud with an iconic mystery villain, and left behind what many comics critics declare to be the greatest super hero story of all time. Beyond the action that faced Spider-Man—all choreographed with aplomb by the master stylist Ditko—there was also the matter of Peter Parker’s maturation during a decade of social upheaval and change. With Stan Lee’s blend of soap opera melodramatics and finger-on-the-pulse social sensitivities, Peter graduated from high school to college and started to deal with a myriad of adult struggles, mirroring the life experiences of the book’s readership. A scrawny teenager no more, Lee and Ditko would widen his network of friends and frenemies, debuting Gwen Stacy, Harry Osborn, and, in a series of hilarious cameos, Mary Jane Watson—all characters that would develop into one of the deepest and most substantive supporting casts in all of comics. Also introduced is Harry’s father, Norman Osborn, the short-tempered industrialist who would later be revealed as Spider-Man’s most dreaded foe. Meanwhile, Peter’s up-and-down romance with Betty Brant would reach its culmination with both changed forever. Collected in an XXL-size volume that closely simulates the size and proportions of the original comic artboards, all individual issues have been sourced from the collection of Bob Bretall, holder of the Guinness World Record for largest comics collection. Bretall’s pedigreed collection has been photographed using TASCHEN’s sterling reproduction methods, resembling the way these comics first looked when initially published in 1965 and 1966, while also being digitally remastered using modern retouching techniques to correct problems with the era’s inexpensive, imperfect printing. A custom paper stock was exclusively developed for this series to simulate the newsprint feel and color holding of the original comics. The Marvel Comics Library has earned well-deserved raves from comic collecting diehards for combining an old school comic book reading experience with a luxurious oversized book format, winning the industry’s coveted Eisner Award for Best Publication Design. Complementing the comics is an incisive and often side-splitting essay by British TV and radio host Jonathan Ross. Accompanying his essay is a gallery of original art, photographs, rarities, and other ephemera of the era. © 2023 MARVELTrade Review“A chance for readers to own some of the most influential comics of all times in modern editions.” * Comics Beat *“TASCHEN’s Marvel Comics Library represents a sincere respect and appreciation for comics history.” * Comic Book Resources *
£142.50
Taschen GmbH EC Comics. The New Trend 195054. 45th Ed.
£21.25
Transcript Verlag Beyond Narrative: Exploring Narrative Liminality
Book SynopsisThis book calls for an investigation of the "borderlands of narrativity" the complex and culturally productive area where the symbolic form of narrative meets other symbolic logics, such as data(base), play, spectacle, or ritual. It opens up a conversation about the "beyond" of narrative, about the myriad constellations in which narrativity interlaces with, rubs against, or morphs into the principles of other forms. To conceptualise these borderlands, the book introduces the notion of "narrative liminality", which the 16 articles utilize to engage literature, popular culture, digital technology, historical artifacts, and other kinds of texts from a time span of close to 200 years.Table of ContentsOverview; Borderlands of Narrativity; Numbers, Literature, Aesthetics; The Data of Life and the Life of Data; The Potentialities of Data; Unnecessary Complications?; Narrative Liminality, Ambient Operations, and the Database Western in Rockstar Games' Red Dead Redemption Videogames; Detecting Liminality; "To Live Your Life Again, Turn to Page 1"; Multimodality as a Limit of Narrative in Mark Z. Danielewski's The Familiar; The Poetics and Politics of Staring; "No Show Dissed Quite Like This One"; Repetition, Rhythm, and Recital; Home Front Autobiographies of the 'War on Terror'; Form and/in Modernity; Embodying Narrative, Staging Icons; Narrating Authorship; Endings and Sustainability; Contributors.
£45.04
V&R unipress GmbH Krieg in Comic, Graphic Novel und Literatur II
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£42.99
V&R unipress GmbH Remarque Revisited: Beiträge zu Erich Maria
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£42.99
V&R unipress GmbH Doing Memory Revisited: Transmediale und
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£57.06
Die Gestalten Verlag Paper. Pen. Pandemic.
