Writer and Vanity Fair editor-at-large Cullen Murphy grew up in Fairfax County, Connecticut, when seemingly everyone’s father in the region was paying the bills by working on newspaper comic strips.
Tag: comics history
Will Eisner’s graphic novel and City of Clowns
In a popular excerpt of a new book called Will Eisner: Champion of the Graphic Novel (Abrams ComicArts) from former DC Comics president and writer Paul Levitz, a lengthy discussion of the roots of graphic novels yields mentions of various watershed works and “titles that helped define the form,” including the woodcut novels of Lynd Ward and Frans Masereel.
Inside Joe Simon and Jack Kirby’s Studio
Curated and edited by writer and comics historian Mark Evanier, The Art of the Simon and Kirby Studio is a massive coffee table comics treasury, a volume that celebrates lavishly the process of comics production, and over more than 350 pages spans lesser-known (and sometimes unpublished) work of industry pioneers Joe Simon and Jack Kirby as well as their studio personnel.
‘Comics: A Global History, 1968 to the Present’
I’ve been working my way through a voluminous new cross-section of the comics publishing landscape called Comics: A Global History, 1968 to the Present (Thames & Hudson, 2014).
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