In continuing the theme of the last few Thursday Thirteen this week will be books about comic books. Not books featuring reprints or even original comic work, but books that tell the history of comic books, or a creator, or any other historical or informational book about comic books.
1. The Pirates and the Mouse by Bob Levine
2. Stan Lee and the Rise and Fall of the American Comic Book by Jordan Raphael and Tom Spugeon
3. Tales to Astonish: Jack Kirby, Stan Lee, and the American Comic Book Revolution by Ronin Ro
4. Comic Book Nation: The Transformation of Youth Culture in America by Bradford W. Wright
5. Men of Tomorrow: Crime, Gangsters and the Birth of the Comic Book by Gerard Jones
6. Understanding Comics by Scott McCloud
7. The Great Comic Book Heroes by Jules Fieffer
8. Comic Wars by Dan Raviv
9. The Education of A Comics Artist by Michael Dooley and Steven Heller
10. Comics and Sequential Art by Will Eisner
11. Superheroes In My Pants by Mark Evanier
12. Will Eisner: A Spirited Life by Bob Andleman
13. Writers on Comics Scriptwriting edited by Mark Salisbury
2 comments:
Are these all books in your library? I recognize a couple of the titles, although I haven't read them.
We have a few at my company that we use for inspiration.
Yea, I have a few more that didn't make the list. I'm always picking up books that I find on the history of comic books or about the people that created it. There's not a lot written out there about it, but that's changing, more is being written.
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