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Book SynopsisA lost, early classic of the graphic novel, now back in print for the first time since 1930.William Gropper was one of the great American cartoonists and illustrators of the twentieth century. A student of George Bellows and Robert Henri, he was a prolific newspaper cartoonist, WPA muralist, Guggenheim Fellow, and committed political activist--the first visual artist called before the House Un-American Activities Committee, after which he was blacklisted (though he got revenge with his pen). He was also a master of visual storytelling, best seen in his only full-length narrative work, Alay-Oop. First published in 1930, just as Gropper was coming to the height of his powers, this lost classic of the graphic novel presents an unusual love triangle: two circus acrobats and the honey-tongued schemer who comes between them. In page after page of charming, wordless art, Gropper takes us from the big top to bustling New York streets, from a cramped tenement apartment to the shifting landscape of a dream, as his characters struggle with the conflicting demands of career, family, and romance. A timeless and surprisingly modern yarn--with backflips aplenty.

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Book SynopsisOriginally published by Chicago''s Black press, long neglected by mainstream publishing, and now included in a Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago exhibition, these comics showcase some of the finest Black cartoonists.Between the 1940s and 1980s, Chicago?s Black press?from The Chicago Defender to the Negro Digest to self-published pamphlets?was home to some of the best cartoonists in America. Kept out of the pages of white-owned newspapers, Black cartoonists found space to address the joys, the horrors, and the everyday realities of Black life in America. From Jay Jackson?s anti-racist time travel adventure serial Bungleton Green, to Morrie Turner?s radical mixed-race strip Dinky Fellas, to the Afrofuturist comics of Yaoundé Olu and Turtel Onli, to National Book Award?winning novelist Charles Johnson?s blistering and deeply funny gag cartoons, this is work that has for far too long been excluded and overlooked. Also featuring the work of Tom Floyd, Seitu Hayden, Jackie Ormes, and Grass Green, this anthology accompanies the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago?s exhibition Chicago Comics: 1960 to Now, and is an essential addition to the history of American comics.The book''s cover is designed by Kerry James Marshall.Published in conjunction with the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, on the occasion of Chicago Comics: 1960s to Now,June 19?October 3, 2021. Curated by Dan Nadel.

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Book SynopsisMeet Bungleton Green?an anti-racist time traveler and the first-ever Black superhero, created more than a decade before characters such as Black Panther and Falcon.In 1942, almost a year after America entered the Second World War, Jay Jackson?a former railroad worker and sign painter, now working as a cartoonist and illustrator for the legendary Black newspaper the Chicago Defender?did something unexpected.He took the Defender?s stale and long-running gag strip Bungleton Green and remade it into a gripping, anti-racist science-fiction adventure comic. He teamed the bum- bling Green with a crew of Black teens called the Mystic Commandos, and together they battled the enemies of America and racial equality in the past, present, and future. Nazis, segregationist senators, Benedict Arnold, fifth columnists, eighteenth- century American slave traders, evil scientists, and a nation of racist Green Men all faced off against the Mystic Commandos and Green, who in the strip?s run would be transformed by Jackson into the first-ever Black superhero.Never before collected or republished, Jackson?s stories are packed with jaw-dropping twists and breathtaking action, and present a radical vision of a brighter American future.

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Book SynopsisNow in paperback, a collection of ?darkly humorous, existential, erotic, trance inducing? (The New York Times) short storiesby the lauded French comics artist Nicole Claveloux.Nicole Claveloux?s short stories?originally published in the late 1970s and never before collected in English?are among the most beautiful comics ever drawn: whimsical, intoxicating, with the freshness and splendor of dreams. In hallucinatory color or elegant black-and-white, she brings us into lands that are strange but oddly recognizable, filled with murderous grandmothers and lonely city dwellers, bad-tempered vegetables and walls that are surprisingly easy to fall through. In the title story, written with Edith Zha, a new houseplant becomes the first step in an epic journey of self-discovery and a witty fable of modern romance?complete with talking shrubbery, a wised-up genie, and one very depressed bird.This selection, designed and introduced by Daniel Clowes, presents the full achievement of an unforgettable, unjustly neglected master of French comics.

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Book SynopsisThe first arc of Nick Spencer's revitalised series featuring a modern take on Archie and the Riverdale cast of characters.

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Book SynopsisA deluxe hardcover edition of Mark Waid's new Archie stories - a must-have for every Riverdale fan!

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Book SynopsisArchie meets Back to the Future in this classic series from the late 80s and early 90s!

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