Oversight: Collected Short Stories 1990-2005
Language: English
Published by Image Comics, Berkeley, CA, 2006
- Softcover
- Used
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Softcover without dust jacket. Ex-Library book with appropriate stamps, stickers and markings. Book tape to spine. Some wear noted to edge with slight curling to corners. Pages clean and unmarked with B & W illustrations to panels. Hester states "Many of the stories you are about to read, or at least start to, were done fairly early in my career as a funny book maker. At the time I felt my destiny was to become a well-respected, well paid mainstream superhero artist the likes of Alan Davis or Jim Lee. The fact that I could not draw as well as those gentlemen never pierced my fog of self-deception. The stories in this collection were larks, sideshows, passing nods to some dark artistic impulse I needed to purge on my way to the Wizard top ten list. My real work was the superhero stuff the paying gigs! Well, I was wrong. Really wrong. Looking back objectively, my superhero work from the same era is completely forgettable. This stuff--these short stories more accurately reflected my skills and goals as a storyteller, for better or worse".…
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- Title
- Oversight: Collected Short Stories 1990-2005
- Author
- Hester, Phil
- Publisher
- Image Comics, Berkeley, CA
- Publication year
- 2006
- Condition
- Good
- Dust jacket
- No Jacket
- Binding
- Soft cover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 1582405778
- ISBN 13
- 9781582405773
- Illustrator
- Phillip Hester
- Item weight
- 372 grams
- Dimensions
- 16.76 centimeters width by 25.4 centimeters height by 1.27 centimeters depth
- From the creator of The Atheist, The Coffin, Deep Sleeper and the artist of Green Arrow and Nightwing comes a complete ― and long overdue ― collection of this amazing talent's short story work from the last decade and a half! See why this hardworking and prolific writer/artist is considered by his peers as one of the top talents in the industry today and why he's Hollywood's new Golden Boy!
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