For over twenty-five years, Disney artist Carl Barks (1901-2000) created some of the most brilliant and funny stories in comic books. Gifted and prolific, he was the author of over five hundred tales in the most popular comic books of all time. Although he was never allowed to sign his name and worked in anonymity, Barks's unique artistic style and storytelling were immediately evident to all his readers. Barks created the town of Duckburg and a cast of characters that included Donald Duck's fabulously wealthy Uncle Scrooge, the lucky loafer Gladstone Gander, the daffy inventor Gyro Gearloose, the roguish crooks the Beagle Boys, and the Italian sorceress Magica de Spell. 
Carl Barks and the Disney Comic Book: Unmasking the Myth of Modernity is the first critical study of Barks's work in English. From a cultural studies perspective, the author analyzes all phases of Barks's career from his work in animation to his postretirement years writing the Junior Woodchucks stories. 
Andrae argues that Barks's oeuvre presents a vision strikingly different from the Disney ethos. Barks's central theme is a critique of modernity. His tales offer a mordant satire of Western imperialism and America's obsession with wealth, success, consumerism, and technological mastery, offering one of the few communal, ecological visions in popular culture. Although a talented visual artist, Barks was also one of America's greatest storytellers and, Andrae contends, lifted the comic book form to the level of great literature.

Carl Barks and the Disney Comic Book: Unmasking the Myth of Modernity (Great Comics Artists Series)

Comics & Graphic Novels

Andrae, Thomas

How To Create Comics & Manga

UNIVERSITY PRESS OF MISSISSIPPI

Arts & Photography

Graphic Design

Reprints the first 16 complete Peter Wheat comic books; in-depth essay by comics historian and Walt Kelly expert Dr. Thomas Andrae; afterword by Trina Robbins. Special "by order only" Diamond edition, hardcover with endpapers, printed laminated cover and dustjacket, to fit into your library with Hermes Press' Walt Kelly's Pogo The Complete Dell Comics Collection. Walt Kelly's Peter Wheat comics are renowned for their humor, artistic flair and appeal to both children and adults. The Peter Wheat comic books are extremely rare and have never been collected as a series before, due to their scarcity and rarity. Between 1948 and 1951, Kelly drew thirty-five issues of The Adventures of Peter Wheat, a sixteen page comic book given away to bakeries to promote Peter Wheat bread. The stories were fairy tales starring Peter Wheat, an elf-sized boy who lived in a hollow tree on the edge of a wheat field where he and the Little Folk battle Dragonel, Queen of the Hornets. While created with kids in mind the mythology spun in these stories is timeless. "Coupled with Kelly's incredible artwork, this series of stories, which run in arcs, are indispensable in Walt Kelly's canon of work," commented Dr. Thomas Andrae, editor of this series.

Walt Kelly's Peter Wheat the Complete Series: Volume One (Walt Kelly's Peter Wheat: Complete, 1)

Kelly, Walt

Graphic Novels

Hermes Press

Pop-culture historian Thomas Andrae, author of Creators of the Superheroes and co-author with Batman creator Bob Kane on Batman and Me, guides readers through the history of humor comic books, with rare definitive interviews, commentary, and in-depth dialogues with Carl Barks, Walt Kelly, Harvey Kurtzman, Floyd Gottfredson, John Stanley and Marge Buell.

Creators Of Humor In Comic Books

<ul><li>From Batman and Superman, to The Amazing Spider-Man ― the definitive book about the creators of the greatest superheroes! Learn the true story of the "gay" Superman; of how DC fought to de-"sex" Lois Lane, and the real truth about who really created the Joker and Robin. Read the only interview, never before published, of Bill Finger telling the unvarnished truth about the creation of Batman, while noted pop-culture historian Thomas Andrae, a world-renowned expert on Batman and Superman, provides commentary and offers definitive interviews with Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster, creators of Superman; with Bob Kane and Bill Finger, co-creators of Batman; and Jerry Robinson, creator of Robin, the Boy Wonder, and the Joker. Also presented are interviews with and commentary about Jack Kirby covering the King's entire career including a detailed review of the creation of the Amazing Spider-Man, Captain America, and the Marvel Universe, plus an extensive interview with Will Eisner complete with a reprint of the rarely seen Wonderman story and an exhaustive discussion about The Spirit.</li></ul>

Creators Of The Superheroes

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Carl Barks and the Disney Comic Book: Unmasking the Myth of Modernity (Great Comics Artists Series)

Carl Barks and the Disney Comic Book: Unmasking the Myth of Modernity (Great Comics Artists Series)

Walt Kelly's Peter Wheat the Complete Series: Volume One (Walt Kelly's Peter Wheat: Complete, 1)

Creators Of Humor In Comic Books

Creators Of The Superheroes