New Smithsonian Book Of Comic Book Stories HC

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This definitive anthology celebrates the artistry and insight of comic-book art, graphic novels, and graphic journalism from the 1960s to the present. THE NEW SMITHSONIAN BOOK OF COMIC BOOK STORIES is divided into five main galleries--Underground Comics, Silve Age Super Heroes, A Raw Generation, Dark Fiction and Deep Fantasy, and The Contemporary Edge--with an additional four-color supplement of work by Chris Ware, Ben Katchor, Lynda Barry, and Jim Woodring. Bob Callahan's lively introduction places the artists' work in the continuum of American comic-book art beginning in the late 1930s, takes a keen look at the original underground comic-book artists of the late 1950s, and pays tribute to the weird and wonderful art of the 1960s and '70s. Callahan celebrates the proliferation and achievements of comic-book stories in the succeeding decades until today, when the work of so many of the artists represented here is widely appreciated throughout the world as a unique form of graphic and literary art.