Download or read book Comic Books Incorporated written by Shawna Kidman and published by University of California Press. This book was released on 2019-04-30 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Comic Books Incorporated tells the story of the US comic book business, reframing the history of the medium through an industrial and transmedial lens. Comic books wielded their influence from the margins and in-between spaces of the entertainment business for half a century before moving to the center of mainstream film and television production. This extraordinary history begins at the medium’s origin in the 1930s, when comics were a reviled, disorganized, and lowbrow mass medium, and surveys critical moments along the way—market crashes, corporate takeovers, upheavals in distribution, and financial transformations. Shawna Kidman concludes this revisionist history in the early 2000s, when Hollywood had fully incorporated comic book properties and strategies into its business models and transformed the medium into the heavily exploited, exceedingly corporate, and yet highly esteemed niche art form we know so well today.
Download or read book Green Lantern Rebirth 2010 4 written by Geoff Johns and published by DC Comics. This book was released on 2010-06-23 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the deadliest villains in the DCU returns: Parallax! Things continue to twist and turn for John Stewart, Guy Gardner and Kilowog as they come face to face with their greatest enemy--the man who destroyed the Green Lanterns. Meanwhile, Green Arrow struggles to find a way to stop Parallax as the JLA, the JSA and the Teen Titans join the fight!
Download or read book Comic Con and the Business of Pop Culture What the World s Wildest Trade Show Can Tell Us About the Future of Entertainment written by Rob Salkowitz and published by McGraw Hill Professional. This book was released on 2012-06-22 with total page 343 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Comic-Con phenomenon—and what it means for your business The annual trade show Comic-Con International isn’t just fun and games. According to award-winning business author and futurist Rob Salkowitz it’s a “massive focus group and marketing megaphone” for Hollywood—and in Comic-Con and the Business of Pop Culture, he examines the business of popular culture through the lens of Comic-Con. Salkowitz offers an entertaining and substantive look at the show, providing a close look at the comic-book and videogame industries’ expanding influence on marketing, merchandising, and the entertainment industry. Rob Salkowitz is founder and Principle Consultant for the communications firm MediaPlant, LLC.
Download or read book Schulz and Peanuts written by David Michaelis and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2008-10-07 with total page 674 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Charles M. Schulz, the most widely syndicated and beloved cartoonist of all time, is also one of the least understood figures in American culture. Now, acclaimed biographer David Michaelis gives us the first full-length biography of the brilliant, unseen man behind Peanuts: at once a creation story, a portrait of a native genius, and a chronicle contrasting the private man with the central role he played in shaping the national imagination. Schulz and Peanuts is the definitive epic biography of an American icon and the unforgettable characters he created.
Download or read book Comics Startup 101 written by Dirk Vanover and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-02-24 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Comics Startup 101 is a quick guide to some of the most important legal and business issues comic book creators should be aware of as they start their careers. The book tackles the use of contracts, contract negotiation, business formation, intellectual property, and other key issues.
Download or read book Night Business written by Benjamin Marra and published by Fantagraphics Books. This book was released on 2017-12-06 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this 1980s-trash-culture homage, only one man can save strippers from a serial murderer; this volume collects the cult comic book series with its unpublished-until-now conclusion. Can Johnny Timothy mete out his vengeance before more innocent victims have to die? Night Business is Marra’s longest graphic novel to date: a nasty brew of power, passion, vigilantes, and dangerous men raining street justice down upon their enemies.
Download or read book The Writer s Guide to the Business of Comics written by Lurene Haines and published by Watson-Guptill Publications. This book was released on 1998 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides an overview of the comic book industry, tips to improve writing skills, ways to prepare writing samples, and tips on approaching potential employers
Download or read book The Marvel Studios Story written by Charlie Wetzel and published by HarperCollins Leadership. This book was released on 2020-05-26 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What can you learn from the world’s most successful companies? Marvel characters have been shaping pop culture for decades and when comic books were no longer keeping the company afloat, Marvel Studios was born. Marvel Studios is the multibillion-dollar home to iconic franchises. They are known for creating brilliant multilayered worlds and storylines that allow their audiences to escape into a fantasy and inspire the creative side of every viewer. But, behind those visionaries is a well-oiled storytelling machine dedicated to getting the Hulk’s smash fists in the hands of every child and a sea of Spiderman costumes deployed every Halloween. The Marvel Studios Story educates you on how one of the largest creative companies in the planetary universe runs their business and keeps their fans and their parent company, Disney, counting the profits. Through the story of Marvel Studios, you’ll learn: How to recognize and pursue additional revenue streams. How a company can successfully balance the creative with business to appease investors and fans alike. And how to keep a decades-old superhero franchise new and exciting without losing sight of its roots. The Marvel Studios Story will help you understand and adopt the competitive strategies, workplace culture, and daily business practices that enabled a struggling comic book publisher to parlay the power of myth and storytelling to become one of history’s most successful movie studios.
