Книга: Books About Comics: Bat-Manga!: the Secret History of Batman in Japan, Seduction of the Innocent, Our Gods Wear Spandex

Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Bat-Manga!: the Secret History of Batman in Japan, Seduction of the Innocent, Our Gods Wear Spandex, Comics and Sequential Art, Understanding Comics, Alan Moore: Portrait of an Extraordinary Gentleman, Modern Cartoonist, the Lexicon of Comicana, Panel Discussions, the Extraordinary Works of Alan Moore, the Imp, Thrill-Power Overload, Writers on Comic Scriptwriting, Hong Kong Comics: a History of Manhua, Reinventing Comics, Kirby: King of Comics, Graphic Storytelling and Visual Narrative, Tintin and the World of Herge, the Gospel According to Peanuts, Alan Moore's Writing for Comics, the Sandman Companion, Batman and Me, the Cute Manifesto, Superhero: the Secret Origin of a Genre. Excerpt: Alan Moore's Writing for Comics is a book published in 2003 by Avatar Press . It reprints a 1985 essay by Alan Moore on how to write comics successfully that originally appeared in the British magazine Fantasy Advertiser (four chapters from issue #92, August 1985, to issue #95, February 1986).The book version includes an additional essay by Moore and illustrations by Jacen Burrows .References (URLs online) Websites (URLs online) A hyperlinked version of this chapter is at Alan Moore: Portrait of an Extraordinary Gentleman is a tribute to comics creator Alan Moore edited by Gary Spencer Millidge and Smoky Man and published by Abiogenesis Press in May 2003. Published to raise awareness and funds for charity, its first printing swiftly sold out, with a second, 'corrected' published in November 2003.It was co-published with Black Velvet Editrice of Italy and raised over $36,000 for Alzheimer's charities.As of January, 2007, Abiogenesis Press declared the second printing sold out also, with no plans for a further English printing. Contents It contains acknowledgments, academic essays, cartoons and ...