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We told you so : comics as art / editors, Tom Spurgeon, Michael Dean.
LIBRA PN6725 .W4 2016
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Fantagraphics Books.
- Comic books, strips, etc--United States--History and criticism.
- Comic books, strips, etc.
- Cartooning.
- History.
- United States.
- Publishers and publishing--United States--History.
- Publishers and publishing.
- Cartoonists--United States--Interviews.
- Cartoonists.
- Cartooning--United States--History.
- Genre:
- Interviews.
- Comics (Graphic works)
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- History.
- Physical Description:
- 696 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 27 cm
- Other Title:
- Comics as art
- Subtitle appears on front cover as: Oral history of Fantagraphics Books
- Place of Publication:
- Seattle, Washington : Fantagraphics Books, [2016]
- Summary:
- In 1976, a group of young men and women coalesced around a fledgling magazine and the idea that comics could be art. In 2016, comics intended for an adult readership are reviewed favorably in the New York Times, enjoy panels devoted to them at Book Expo America, and sell in bookstores comparable to prose efforts of similar weight and intent. Comics As Art: We Told You So tells of Fantagraphics Books' key role in helping build and shape an art movement around a discredited, ignored and fading expression of Americana the way insiders share the saga with one another other: in anecdotal form, in the words of the people who lived it and saw it happen. Comics historian and critic Tom Spurgeon and longtime Comics Journal editor Michael Dean assemble an all-star cast of industry figures, critics, cartoonists, art objects, curios, and groundbreaking publications to bring you a detailed account of Fantagraphics' first 40 years. Comics as Art is a detailed catalog of the look of a cultural awakening. It's a story that includes appearances by Chris Ware, Art Spiegelman, Harlan Ellison, Jim Shooter, Stan Lee, Dan Clowes, Frank Miller, Peter Bagge, Jaime Hernandez, Gilbert Hernandez, Dave Sim, Steve Geppi, Todd McFarlane and every other major figure in the arts or business end of modern comics. More than a corporate history or a fond look back, Comics As Art: We Told You So makes the warts-and-all case for Fantagraphics Books' position near the heart of the modern reclamation of the comics art form.
- Contents:
- A few words from R. Crumb
- Comics by Tim Hensley and Kim Deitch
- Conning people into taking us seriously
- What happened to that nice kid, Dr. Jekyll?
- Comics by Paul Karasik and Ho Che Anderson
- Everything was in season
- Pott shots / by Scott Pellegrini
- Lawsuit hell
- The first for 1st Amendment rights / by Joe Sacco
- Personal comments : jurors' recollections / by Joe Sacco
- Off the roof into the pool
- Green skies above / by Kim Thompson
- Abridged editorial from Prime cuts #1 / by Gary Groth
- Comics by Roberta Gregory, Roger Langridge, Carol Lay, Mary Fleener, David Sandlin, Johnny Ryan, Colleen Coover, Carol Swain, Rick Altergott, Bill Griffith
- This is the way they run their business?
- The varieties of Love and rockets
- Comics by Jaime Hernandez and Gilbert Hernandez
- It seemed like a sellout
- The Fanta grunge connection
- O come, all ye faithful
- Comics by Robert Goodin, Noah Van Sciver, Leslie Stein, R.O. Blechman, Lane Milburn, Zak Sally, Al Jaffee, Arnold Roth, Steven Weissman, Frank Stack
- Fantagraphics vs. everyone
- Tighten your helmet
- Comics and stories / by Michael Dean
- Talking with Gary Groth
- Film school confidential / by Eric Reynolds
- This new and ominous century
- You're complete, Charlie Brown!
- Comics by Simon Hanselmann, Joe Daly, Dash Shaw, Ed Luce, Daishu Ma, Andrice Arp, Steve Brodner
- In the office and at the store
- Kim Thompson, 1956-2013
- Comics by Pat Moriarity, Ellen Forney, and Eric Reynolds
- The road to Fantagraphics
- Full circle.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the George R. Gund Memorial Fund.
- ISBN:
- 9781606999332
- 1606999338
- OCLC:
- 923850689
- Publisher Number:
- 99970045545
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