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Book Meanwhile

Download or read book Meanwhile written by R.C. Harvey and published by Fantagraphics Books. This book was released on 2007-07-12 with total page 955 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The comprehensive biography of one of the 20th century's most influential cartoonists, the legendary creator of Steve Canyon and Terry and the Pirates. This book analyzes his storytelling techniques, examines his artistic innovations and work routines, and serves as a history of the medium. Milton Caniff was one of the most influential American cartoonists of the 20th century. He rose to prominence during World War II when he took the characters in his Terry and the Pirates strip into the war. The trenchant pragmatic patriotism of the strip warmed hearts and steeled nerves on the home front as well as the battlefront (one of his strips was read into the Congressional Record). He went on to create Steve Canyon, which was syndicated from 1947 to Caniff's death in 1988. Meanwhile... traces Caniff's life from the cradle to the grave, examining the artistic innovations and work routines of a nationally distributed cartoonist whose career was central to the development of the art form, and marking the milestones in the development of the comic strip that Caniff established. Caniff reshaped the medium and set standards by which all storytelling strips were subsequently judged. He created many colorful characters, including the stalwart Pat Ryan from Terry and the Pirates, Burma the shady lady, and, most memorable of all, the Dragon Lady, a beautiful but mysteriously menacing pirate queen who turned Chinese patriot during the War. WhileMeanwhile... provides a biography of Caniff and analyzes his storytelling techniques, it also serves as a history of the medium and reveals the inner workings of the syndicate business (at which Caniff was as expert as he was at cartooning). The book charts Caniff's rise to fame and fortune, then recounts the decline of his stripSteve Canyon's popularity (whose protagonist served as an unofficial spokesman for the U.S. Air Force from the Korean War until the end of the strip in 1988) when the same brand of patriotism that had inspired admiration during World War II provoked protest during Vietnam, a bittersweet conclusion to a career spent producing a daily feature for 55 years, a record that would stand for a generation. A 2008 Eisner Award Nominee: Best Comics-Related Book; a 2008 Harvey Award Nominee: Best Biographical, Historical or Journalistic Presentation.

Book Milton Caniff

    Book Details:
  • Author : Milton Arthur Caniff
  • Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
  • Release : 2002
  • ISBN : 9781578064380
  • Pages : 316 pages

Download or read book Milton Caniff written by Milton Arthur Caniff and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 2002 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Collected interviews with the master cartoonist who created Terry and the Pirates and Steve Canyon

Book Milton Caniff s Male Call

Download or read book Milton Caniff s Male Call written by Milton Caniff and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Miss Lace is back and she's with Hermes Press! Milton Caniff's famous good girl, created just for servicemen during WW II, known to G.I. Joes everywhere as "Lace," is available to all her fans in a deluxe hardcover art book reprinting the entire run of the strip. Move over Rita Hayworth -- sultry, sassy Miss Lace and her daily adventures are given the royal treatment with a host of extras including a detailed intro by noted Caniff historian R.C. Harvey, complete with unused art, documentary materials, advertising art, and more.

Book Steve Canyon Volume 1  1947 1948

Download or read book Steve Canyon Volume 1 1947 1948 written by Milton Caniff and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2012-01-31 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Steve Canyon like you've never seen it before — reproduced directly from Milton Caniff's personal set of syndicate proofs! For the first time: the definitive edition of the Steve Canyon newspaper strip by Milton Caniff featuring every Sunday in color and the daily strips in their original, uncropped versions. Caniff quit Terry and the Pirates in 1946 to begin Steve Canyon and it became his biggest-selling work. Forever known as the "Rembrandt of the Comic Strip," Caniff is at the absolute peak of his artistic prowess in these strips. Your passport is stamped for Adventure, Intrigue, and Danger on your expedition to exotic locales with your pilot, the one and only Steve Canyon! The horizons are unlimited after World War II when Steve Canyon assembles a flight crew of veterans for his new air-transport business. Action flies high as Canyon and his men befriend Happy Easter, cross swords with the hirsute Herr Splitz, and match wits with Chief Izm. The Caniff women are also on display, as Canyon meets the steely yet sexy “Copper” Calhoon; the beautiful schemer, Delta; that modern-day Mata Hari, Madame Lynx; Dr. Deen Wilderness, who is as capable as she is lovely; plus Captain Shark, Convoy, and the footloose Fancy. The Library of American Comics launches this highly-awaited reprinting by collecting every daily and full-color Sunday from 1947 to 1948 in a single hardcover volume. There’s excitement, humor, lovely women, and wonderful art in the exciting Caniff style!

Book Steve Canyon 1953

    Book Details:
  • Author : Milton Caniff
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2006-11-29
  • ISBN : 9781933160573
  • Pages : 0 pages

Download or read book Steve Canyon 1953 written by Milton Caniff and published by . This book was released on 2006-11-29 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Features the stories which ran through the seventh year of the adventure strip: Indian Cafe, The Princess and the Doctor and The Halls.

Book Milton Caniff s Steve Canyon  1947

Download or read book Milton Caniff s Steve Canyon 1947 written by Milton Arthur Caniff and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The entire first year of the great Milton Caniff's landmark action and adventure comic strip featuring All-American flyboy Steve Canyon and a menagerie of faithful comrades and diabolical rogues. Four complete stories which began Canyon's forty-year run in the pages of newspapers throughout the world. With b/w illustrations throughout.

