Download or read book Esar s Comic Dictionary written by Evan Esar and published by . This book was released on 2013-10 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a new release of the original 1943 edition.
Download or read book A Concise Dictionary of Comics written by Nancy Pedri and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 2022-03-08 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written in straightforward, jargon-free language, A Concise Dictionary of Comics guides students, researchers, readers, and educators of all ages and at all levels of comics expertise. It provides them with a dictionary that doubles as a compendium of comics scholarship. A Concise Dictionary of Comics provides clear and informative definitions for each term. It includes twenty-five witty illustrations and pairs most defined terms with references to books, articles, book chapters, and other relevant critical sources. All references are dated and listed in an extensive, up-to-date bibliography of comics scholarship. Each term is also categorized according to type in an index of thematic groupings. This organization serves as a pedagogical aid for teachers and students learning about a specific facet of comics studies and as a research tool for scholars who are unfamiliar with a particular term but know what category it falls into. These features make A Concise Dictionary of Comics especially useful for critics, students, teachers, and researchers, and a vital reference to anyone else who wants to learn more about comics.
Download or read book Ka BOOM written by Kevin J. Taylor and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2006 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shouldn't all dictionaries start with AAAA and end with ZZZZZZZTZZZTZZZ? Ka-BOOM! does: it's a collection of sound effects from comic books, each one rigorously defined and cross referenced. Nowhere has the art of onomatopoeia been raised to higher heights than in the humble comic book.
Download or read book Esar s Comic Dictionary written by Evan Esar and published by . This book was released on 1951 with total page 315 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Accountants Comic Dictionary written by E. E. Hines and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Super Dictionary written by and published by Henry Holt Books For Young Readers. This book was released on 1978-01-01 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: More than 4000 alphabetically-arranged words are defined within story sentences involving Wonder Woman, Aquaman, Flash, and other super heros.
Download or read book The Liar s Dictionary written by Eley Williams and published by Anchor. This book was released on 2021-01-05 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NATIONAL BESTSELLER • “You wouldn’t expect a comic novel about a dictionary to be a thriller too, but this one is. In fact, [it] is also a mystery, love story (two of them) and cliffhanging melodrama.” —The New York Times Book Review An award-winning novel that chronicles the charming misadventures of a lovelorn Victorian lexicographer and the young woman put on his trail a century later to root out his misdeeds while confronting questions of her own sexuality and place in the world. Mountweazel n. the phenomenon of false entries within dictionaries and works of reference. Often used as a safeguard against copyright infringement. In the final year of the nineteenth century, Peter Winceworth is toiling away at the letter S for Swansby’s multivolume Encyclopaedic Dictionary. But his disaffection with his colleagues compels him to assert some individual purpose and artistic freedom, and he begins inserting unauthorized, fictitious entries. In the present day, Mallory, the publisher’s young intern, starts to uncover these mountweazels in the process of digitization and through them senses their creator’s motivations, hopes, and desires. More pressingly, she’s also been contending with a threatening, anonymous caller who wants Swansby’s staff to “burn in hell.” As these two narratives coalesce, Winceworth and Mallory, separated by one hundred years, must discover how to negotiate the complexities of life’s often untrustworthy, hoax-strewn, and undefinable path. An exhilarating, laugh-out-loud debut, The Liar’s Dictionary celebrates the rigidity, fragility, absurdity, and joy of language while peering into questions of identity and finding one’s place in the world.
Download or read book Ka Boom written by Kevin Taylor and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2018-07-26 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shouldn't all dictionaries start with AAAA and end with ZZZZZZZTZZ-ZTZZZ? Ka-BOOM! does: it's a collection of sound effects from comic books, each one rigorously defined and cross referenced. Nowhere has the art of onomatopoeia been raised to higher heights than in the humble comic book. --TIME Digital Vol.5 No.5 /// Hey, comic book fans, good news. At long last there's a new dictionary and thesaurus of those odd words you only find in comics. KA-BOOM!: A Dictionary of Comic Book Words, Symbols & Onomatopoeia..., compiled by Kevin J. Taylor, covers all those comic words, sounds and also includes the companion work BZZURKK! The Thesaurus of Champions. Want to know what RINK-RIK means, how about BRAKK or KLUD? This book holds your answers. Taylor, who put 10 years of work into this compilation, has cited the comic books where the sound effects were used, cross referenced entries and defined them. The thesaurus is a quick guide, minus the definitions. An appendix gives a list of base forms, which is interesting in itself, particularly as some base words have either extra letters or missing letters to indicate such attributes as magnitude, volume or duration of the sound. Before you dismiss this work as too esoteric to be much use, it's worth noting that comic books encourage reluctant readers to read more and some teachers have found the book to be useful in vocabulary lessons, such as A. Simpson, an English language arts teacher from West Virginia. She said she wants to incorporate a lesson where students create their own dictionaries in the vein of KA-BOOM! --The Now Newspaper /// I love comic book words, those strange collisions of consonants meant to convey the sounds of explosions or fists thudding into abdomens or minor super heroes being electrocuted. Kevin Taylor likes them even more, enough to have compiled an entire dictionary, from "AAAA!", a cry of pain from Dare Devil - The Man Without Fear (Vol.1, issue 3, 1993) to "ZZZZZZZTZZZTZZZ", the sound of mechanical parts coming undone, from Dead Pool: The Circle Chase (Issue 4, 1993). --The Sydney Morning Herald /// Kevin J. Taylor is a West Coast author and poet.
