Bomb Run and Other Stories: 9 (The Fantagraphics EC Comics Artists Library) - Hardcover

Severin, John; Elder, Will; Kurtzman, Harvey

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1606997491 ISBN 13: 9781606997499

Publisher: Fantagraphics Books, 2014

Synopsis

The team of Harvey Kurtzman and John Severin was one of the most fruitful collaborations in the history of comics. The work they did together brings the gritty realism and psychological truth of Stephen Crane and a verisimilitude to the page that it seems as if they are reporting from the scene. Together with inker and friend Will Elder, whose own obsession for detail perfectly complemented the impact they were all striving to achieve, they produced 34 emotionally draining — and dramatically eloquent — war stories in just under three years. This book collects them all. Settings include: the Roman empire; the Revolutionary War; the American-Indian Wars; the Alamo; the Civil War; World War I (in the trenches and in the air); World War II (in the Pacific and in Europe, including the D-Day invasion); and the Korean War.

About this title

About the Authors

John Powers Severin (1921-2012), who had a "realistic" comics style, specialized in war, western, and humor comics. One of Mad's founding artists, he worked for with Cracked magazine for forty-five years.

In addition to his pioneering work on the "serious" EC war comics, Harvey Kurtzman (1924-1993) created the all-time greatest satirical comic (with Mad), the most widely-read adult comic strip (with "Little Annie Fanny" in Playboy), and one of the earliest graphic novels (with the 1959 The Jungle Book).

Will Elder was an American illustrator and comic book artist who worked in numerous areas of commercial art but is best known for a frantically funny cartoon style that helped launch Harvey Kurtzman's Mad comic book in 1952. He was inducted into the Comic Book Hall of Fame in 2003.

From the Back Cover

"INTO THE HELL OF BATTLE WITH SEVERIN, ELDER, AND KURTZMAN The team of Harvey Kurtzman and John Severin was one of the most fruitful collaborations in the history of comics. The work they did combines the taut emotional and psychological insights of Stephen Crane with a verisimilitude so gritty that it seems as if they are reporting from the scene. Together with inker and friend Will Elder, whose own obsession for detail perfectly heightened the impact of every line, they produced 34 war stories - emotionally draining and dramatically eloquent - in just under three years. This book collects them all. Settings include: the Roman empire

Edition details

• Publisher: Fantagraphics Books
• Publication date: 2014
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1606997491
• ISBN 13: 9781606997499
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 264