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£21.24
Edition Lammerhuber Don Rosa - I Still Get Chills!: The Amazing Life
Book SynopsisDon Rosa is one of the world's most popular cartoonists. For over 20 years he kept up the duck universe of his idol Carl Barks with his stories about Scrooge McDuck, Donald Duck and the Beagle Boys Inc. He is adored for his detailed duck adventures. His biography The Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck earned him immortality and an Eisner Award. But who is the man behind the ducks? Don Rosa - I Still Get Chills! has the answers. It is published in honour of Don Rosa's 66th and Scrooge McDuck's 70th birthday. And what's more, Don Rosa himself lent a hand with this book, commenting on photos and drawings, creating typical Don Rosa quotes and turning it into a unique Don Rosa work.
£41.25
Pie International Co., Ltd. Honojiro Towoji Illustration Works
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£15.99
Pie International Co., Ltd. Honojiro Towoji Shikinomemorie Poster Book
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£20.69
Pie International Co., Ltd. The Art of Yoco: For Eternity and a Second
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£18.39
Pie International Co., Ltd. New Retro Illustrations: Retro Reimagined by a
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£20.00
Pie International Co., Ltd. Mysterious Scenes from a Dark Fantasy World:
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£20.62
Pie International Co., Ltd. GODZILLA: History of Formative Arts 1954-2016
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£60.00
Pie International Co., Ltd. embroidery: The Art of Yoshioka
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£18.39
Pie International Co., Ltd. Flexible: The Art of Yo Shimizu
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£22.49
Pie International Co., Ltd. hyka reoenl Artwork: International Edition
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£26.25
Pie International Co., Ltd. Etoile: The World of Princesses & Heroines by
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£37.50
Pie International Co., Ltd. VSI: Wataboku Art Book
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£26.25
Pie International Co., Ltd. Makura Kurama Illustration Card Book
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£24.00
Divus Rip
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£24.30
Instituto Monsa de Ediciones Manga Inspired
Book SynopsisThis superbly illustrated volume brings together the work of some the world's best manga illustrators, showcasing their exceptional talent across a diverse range of manga styles - such as Chibi, Kodomo, Shojo, Seinen, and more. The work of each artist is accompanied by a brief biography in which they reveal their inspirations, the challenges they face when creating work, and the processes and materials they use.
£14.39
Skira Stupidity Exercise Manual
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£6.60
Lannoo Publishers Draw for Change: Six female cartoonists
Book SynopsisSix women, six stories. They make cartoons and graphic work in the besieged Syrian city of Idlib or unfree Egypt of President al-Sisi, they fight fat shaming and homophobia in Mexico, are on the run from president Putin, criticise Hindu nationalism and misogyny from Indian Prime Minister Modi or defy the powers that be in The Washington Post. Whether they are from Mexico, the USA, Syria, Egypt, India or Russia, they all belong to the absolute world top. But the way to the top was not an easy one for any of them.
£24.75
Dark Dragon Books B.V. The Best Of Mike Ratera
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£16.99
MER Paper Kunsthalle Cylinder 2
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£10.00
Marshall Cavendish International (Asia) Pte Ltd Fight Through Cartoons: My story of harassment,
Book SynopsisThis book chronicles Zunar’s fight through cartoons from 2009 to 2018. Peppered within the pages of this book are some of Zunar’s timeless philosophies on cartooning, which have kept him going despite the odds stacked against him – arrests, court charges, banning of books, travel ban. In this book, Zunar also sheds light on the methodological approach he utilises in his cartoons to effectively deliver his messages. From the conception of a cartoon right down to inking it, Zunar bares what goes on his mind when he draws these cartoons. From being labelled controversial to becoming an award winning cartoonist, this is Zunar’s fight through cartoons in his own words.
£13.59
Blacksmith Books Hong Kong Sweet & Sour
Book SynopsisFrench artist Zabo arrived in Hong Kong in 1967, and condensed his year-long stay into a book of cartoons which has come to be known as an emblem of the era. Hong Kongs street scenes, people and fashions are humorously illustrated with sharp satire, covering popular pastimes, social etiquette, age-old traditions and the customs of local people as well as foreign residents. Even half a century later, Zabos portrayal of Hong Kong still rings true, and his take on local life will resonate with everyone who lived through the Swinging Sixties or wishes they had.
£10.44
Europe Books CACA BAILARINA LA
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£13.42
Europe Books DOGGY ME THE FUN DAY OUT BUILD UNIVERSES
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£7.49
Independently Published Coloring Harmony
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£8.54
Insight Editions Black Panther The Illustrated History
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£19.54
Insight Editions DC Comics Anatomy of a Metahuman
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£42.53
PM Press Mr. Block: The Subversive Comics and Writing of
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£18.69