Book Terry and the Pirates

    Book Details:
  • Author : Milton Arthur Caniff
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1990
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : pages

Download or read book Terry and the Pirates written by Milton Arthur Caniff and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book April Kane and the Dragon Lady

Download or read book April Kane and the Dragon Lady written by Milton Caniff and published by . This book was released on 2007-10 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on the popular comic strip "Terry and the Pirates," here is Milton Caniff's 1942 novel, "April Kane and the Dragon Lady."

Book Steve Canyon Volume 6  1957 1958

    Book Details:
  • Author : Milton Caniff
  • Publisher : Library of American Comics
  • Release : 2015-12
  • ISBN : 9781631404696
  • Pages : 0 pages

Download or read book Steve Canyon Volume 6 1957 1958 written by Milton Caniff and published by Library of American Comics. This book was released on 2015-12 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Things take a decidedly domestic turn in our sixth volume. Can Summer and Steve rekindle their love amidst the action of... high school basketball? Can Poteet find happiness on the polo field? Since this is Steve Canyon, not all the action takes place at home, and old friends unexpectedly pop up in new places. Miss Mizzou feels overdressed on Finger Island--Colonel Sam Index reappears at Higgs Air Base--Princess Snowflower comes to America as a pawn in Doagie Hogan's plan to attack Communist China--and Savannah Gay teams up with none other than Bob Hope in a special Christmas story. Everyone's favorite Light Colonel dodges death and femme fatales alike in volume six of The Complete Steve Canyon!

Book Milton Caniff  Rembrandt of the Comic Strip

Download or read book Milton Caniff Rembrandt of the Comic Strip written by John Paul Adams and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Great Cartoonists and Their Art

Download or read book Great Cartoonists and Their Art written by Art Wood and published by Pelican Publishing. This book was released on 1987 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Funnybooks

    Book Details:
  • Author : Michael Barrier
  • Publisher : Univ of California Press
  • Release : 2015
  • ISBN : 0520283902
  • Pages : 432 pages

Download or read book Funnybooks written by Michael Barrier and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2015 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Funnybooks is the story of the most popular American comic books of the 1940s and 1950s, those published under the Dell label. For a time, “Dell Comics Are Good Comics” was more than a slogan—it was a simple statement of fact. Many of the stories written and drawn by people like Carl Barks (Donald Duck, Uncle Scrooge), John Stanley (Little Lulu), and Walt Kelly (Pogo) repay reading and rereading by educated adults even today, decades after they were published as disposable entertainment for children. Such triumphs were improbable, to say the least, because midcentury comics were so widely dismissed as trash by angry parents, indignant librarians, and even many of the people who published them. It was all but miraculous that a few great cartoonists were able to look past that nearly universal scorn and grasp the artistic potential of their medium. With clarity and enthusiasm, Barrier explains what made the best stories in the Dell comic books so special. He deftly turns a complex and detailed history into an expressive narrative sure to appeal to an audience beyond scholars and historians.

Book All Hands

    Book Details:
  • Author :
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1946
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 1020 pages

Download or read book All Hands written by and published by . This book was released on 1946 with total page 1020 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Alien Legion

Download or read book Alien Legion written by Carl Potts and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The third in a series of collections of the critically acclaimed comicbook series, which ran from 1987 to 1991. Featuring a fascinating concept - a galaxy-hopping mercenary force a la the French Legion - developed by Carl Potts, and scripted and drawn by the dymanite creative team of Alan Zelenetz, Frank Cirocco with Terry Austin and Whilce Portacio.

Book  810 HCA New York Comic and Comic Art

Download or read book 810 HCA New York Comic and Comic Art written by Ivy Press and published by Heritage Capital Corporation. This book was released on 2004 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Comics through Time  4 volumes

Download or read book Comics through Time 4 volumes written by M. Keith Booker and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2014-10-28 with total page 2104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Focusing especially on American comic books and graphic novels from the 1930s to the present, this massive four-volume work provides a colorful yet authoritative source on the entire history of the comics medium. Comics and graphic novels have recently become big business, serving as the inspiration for blockbuster Hollywood movies such as the Iron Man series of films and the hit television drama The Walking Dead. But comics have been popular throughout the 20th century despite the significant effects of the restrictions of the Comics Code in place from the 1950s through 1970s, which prohibited the depiction of zombies and use of the word "horror," among many other rules. Comics through Time: A History of Icons, Idols, and Ideas provides students and general readers a one-stop resource for researching topics, genres, works, and artists of comic books, comic strips, and graphic novels. The comprehensive and broad coverage of this set is organized chronologically by volume. Volume 1 covers 1960 and earlier; Volume 2 covers 1960–1980; Volume 3 covers 1980–1995; and Volume 4 covers 1995 to the present. The chronological divisions give readers a sense of the evolution of comics within the larger contexts of American culture and history. The alphabetically arranged entries in each volume address topics such as comics publishing, characters, imprints, genres, themes, titles, artists, writers, and more. While special attention is paid to American comics, the entries also include coverage of British, Japanese, and European comics that have influenced illustrated storytelling of the United States or are of special interest to American readers.

Book LIFE

    Book Details:
  • Author :
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1943-03-01
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 96 pages

Download or read book LIFE written by and published by . This book was released on 1943-03-01 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: LIFE Magazine is the treasured photographic magazine that chronicled the 20th Century. It now lives on at LIFE.com, the largest, most amazing collection of professional photography on the internet. Users can browse, search and view photos of today’s people and events. They have free access to share, print and post images for personal use.