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How to Read Nancy
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 276

How to Read Nancy

  • Categories: Art

Everything that you need to know about reading, making, and understanding comics can be found in a single Nancy strip by Ernie Bushmiller from August 8, 1959. Paul Karasik and Mark Newgarden’s groundbreaking work How to Read Nancy ingeniously isolates the separate building blocks of the language of comics through the deconstruction of a single strip. No other book on comics has taken such a simple yet methodical approach to laying bare how the comics medium really works. No other book of any kind has taken a single work by any artist and minutely (and entertainingly) pulled it apart like this. How to Read Nancy is a completely new approach towards deep-reading art. In addition, How to Read Nancy is a thoroughly researched history of how comics are made, from their creation at the drawing board to their ultimate destination at the bookstore. Textbook, art book, monogram, dissection, How to Read Nancy is a game changer in understanding how the “simplest” drawings grab us and never leave. Perfect for students, academics, scholars, and casual fans.

The Ride Together
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 224

The Ride Together

We looked like a cup of human fruit cocktail dumped onto the top of the house, each piece different but all out of the same can. So begins a book unlike any other, half comics and half text, about a family that lives with autism -- and the strange life that is ordinary to them. The oldest son, David, recites Superman episodes as he walks around the living room. A late-night family poker game spirals into a fog-driven duel. A thug from an old black-and-white rerun crawls out of the television. A housekeeper transforms into an avenging angel. A broken plate signals a terrible change in the family that none of them can prevent...until it's too late. This groundbreaking work was excerpted in The New York Times for its ability to honestly, eloquently, and respectfully set forth what life is like with autism in the family. What sets The Ride Together apart is its combination of imagination and realism -- its vision of a family's inner world -- with David at the center.

City of Glass
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 137

City of Glass

When reclusive crime writer Daniel Quinn receives a mysterious call seeking a private detective in the middle of the night, he quickly and unwittingly becomes the protagonist in a thriller of his own. As the familiar territory of the noir detective genre gives way to something altogether more disturbing, Quinn becomes consumed by his mission, and begins to lose his grip on reality.

Getting High on Leadership
  • Language: en

Getting High on Leadership

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2023-09-23
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  • Publisher: Unknown

Getting High on Leadership is an invitation to explore the dynamics of your inner world and how it expresses itself in your external reality as a leader. As your consciousness expands your everyday behavior and mindset are transformed resulting in a deeper sense of purpose, commitment, and satisfaction, for both you and the members of your team. Elevated consciousness within a group or organization results in more creativity, innovation, harmony, collaboration, cooperation, and ultimately an exponential increase in effectiveness and productivity. There will be no enduring solutions to our endless social, economic, and political problems until we address the consciousness that creates them. We are at a turning point in history. A radical systemic change in consciousness is desperately needed. Conscious leadership is not simply a viable option, it is the only option. This book provides the roadmap. Getting High on Leadership will enlighten you, challenge you, remind you, and empower you to become the leader you were born to be!

City of Glass
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 148

City of Glass

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2010-04-01
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  • Publisher: Macmillan

A graphic novel classic with a new introduction by Art Spiegelman Quinn writes mysteries. The Washington Post has described him as a “post-existentialist private eye.” An unknown voice on the telephone is now begging for his help, drawing him into a world and a mystery far stranger than any he ever created in print. Adapted by Paul Karasik and David Mazzucchelli, with graphics by David Mazzucchelli, Paul Auster’s groundbreaking, Edgar Award-nominated masterwork has been astonishingly transformed into a new visual language.

The House
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 134

The House

In Paco Roca’s intensely intimate and international award-winning graphic novel, The House, three adult siblings return to their family’s quaint vacation home a year after their father’s death. They each bring their respective wives, husbands, and children there with the intention to clean up the residence and put it on the market, but as garbage is hauled off and dust is wiped away, decades-old resentments quickly fill the vacant home. Through flashbacks into each sibling’s memories — the fig trees they grew up climbing, the pergola they never got around to build, the final visits to the hospital — Roca gives us a glimpse into domestic moments of joy, guilt, and disappointment while asking what happens to brothers and sisters when the only person holding the family together is now gone. Much like the film The Big Chill, The House is both painful and touching, brilliantly rendered on panoramic pages by Roca, who is known for his empathetic books like the 2017 Eisner Award-nominated Wrinkles. At once deeply personal (dedicated to Roca’s own deceased father) and entirely universal, The House details the struggle to overcome the past, but still hold onto the memories.

Masters of American Comics
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 341

Masters of American Comics

  • Categories: Art

Presents the work of America's most popular and influential comic artists, and includes critical essays accompanying each artist's drawings.

City of Glass
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 144

City of Glass

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2004-08-01
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  • Publisher: Picador

A graphic novel classic with a new introduction by Art Spiegelman Quinn writes mysteries. The Washington Post has described him as a "post-existentialist private eye." An unknown voice on the telephone is now begging for his help, drawing him into a world and a mystery far stranger than any he ever created in print. Adapted by Paul Karasik and David Mazzucchelli, with graphics by David Mazzucchelli, Paul Auster's groundbreaking, Edgar Award-nominated masterwork has been astonishingly transformed into a new visual language. "[This graphic novel] is, surprisingly, not just a worthy supplement to the novel, but a work of art that fully justifies its existence on its own terms."--The Guardian

Graphic adaptation of Paul Auster’s
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 20

Graphic adaptation of Paul Auster’s "City of Glass" – Visual language and symbolism

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2011-06-10
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  • Publisher: GRIN Verlag

Seminar paper from the year 2009 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Literature, grade: 1,3, University of Münster (Englisches Seminar), course: Graphic Novels, language: English, abstract: It was a wrong number that started it, the telephone ringing three times in the dead of night, and the voice on the other end asking for someone he was not. (Auster, 1985; 3) Paul Auster’s anti-detective novel City of Glass is the story of a man, whose life accidentally angles off. More and more, he blunders into the complexity of a criminal case in search of the significant principle. Obsessively, he adapts his action to the stranger until he finally loses hisself. Although Auster...

Graphic Adaptation of Paul Auster's City of Glass - Visual Language and Symbolism
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 37

Graphic Adaptation of Paul Auster's City of Glass - Visual Language and Symbolism

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2011-06
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  • Publisher: GRIN Verlag

Seminar paper from the year 2009 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Literature, grade: 1,3, University of Münster (Englisches Seminar), course: Graphic Novels, language: English, abstract: It was a wrong number that started it, the telephone ringing three times in the dead of night, and the voice on the other end asking for someone he was not. (Auster, 1985; 3) Paul Auster's anti-detective novel City of Glass is the story of a man, whose life accidentally angles off. More and more, he blunders into the complexity of a criminal case in search of the significant principle. Obsessively, he adapts his action to the stranger until he finally loses hisself. Although Auster's...