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Preview: Comic Book History of Comics: Comics For All

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Comic Book History of Comics: Comics For All

Fred Van Lente (w) • Ryan Dunlavey (a)

At last! The amazing, inspiring story of the comics medium in comics form goes global! In this volume, Fred and Ryan tackle the origins of Japanese manga, French graphic albums, the British Invasion of the American scene, the battle for creators’ rights in the US, and how comics have invaded cyberspace and Hollywood! Plus: the Her-Story of Comics continues, and we spotlight other countries’ funnybooks across five continents! The Comic Book History of Comics goes wherever comics go—which is everywhere!

TPB • FC • $15.99 • 104 pages • ISBN: 978-1-68405-255-4

Preview: Comic Book History of Comics: Comics For All #4

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Comic Book History of Comics: Comics For All #4

Fred Van Lente (w) • Ryan Dunlavey (a & c)

COMICS FOR ALL! Fred and Ryan conclude their tour of the history of our favorite medium by looking at the birth of the direct retailing market and how it influenced comics’ creation. They also look at the past and future of distributing comics, including web comics and beyond!

FC • 32 pages • $3.99

Preview: Comic Book History of Comics: Comics For All #3

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Comic Book History of Comics: Comics For All #3

Fred Van Lente (w) • Ryan Dunlavey (a & c)

MANGA STRIKES BACK! Out of the ashes of World War II, Japan rises to achieve total world dominance of comics and anime! How did this happen? The simple answer is that Japan had OSAMU TEZUKA—“The God of Manga”—and all other nations didn’t! His story is in this issue! Plus: The Her-Story of Comics continues! And the insane legal story of the Air Pirates’ struggle against Disney!

FC • 32 pages • $3.99

Preview: Comic Book History of Comics: Comics For All #2

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Comic Book History of Comics: Comics For All #2

Fred Van Lente (w) • Ryan Dunlavey (a & c)

The FULL-COLOR history of funny books moves into the 1980s! In comics that doesn’t mean feathered hair and bad sweaters, but the fight for CREATORS’ RIGHTS, highlighted by Jack “King” Kirby’s attempt to liberate his artwork and THE BRITISH INVASION spearheaded by Moore, Gibbons, Gaiman and Morrison! All this and a brand-new HER-story of Comics (and World History of Comics variant cover) too!

FC • 32 pages • $3.99

Around the Tubes

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The weekend is almost here and some of the GP is enjoying a long one. We’ll still have lots of news and reviews to come all weekend and into the new year! We’re not slowing down!!!

While you wait for the weekend to begin, here’s some comic news and reviews from around the web.

Afropunk – Geek Consumerism: How Nerds Are Pressured to Constantly Spend Money – A really good read.

Journalism.co.uk – How ABC News is experimenting with comic book style storytelling – Rather interesting.

Newsarama – David Brothers Leaves Image Comics – Well that’s unexpected.

Newsarama – Marvel’s Ben Morse Leaving After 10 Years – So, a job opening?

 

Reviews

Comicosity – Batman #37

Adventures in Poor Taste – Comic Book History of Comics: Comics for All #1

Nothing But Comics – Dark Fang #2

Nothing But Comics – Evolution #2

ICv2 – The Forever War

Bam! Smack! Pow! – She-Hulk #160

Talking Comics – Tales of Suspense #100

Preview: Comic Book History of Comics: Comics For All #1

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Comic Book History of Comics: Comics For All #1

Fred Van Lente (w) • Ryan Dunlavey (a & c)

The bestselling, mind-blowing graphic history of our favorite medium continues—with the long birth of the Graphic Novel, spanning from1835 Switzerland to the USA today! How French and Belgian comics broke away from the American tradition—and inspired Heavy Metal and a sci-fi comics revolution! Starring: Will Eisner! Moebius! Gil Kane! Herge! Rodolfe Töpffer! All this and a brand-new HER-story of Comics story (and World History of Comics variant cover) too!

FC • 32 pages • $3.99