Anatomy of Comics: Famous Originals of Narrative Art - Softcover

MacDonald, Damien

Softcover

ISBN 10: 2080281879 ISBN 13: 9782080281876

Publisher: Flammarion, 2022

Synopsis

An illustrated history of the most important and exceptional comics of the past 150 years.

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About the Author

Damien MacDonald is a comic book illustrator and curator who published graphic novel adaptation of Victor Hugo’s Hunchback of Notre Dame. His work has been shown in museums and galleries in France, Norway, Belgium, China, and Monaco. He curated the Marginalia exhibition for the Nouveau Musée National de Monaco.

From the Back Cover

An illustrated history of the most important and exceptional comics of the past 150 years.

This fully-illustrated history of the world’s best comic strip art, including Hy Eisman’s The Katzenjammer Kids, which debuted in 1897, Charles Schultz’s Peanuts (1950), Peyo’s Smurfs (1958), Steve Ditko’s Spiderman (1962), Jack Kirby’s Black Panther (1966) or Bill Watterson’s Calvin and Hobbes (1985), or Chris Ware and his ACME Novelty Library (1993). The comics presented here have imagined fantastical worlds that have attracted generation after generation of devoted fans. A critical reference, this book is also a nostalgic celebration of the characters that have accompanied readers from their first forays into reading, through adolescence and throughout adulthood―from Mickey Mouse and Donald Duck to Tintin and Little Nemo, from the superhero franchises to postmodern works such as Art Speigelman’s Maus or the underground comics of Robert Crumb. Featuring 125 American and European artists, this is a gorgeous retrospective on one of the most richly creative forms of reading pleasure.

Edition details

• Publisher: Flammarion
• Publication date: 2022
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 2080281879
• ISBN 13: 9782080281876
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 256