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| A Forgotten Graphic Classic: Stan Lee and Jack Kirby’s ‘The Silver Surfer’ |
In 1978, just a couple of years after the graphic novel had been brought into being with Richard Corben’s Bloodstar in 1976, Stan Lee and Jack Kirby went back to rework their myth of Galactus and the Silver Surfer which they had originally introduced in Fantastic Four #48 (March, 1966).… |
John David Ebert |
11/17/08 |
1 |
03/21/09 |
| Richard Corben’s Bloodstar: A Look Back at the First Graphic Novel |
It was in 1976 when the underground comics artist Richard Corben teamed up with writer John Jakes to adapt Robert E. Howard’s 1934 short story “The Valley of the Worm”—one of Howard’s Cthulhu Mythos—as a comic book tale designed specifically to be read in a large format volume. The book… |
John David Ebert |
11/09/08 |
25 |
11/03/09 |
| Alan Moore’s V For Vendetta and the World We Have Become |
Between 1982 and 1988, Alan Moore wrote one of the classic graphic novels while also simultaneously working on his famous Watchmen. This was V For Vendetta, a noirish thriller set in a near future England that had been transformed into a fascist state. The novel’s protagonist was actually an anti-hero… |
John David Ebert |
11/03/08 |
14 |
07/31/09 |
| Frank Miller’s Batman and Robin and the Decline of Democratic Values |
Frank Miller stunned the world of comics when, back in 1985, he created a new vision of Batman in his Dark Knight Returns graphic novel. The image of a psychopathic Batman stalking the streets of a gigantic, crumbling Gotham, and resorting to terrorist tactics in order to capture criminals was… |
John David Ebert |
10/27/08 |
2 |
10/29/08 |
| Neil Gaiman’s 1602: A Look Back at a Graphic Failure |
Neil Gaiman’s 1602, published in 2003 - 04, continues the tradition of revisioning the superhero universe that began with Frank Miller’s Dark Knight Returns (1985), Alan Moore’s Watchmen (1986), and Gaiman’s own Sandman in 1989. Those three graphic novels had simultaneously announced the maturation of the graphic novel as a… |
John David Ebert |
10/20/08 |
0 |
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| Watchmen: Or, The Twilight of the Superheroes |
Watchmen is arguably the most important graphic novel ever written. It established the medium of the graphic novel henceforth as one to be taken seriously and placed alongside film as the new pictorial artform in which complex stories with rich thematic material could be displayed upon a reticulated grid of… |
John David Ebert |
10/13/08 |
0 |
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