Masterful marks
Subtitle: cartoonists who changed the world
By: [edited by] Monte Beauchamp
Edition: First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Number of pages: 127
ISBN-13: 9781451649192
Subjects: Cartoonists; Biography; Comic books, strips
Description: "In a first-of-its-kind collection, award-winning illustrators celebrate the lives of the visionary artists who created the world of comic art and altered pop culture forever. No one has told the story of comic art in its own medium, until now. In Masterful Marks, top illustrators--including Drew Friedman, Nora Krug, Denis Kitchen, and Peter Kuper--reveal how sixteen visionary cartoonists overcame massive financial, political, and personal challenges to create a new form of art that now defines our world. Superhero comics didn't exist until two teenagers from Cleveland created the first superhero of all time: Superman. Advertising artist Theodor Geisel released his first book in 1937 as Dr. Seuss--and children's literature was never the same. Charles M. Schulz's perseverance and passion gave the world Peanuts, the world's most famous comic strip. Featuring these tales, and profiling such giants as Walt Disney, Robert Crumb, and the creators of MAD, Tintin, and manga, Masterful Marks illustrates how graphic storytelling became such a rich and popular medium. Masterful Marks is a stunning portrait of the comic art's aesthetic heritage and a powerful story of how creative vision can change the world"--Provided by publisher.
Table of contents: title: Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster (Creators of Superman) / Monte Beuchamp; title: Jack Kirby (Cocreator of Captain America) / Mark Alan Stamaty; title: Chas Addams (Creator of the Addams Family) / Marc Rosenthal; title: Winsor McCay (Animation and comic strip pioneer) / Nicolas Debon; title: Charles M. Schulz (Creator of Peanuts) / Sergio Ruzzier; title: Hergé (Creator of Tintin) / Nora Krug; title: Harvey Kurtzman (Creator of Mad) / Peter Kuper; title: Robert Crumb (Underground comix pioneer) / Drew Friedman; title: Al Hirschfeld (Celebrated caricaturist) / Arnold Roth; title: Walt Disney (Creator of Mickey Mouse) / Larry Day and Monte Beauchamp; title: Lynd Kendell Ward (Father of the graphic novel) / Owen Smith and Monte Beauchamp; title: Rodolphe Töpffer (Creator of the first comic strips) / Frank Stack; title: Edward Gorey (Macabre children's book pioneer) / Greg Clarke; title: Hugh Hefner (Founder of Playboy) / Gary Dumm and Monte Beauchamp; title: Osamu Tezuka (Father of manga and anime) / Dan Zettwoch; title: Dr. Seuss (Celebrated creator of chilren's picture books) / Denis Kitchen.