Download or read book Al Capp written by Michael Schumacher and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2013-02-26 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: More than thirty years have passed since Al Capp's death, and he may no longer be a household name. But at the height of his career, his groundbreaking comic strip, Li'l Abner, reached ninety million readers. The strip ran for forty-three years, spawned two movies and a Broadway musical, and originated such expressions as "hogwash" and "double-whammy." Capp himself was a familiar personality on TV and radio; as a satirist, he was frequently compared to Mark Twain. Though Li'l Abner brought millions joy, the man behind the strip was a complicated and often unpleasant person. A childhood accident cost him a leg-leading him to art as a means of distinguishing himself. His apprenticeship with Ham Fisher, creator of Joe Palooka, started a twenty-year feud that ended in Fisher's suicide. Capp enjoyed outsized publicity for a cartoonist, but his status abetted sexual misconduct and protected him from the severest repercussions. Late in life, his politics became extremely conservative; he counted Richard Nixon as a friend, and his gift for satire was redirected at targets like John Lennon, Joan Baez, and anti-war protesters on campuses across the country. With unprecedented access to Capp's archives and a wealth of new material, Michael Schumacher and Denis Kitchen have written a probing biography. Capp's story is one of incredible highs and lows, of popularity and villainy, of success and failure-told here with authority and heart.

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Download or read book Joe written by Larry Brown and published by Algonquin Books. This book was released on 2003-09-30 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Brilliant . . . Larry Brown has slapped his own fresh tattoo on the big right arm of Southern Lit.” —The Washington Post Book World Now a major motion picture starring Nicolas Cage, directed by David Gordon Green. Joe Ransom is a hard-drinking ex-con pushing fifty who just won’t slow down--not in his pickup, not with a gun, and certainly not with women. Gary Jones estimates his own age to be about fifteen. Born luckless, he is the son of a hopeless, homeless wandering family, and he’s desperate for a way out. When their paths cross, Joe offers him a chance just as his own chances have dwindled to almost nothing. Together they follow a twisting map to redemption--or ruin.

Download or read book Writing for Journalists written by and published by Routledge. This book was released on with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book It Gets Worse written by NICHOLAS. LEZARD and published by . This book was released on 2019-08-15 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It Gets Worse is the second instalment of Nicholas Lezard's rueful, dissolute life. Beginning where his first volume, Bitter Experience Has Taught Me, ended, Nick's fortunes have not improved. At home in the Hovel, his bachelor existence makes a further descent into chaos, yet the misadventures are faced with sardonic wit, pathos and something like dissident wisdom.

Download or read book A Life in the Bush written by Roy MacGregor and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2015-09-08 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of The CAA–Birks Family Foundation Award for Biography The 2000 Ottawa-Carlton Book Award The (U.S.) Rutstrum Award for Best Wilderness Book In 1929, at the age of twenty-two, Duncan MacGregor, the son of a lumberman, great-grandson of a voyageur, and an avid reader and baseball fan, headed off into the largest tract of preserved bush in the world: Ontario’s Algonquin Park. When he got there, he was home for the rest of his life. From the true nature of fishing to the harsh realities of raising a family in the woods, from the role of fear in the bush to the small nuances of family relationships, A Life in the Bush is painted on a canvas both vast and richly detailed. A story that captures the tough physical demands, the rich life of the senses, and the unselfconscious freedom that comes from living apart from town and city. In this beautifully crafted memoir of his father, Roy MacGregor paints an intimate portrait of an unusual man and spins a spellbinding tale of a boy’s complex relationship with his father. He also evokes, perhaps for the first time in Canadian literature, the bush the way bush people see it, an insider's view of life in the totemic Canadian wilderness.

Download or read book A Measured Life written by Richard Hoggart and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-03-06 with total page 637 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Richard Hoggart's book, The Uses of Literacy, established his reputation as a uniquely sensitive and observant chronicler of English working-class life. This pioneering work, first published in 1957, examines changes in the life and values of the English working class in response to mass media. It maps out a new methodology in cultural studies based around interdisciplinary and a concern with how textsin this case, mass publicationsare stitched into the patterns of lived experience. Mixing personal memoir with social history and cultural critique. The Uses of Literacy anticipates recent interest in modes of cultural analysts that refuse to hide the author behind the mask of objective social scientific technique. In its method and in its rich accumulation of the detail of working-class life, this volume remains useful and absorbing.

