Masterpiece Comics

Masterpiece Comics
Author: R. Sikoryak
Publisher: Drawn and Quarterly
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2009-09-01
Genre: Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN: 9781897299845

HILARIOUS PARODIES OF CLASSIC LITERATURE REIMAGINED WITH CLASSIC COMICS Masterpiece Comics adapts a variety of classic literary works with the most iconic visual idioms of twentieth-century comics. Dense with exclamation marks and lurid colors, R. Sikoryak's parodies remind us of the sensational excesses of the canon, or, if you prefer, of the economical expressiveness of classic comics from Batman to Garfield. In "Blond Eve," Dagwood and Blondie are ejected from the Garden of Eden into their archetypal suburban home; Oscar Wilde's Dorian Gray is reimagined as a foppish Little Nemo; and Camus's Stranger becomes a brooding, chain-smoking Golden Age Superman. Other source material includes Dante, Shakespeare, Dostoyevsky, bubblegum wrappers, superhero comics, kid cartoons, and more. Sikoryak's classics have appeared in landmark anthologies such as RAW and Drawn & Quarterly, all of which are collected in Masterpiece Comics, along with brilliant new graphic literary satires. His drawings have appeared on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, as well as in The New Yorker, The Onion, Mad, and Nickelodeon Magazine.

Asterios Polyp

Asterios Polyp
Author: David Mazzucchelli
Publisher: Pantheon
Total Pages: 346
Release: 2009-07-07
Genre: Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN: 0307377326

The triumphant return of one of comics’ greatest talents, with an engrossing story of one man’s search for love, meaning, sanity, and perfect architectural proportions. An epic story long awaited, and well worth the wait. Meet Asterios Polyp: middle-aged, meagerly successful architect and teacher, aesthete and womanizer, whose life is wholly upended when his New York City apartment goes up in flames. In a tenacious daze, he leaves the city and relocates to a small town in the American heartland. But what is this “escape” really about? As the story unfolds, moving between the present and the past, we begin to understand this confounding yet fascinating character, and how he’s gotten to where he is. And isn’t. And we meet Hana: a sweet, smart, first-generation Japanese American artist with whom he had made a blissful life. But now she’s gone. Did Asterios do something to drive her away? What has happened to her? Is she even alive? All the questions will be answered, eventually. In the meantime, we are enthralled by Mazzucchelli’s extraordinarily imagined world of brilliantly conceived eccentrics, sharply observed social mores, and deftly depicted asides on everything from design theory to the nature of human perception. Asterios Polyp is David Mazzucchelli’s masterpiece: a great American graphic novel.

Unquotable Trump

Unquotable Trump
Author: R Sikoryak
Publisher: Drawn & Quarterly
Total Pages: 52
Release: 2021-04-29
Genre: Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN: 177046350X

The master of the comic book mash-up finds the POTUS to be his ultimate super-villain 25% of net proceeds donated to the American Civil Liberties Union R. Sikoryak is famous for taking classic comics and mashing them with famous literature as he did in Masterpiece Comics or even using comics to visualize the iTunes Terms and Conditions contract. Now in these uncertain times, cartoonist R. Sikoryak draws upon the power of comics and satire to frame President Trump and his controversial declarations as the words and actions of the most notable villains and antagonists in comic book history. Reimagining the most famous comic covers, Sikoryak transforms Wonder Woman into Nasty Woman; Tubby Tompkins into Trump; Black Panther into the Black Voter; the Fantastic Four into the Hombres Fantasticos and Trump into Magneto fighting the Ex-Men. In perfect Trumpian fashion, The Unquotable Trump will be a 48-page treasury annual—needlessly oversized and garishly colored; a throw-back to the past when both Comics and America were Great. This will be the hugest comic, truly a great comic. You won’t want to miss this, trust me, you’ll see!

B. Krigstein Comics

B. Krigstein Comics
Author: Bernard Krigstein
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2004
Genre: Artists
ISBN: 9781560975731

A full-colour collection of thirty six complete stories, this volume represents the very best work throughout the career of the most innovative comic book artist of his generation. Companion volume to the art retrospective published last year.