Download or read book Business Cat Hostile Takeovers written by Tom Fonder and published by Andrews McMeel Publishing. This book was released on 2019-05-07 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After clawing his way to the top of the corporate world, Business Cat's professional standing is secure — or is it? Following a surprise audit from the IRS and some nefarious scheming by his executive rival, a business dog named Howard, things go downhill fast. Business Cat's exile from the C-suite isn't always pretty — he winds up in temp jobs, alleys, foster homes, and the kennel — but it is always entertaining. Author Tom Fonder's story of Business Cat's remarkable journey provides a thrilling conclusion to the series, and one office workers, cat lovers, and comics fans will cheer on to the finish.
Download or read book Comic Business written by Martin Revermann and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2006-05-18 with total page 419 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Comic Business situates Aristophanic comedy in the context of competitive (re)performance culture in 5th- and 4th-century Greece. It seeks to illuminate how the dazzling busyness of Aristophanic comedy is the creation of a carefully manipulating craftsman trying to outdo his rivals in the fierce competition of the dramatic festivals. Theoretically informed by theatre semiotics and frame-based models of conceptualizing the theatrical event, it analyses in a number of casestudies how theatrical resources of all kinds are utilized in order to generate theatrical meaning as well as capture and sustain audience interest. The approach therefore combines philological analysis with methodologies developed in Theatre Studies. Special attention is given to the visual dimension oftheatrical communication. Material from comparator traditions is brought to bear, as is the evidence of the pictorial record.
Download or read book Tilting at Windmills written by Brian Hibbs and published by IDW Publishing. This book was released on 2003 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Columns the author wrote for Comics Retailer magazine.
Download or read book Holy F ck written by Nick Marino and published by Holy F*ck Tp. This book was released on 2015-05-12 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sister Maria has recruited two horny drug-fueled weirdos to stop the apocalypse. Their names? Jesus and Satan. Can these biblical frenemies help this nun with a gun defeat an army of pissed off mythological gods? Only one thing's for sure -- it's gonna be a wild ride Collecting the controversially-contagious Holy F*ck #1-4.
Download or read book Access Guide to the Black Comic Book Community 2020 2021 written by Joseph Illidge and published by . This book was released on 2021-02-17 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The questions of who, what, where, when, and why are the basic foundations of journalistic and research endeavors.The Access Guide To the Black Comic Book Community is a new sourcebook to provide answers for comic book fans, old and new. This handy reference guide is more than a directory of Black comic book creators and the stories they produce. It is a road map for the uninitiated and the veteran comic book reader alike, to find the publishers, stores and conventions that provide kinship, safe spaces, and promote an imaginative variety of experiences through comic books!
Download or read book The Hero Business written by Bill Walko and published by . This book was released on 2022-03 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Imagine your office, bitten by a radioactive spider.That's The Hero Business, a comic chronicling the day-to-day adventures of an agency that caters exclusively to superheroes (and their super-egos). In season three, all the power plays come crashing down! Can the staff put a pin in their personal problems long enough to defeat the final boss? This collection features eight storylines, guest comics, secret sketches and more!
Download or read book How to Self publish Your Own Comic Book written by Tony Caputo and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How to Self-Publish Your Own Comic Bookis the only reference of its kind, providing complete information on all aspects of the comic book industry and publishing process. Included are sections on: • Getting started • Securing trademarks and copyrights • Comic book creation • Printers and color separators • Contracts • Distribution and sales • Marketing strategies • Promotions and public relations • Budgeting and bookkeeping • Acquiring needed capital • Buying and selling secondary rights Rounding out the volume is a helpful appendix listing that includes the names and addresses of recommended printers, distributors, foreign publishers, comic book industry publications, domestic and foreign comic specialty shops, and related computer resources, making this a truly unique reference that no self-publisher should be without.
Download or read book Comic Book Rebels written by Stan Wiater and published by Dutton Adult. This book was released on 1993 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Creators include; Scott McCloud, Larry Marder, Richard Corben, Jack Jackson, Lee Mars, Howard Cruse, Denis Kitchen, Kevin Eastman & Peter Laird, Dave Sim, Harvey Pekar & Joyce Brabner, Alan Moore, Jean "Moebius" Giraud, Addie Campbell, Neil Gaiman, Dave McKean, Frank Miller, Colleen Doran, Rick Veitch, Todd McFarlane, Will Eisner. Also included is McCloud's bill of rights for comic creators.
Download or read book Comic Book History of Comics written by Fred Van Lente and published by IDW Publishing. This book was released on 2012-06-20 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For the first time ever, the inspiring, infuriating, and utterly insane story of comics, graphic novels, and manga is presented in comic book form! The award-winning Action Philosophers team of Fred Van Lente and Ryan Dunlavey turn their irreverent-but-accurate eye to the stories of Jack Kirby, R. Crumb, Harvey Kurtzman, Alan Moore, Stan Lee, Will Eisner, Fredric Wertham, Roy Lichtenstein, Art Spiegelman, Herge, Osamu Tezuka - and more! Collects Comic Book Comics #1-6.