Download or read book Comic Dictionary written by Evan Esar and published by . This book was released on 1943 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Most Important Comic Book on Earth written by Cara Delevingne and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2021-11-09 with total page 351 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 120 inspiring visual stories on environmentalism from key figures, charities, activists, and artists. The Most Important Comic Book On Earth is a global collaboration for planetary change, bringing together a diverse team of 300 leading environmentalists, artists, authors, actors, filmmakers, musicians, and more to present over 120 stories to save the world. Whether it’s inspirational tales from celebrity names such as Cara Delevingne and Andy Serkis, hilarious webcomics from War and Peas and Ricky Gervais, artworks by leading illustrators David Mack and Tula Lotay, calls to action from activists George Monbiot and Jane Goodall, or powerful stories by Brian Azzarello and Amy Chu, each of the comics in this anthology will support projects and organizations fighting to save the planet and Rewrite Extinction.
Download or read book A Concise Dictionary of Comics written by Nancy Pedri and published by . This book was released on 2022-03-15 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A superb compendium of definitions for over one thousand terms related to comics studies, collecting, and publishing
Download or read book Keywords for Comics Studies written by Ramzi Fawaz and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2021-06-08 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Introduces key terms, research traditions, debates, and histories, and offers a sense of the new frontiers emerging in the field of comics studies Across more than fifty original essays, Keywords for Comics Studies provides a rich, interdisciplinary vocabulary for comics and sequential art. The essays also identify new avenues of research into one of the most popular and diverse visual media of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Keywords for Comics Studies presents an array of inventive analyses of terms central to the study of comics and sequential art that are traditionally siloed in distinct lexicons: these include creative and aesthetic terms like Ink, Creator, Border, and Panel; conceptual terms such as Trans*, Disability, Universe, and Fantasy; genre terms like Zine, Pornography, Superhero, and Manga; and canonical terms like X-Men, Archie, Watchmen, and Love and Rockets. This volume ties each specific comic studies keyword to the larger context of the term within the humanities. Essays demonstrate how scholars, cultural critics, and comics artists from a range of fields take up sequential art as both an object of analysis and a medium for developing new theories about embodiment, identity, literacy, audience reception, genre, cultural politics, and more. Keywords for Comics Studies revivifies the fantasy and magic of reading comics in its kaleidoscopic view of the field’s most compelling and imaginative ideas.
Download or read book Key Terms in Comics Studies written by Erin La Cour and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2022-01-03 with total page 391 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Key Terms in Comics Studies is a glossary of over 300 terms and critical concepts currently used in the Anglophone academic study of comics, including those from other languages that are currently adopted and used in English. Written by nearly 100 international and contemporary experts from the field, the entries are succinctly defined, exemplified, and referenced. The entries are 250 words or fewer, placed in alphabetical order, and explicitly cross-referenced to others in the book. Key Terms in Comics Studies is an invaluable tool for both students and established researchers alike.
Download or read book The Comic Strip Big Fat Book of Knowledge written by Tracey Turner and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2012-02-14 with total page 30 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides comic-illustrated introductions to a wide variety of subjects, from the microscopic world and the mythologies that shaped world cultures to the evolution of the planet and the secrets of the known universe.
Download or read book The comic dictionary written by Arthur Bernhard Smith and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Comic Encyclopedia written by Evan Esar and published by Doubleday Books. This book was released on 1978 with total page 896 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Here at last is the first genuine encyclopedia of comedy ever published. Its range is enormous. It explores the comedy behind history, the arts, language, literature, entertainments. And on almost every page you will find amusing items, from jokes to anecdotes, from wisecracks to gaglines. The thousand and one articles describe the performers of laughter--humorists, punsters, satirists, comedians, cartoonists. They also explain the science of comedy. The text mingles historical events and funny stories with thousands of specimens of wit and humor.--Jacket flap.