Constitution Illustrated

Constitution Illustrated
Author: R. Sikoryak
Publisher: Drawn & Quarterly
Total Pages: 132
Release: 2021-04-09
Genre: Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN: 1770465103

The master of the visual mash-up returns with his signature idiosyncratic take on the constitution R. Sikoryak is the master of the pop culture pastiche. In Masterpiece Comics, he interpreted classic literature with defining twentieth-century comics. With Terms and Conditions, he made the unreadable contract that everyone signs, and no one reads, readable. He employs his magic yet again to investigate the very framework of the country with Constitution Illustrated. By visually interpreting the complete text of the supreme law of the land with more than a century of American pop culture icons, Sikoryak distills the very essence of the government legalese from the abstract to the tangible, the historical to the contemporary. Among Sikoryak’s spot-on unions of government articles and amendments with famous comic-book characters: the Eighteenth Amendment that instituted prohibition is articulated with Homer Simpson running from Chief Wiggum; the Fourteenth Amendment that solidifies citizenship to all people born and naturalized in the United States is personified by Ms. Marvel; and, of course, the Nineteenth Amendment offering women the right to vote is a glorious depiction of Wonder Woman breaking free from her chains. American artists from George Herriman (Krazy Kat) and Charles Schulz (Peanuts) to Raina Telgemeier (Sisters) and Alison Bechdel (Dykes to Watch Out For) are homaged, with their characters reimagined in historical costumes and situations. We the People has never been more apt.

Joe Jusko's Marvel Masterpieces

Joe Jusko's Marvel Masterpieces
Author: Joe Jusko
Publisher: IDW Publishing
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2018-07
Genre: Cartoon characters
ISBN: 9781684053186

The complete Marvel Masterpieces painted trading-card art from the rare 2016 Upper Deck set is collected for the first time, featuring Marvel's most famous heroes and villains, beautifully illustrated by the incomparable Joe Jusko! Joe Jusko's paintings for the 1992 Marvel Masterpieces trading card collection are credited with launching the '90s trading card boom. In 2016, Upper Deck returned the Masterpieces series to its roots with an all-new set of Jusko cards. The full set of paintings is collected here, all 132 from the set, including the hard-to-find premium cards. Each piece of art is presented at actual size and has been scanned by the artist to ensure the highest quality reproduction. Each card is accompanied by its preliminary sketch, as well as commentary from the artist himself. Art fans not only get the full magnitude of Joe's talent, in great detail, but insight into his thought process behind each piece. A must-have not only for Marvel fans, but for fans of fantastic art as well. And as an incredible bonus, Joe has painted 10 brand-new pieces exclusively for this book!

Studying Comics and Graphic Novels

Studying Comics and Graphic Novels
Author: Karin Kukkonen
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 192
Release: 2013-09-10
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1118499921

This introduction to studying comics and graphic novels is a structured guide to a popular topic. It deploys new cognitive methods of textual analysis and features activities and exercises throughout. Deploys novel cognitive approaches to analyze the importance of psychological and physical aspects of reader experience Carefully structured to build a sequenced, rounded introduction to the subject Includes study activities, writing exercises, and essay topics throughout Dedicated chapters cover popular sub-genres such as autobiography and literary adaptation

Rain Like Hammers

Rain Like Hammers
Author: Brandon Graham
Publisher:
Total Pages: 256
Release: 2021-08-03
Genre:
ISBN: 9781534313552

Eisner award-winning writer and artist BRANDON GRAHAM (KING CITY, PROPHET,MULTIPLE WARHEADS) presents a self-contained graphic novel of distant,far-future science fiction. To rescue El, a young woman who hasunknowingly entered a competition for immortality, supercriminal Brik Blokjourneys to the palace-world of Skycradle. He disguises himself bymind-transferring into the body of a genetically engineered butler and beginsmaking plans to steal an aristocrat's finger-keys Meanwhile, thewalking-cities on the desert-world of Crown Majesty are being picked off by anunseen force!

Master Race

Master Race
Author: Bernard Krigstein
Publisher: Fantagraphics Books
Total Pages: 242
Release: 2018-01-10
Genre: Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN: 1683960947

This comics anthology includes Krigstein’s most famous story ― which broke both aesthetic and narrative boundaries ―plus material that’s never been reprinted since the 1950s. In addition to "Master Race,” this volume includes “The Flying Machine” (based on a story by Ray Bradbury). Other stories include: “Slave Ship,” an unpublished science fiction tale that was only discovered in the decades following EC’s demise, “The Monster From The Fourth Dimension,” a horror/science fiction shocker that has never been reprinted since its original appearance in 1954, and other Krigstein crime, horror, war, and science fiction stories covering the full gamut of EC titles, including Tales From the Crypt, Crime SuspenStories, Shock SuspenStories, Aces High, and Incredible Science Fiction.