Foul Play!: The Art and Artists of the Notorious 1950s E.C. Comics!
Driven out of business by self-appointed moral guardians a half-century ago, EC comics have acquired near-legendary status. EC scripts may have been several notches better than those of the competitors, but EC's stellar roster of artists is what makes fans so esteem the EC line. It is fitting, then, that this coffee-table tribute focuses on those illustrators. Geissman, coauthor ofTales of Terror(2000), an exhaustive overview of EC, provides informative, insightful biographical sketches of 14 leading lights; full-color covers, story pages, and panels (including rare pre-EC work) by the subject and photos and other memorabilia illustrate, and a complete story concludes, each sketch. Geissman's coverage extends post-EC, when such artists as Wally Wood and Al Williamson maintained successful careers in comics, while others, such as Jack Davis and Johnny Craig, moved to commercial art; one EC mainstay, Graham Ingles, disappeared altogether. A colorful, in-depth survey that will grab EC's many devotees, comics fans who have enjoyed its subjects' subsequent work, and generalist pop-culture vultures alike.Gordon FlaggCopyright © American Library Association. All rights reserved