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Download or read book Drawn to Life Volume 2 written by Walt Stanchfield and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2012-11-12 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discover the lessons that helped bring about a new golden age of Disney animation! Published for the first time ever, Drawn to Life is a two volume collection of the legendary lectures from long-time Disney animator Walt Stanchfield. For over twenty years, Walt helped breathe life into the new golden age of animation with these teachings at the Walt Disney Animation Studios and influenced such talented artists as Tim Burton, Brad Bird, Glen Keane, and John Lasseter. These writings represent the quintessential refresher for fine artists and film professionals, and it is a vital tutorial for students who are now poised to be part of another new generation in the art form. Written by Walt Stanchfield (1919-2000), who began work for the Walt Disney Studios in the 1950s. His work can be seen in films like Sleeping Beauty, The Jungle Book, 101 Dalmatians, and Peter Pan. Edited by Academy Award®-nominated producer Don Hahn, who has produced such classic Disney films as Beauty and the Beast and The Lion King.

Download or read book The Gospel According to Andy Capp written by Daniel Patrick McGeachy and published by Westminster John Knox Press. This book was released on 1973 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Andy Capp, that happy-go-lucky, floppy-hatted, ne'er-do-well funny-paper character, is the unlikely hero of this book about the grace of God. Using cartoons from the internationally popular comic strip, D. P. McGeachy uncovers the hidden spiritual dimension in Andy's fighting, his football games, and his struggles to maintain a balance of love and impatience with his wife, Flo. Through Andy's attempts to keep his soul intact and to survive as a unique human being, we gain insight into our own human predicament.

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Download or read book Windmills in My Mind Hard Cover written by Arthur Coleman and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2011-10-03 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Take on the world and win?Risk it all on one spin?They did what?Hijacked an airplane4 months after 9/11/2001,but never got on the plane!Demanded a $20,000,000.00 ransom and hijacked the delivery Armored Car!Hijacked the international syndicates annual gold and jewelrydelivery from the plane!Hijacked the Atlantic City casino-rowcash collection Armored Car!Sailed away with the loot!Made the Oceans 9/11/12/etc. gang look like amateurs!Read how, now!

Download or read book Drawn to Life written by Walt Stanchfield and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2009 with total page 365 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume continues the legendary lessons from master Disney animator Walt Stanchfield, who animated such modern classics as "Beauty and the Beast" and "The Lion King." These transcripts of Stanchfield's lectures offer in-depth advice and instruction to artists on bringing characters to life.

Download or read book Life s a Joke written by Dr. J. T. Dock Houk and published by Dorrance Publishing. This book was released on 2015-12-17 with total page 488 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sometimes life hands you lemons. In this collection of jokes, autobiography, and personal philosophy, author and businessman Dr. J. T. Dock Houk makes an ocean of lemonade. Life’s a Joke compiles four books – “It’s All About Me,” “My Life with a Girl,” “Kids and Pets,” and “Life Around Us” – recounting 1,162 jokes, funny anecdotes, and descriptions of Sunday morning comics, clippings of which Dock has been collecting for an incredible amount of decades. As the author writes, “What I mean to convey by saying ‘life is a joke’ is that humor has helped me over some of the rough spots by showing me a side of life that either explains what I am feeling, or gives me a glimpse of something I also see. Humor, whose visual expression is often a joke, makes me smile or even laugh out loud. And sometimes, if you don’t laugh, you might cry.” So crack open Life’s a Joke and crack a smile. You might learn a little wisdom – but if not, at least you’ll get a laugh

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Download or read book Reg Smythe written by Helene de Klerk and published by Creators Publishing. This book was released on 101-01-01 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reg Smythe was the first British cartoonist to break into the American market. His world famous character, Andy Capp, was his "dancing bear." The character that attracted attention and left Reg free of the burden of recognition and fame. This story charts his impoverished childhood and formative relationships through to international recognition and his last years as a semi recluse in the North of England. The story gives an insight into the man behind the cartoon, linking childhood and adult experiences to the development of the strip’s main characters, describing how he worked and what fame meant to him – often in his own words.