Popeye: the Classic Newspaper Comics by Bobby London Volume 1 (1986-1989)
Title | Popeye: the Classic Newspaper Comics by Bobby London Volume 1 (1986-1989) PDF eBook |
Author | Bobby London |
Publisher | Library of American Comics |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2014 |
Genre | Oyl, Olive (Fictitious character) |
ISBN | 9781613778746 |
A collection of newspaper comic strips originally published February 24, 1986-April 29, 1989.
Popeye
Title | Popeye PDF eBook |
Author | Bobby London |
Publisher | |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2014 |
Genre | Hand-to-hand fighting |
ISBN | 9781631401299 |
"When we say "complete," we mean COMPLETE. Bobby London's take on the Sailor Man has often been overshadowed by his being fired from the strip in 1992, ostensibly for presenting a storyline that was an allegory about abortion. In that ultimate tale, Olive had become addicted to the Home Shopping Network and ordered a Baby Brutus mechanical doll. When Popeye insists that she get rid of the "baby," two priests mistakenly believe that the baby is real and that Olive is going to exercise her pro-choice rights. King Features Syndicate pulled the final three weeks of strips and daily newspapers began running reprints. Story over in mid-stream. Now, twenty-two years later, thanks to the kind cooperation of the good folks at King Features, those three weeks will be included in this second volume of the IDW series. But wait... that's not all! Turns out that Bobby London produced an additional six weeks of strips beyond the three that were pulled from syndication This book contains - for the first time anywhere - all nine weeks of "censored" Bobby London Popeye strips."--Provided from publisher.
Andre the Giant
Title | Andre the Giant PDF eBook |
Author | Brian "Box" Brown |
Publisher | First Second |
Pages | 244 |
Release | 2014-05-06 |
Genre | Comics & Graphic Novels |
ISBN | 1466858788 |
Andre Roussimoff is known as both the lovable giant in The Princess Bride and a heroic pro-wrestling figure. He was a normal guy who'd been dealt an extraordinary hand in life. At his peak, he weighed 500 pounds and stood nearly seven and a half feet tall. But the huge stature that made his fame also signed his death warrant. Box Brown brings his great talents as a cartoonist and biographer to this phenomenal new graphic novel. Drawing from historical records about Andre's life as well as a wealth of anecdotes from his colleagues in the wrestling world, including Hulk Hogan, and his film co-stars (Billy Crystal, Robin Wright, Mandy Patinkin, etc), Brown has created in Andre the Giant, the first substantive biography of one of the twentieth century's most recognizable figures.
Popeye Classics
Title | Popeye Classics PDF eBook |
Author | Bud Sagendorf |
Publisher | IDW Publishing |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2013 |
Genre | Comic books, strips, etc |
ISBN | 9781613775578 |
Re-presenting the classic Popeye comic book series that debuted in 1948 by Bud Sagendorf, the long-time assistant to creator E.C. Segar! Carefully reproduced from the original comic books and lovingly restored, Volume 1 contains issues #1-4, with stories such as "That's What I Yam," "Ghost Island," and "Dead Valley." Also includes all of Sagendorf's gloriously funny one-pagers.
Dirty Duck
Title | Dirty Duck PDF eBook |
Author | Bobby London |
Publisher | IDW Publishing |
Pages | 304 |
Release | 2016-09-06 |
Genre | Comics & Graphic Novels |
ISBN | 9781631406553 |
Bobby London's legendary career as an underground cartoonist has spanned decades. London created his most enduring character, the outrageous and irrepressible Dirty Duck in 1971. He was a founding member of the infamous Air Pirates, and produced strips for National Lampoon during the heyday of that massively influential magazine. After departing the Lampoon, the cigar-chomping Dirty Duck and his creator found a home at Playboy magazine. He wrote and drew the syndicated Popeye newspaper strip for six years until a major controversy ended his tenure on Segar s sailor. This oversized volume will collect nearly all of London s influential Dirty Duck strips, from Air Pirates Funnies, National Lampoon, Playboy and other publications. Many of the strips have been scanned from the original art in the artist s vast personal archives, including rare and unpublished preliminary drawings. A contemporary of Gilbert Shelton, R. Crumb and the ZAP crew, London s legacy is a major piece of history in the great American art form. In 1978 London was awarded the prestigious Yellow Kid Award for best writer/artist at the Lucca Comics Festival for his work on Dirty Duck. Introduction by Drew Friedman."
Fairy Tale Comics
Title | Fairy Tale Comics PDF eBook |
Author | Various Authors |
Publisher | First Second |
Pages | 132 |
Release | 2013-09-24 |
Genre | Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | 1466843861 |
From favorites like "Puss in Boots" and "Goldilocks" to obscure gems like "The Boy Who Drew Cats," Fairy Tale Comics has something to offer every reader. Seventeen fairy tales are wonderfully adapted and illustrated in comics format by seventeen different cartoonists, including Raina Telgemeier, Brett Helquist, Cherise Harper, and more. Edited by Nursery Rhyme Comics' Chris Duffy, this jacketed hardcover is a beautiful gift and an instant classic.
The Pirates and the Mouse
Title | The Pirates and the Mouse PDF eBook |
Author | Bob Levin |
Publisher | Fantagraphics Books |
Pages | 272 |
Release | 2003-07-09 |
Genre | Comics & Graphic Novels |
ISBN | 156097530X |
During a time of unprecedented political, social, and cultural upheaval in U.S. history, one of the fiercest battles was ignited by a comic book. In 1963, the San Francisco Chronicle made 21-year-old Dan O'Neill the youngest syndicated cartoonist in American newspaper history. As O'Neill delved deeper into the emerging counterculture, his strip, Odd Bodkins, became stranger and stranger and more and more provocative, until the papers in the syndicate dropped it and the Chronicle let him go. The lesson that O'Neill drew from this was that what America most needed was the destruction of Walt Disney. O'Neill assembled a band of rogue cartoonists called the Air Pirates (after a group of villains who had bedeviled Mickey Mouse in comic books and cartoons). They lived communally in a San Francisco warehouse owned by Francis Ford Coppola and put out a comic book, Air Pirates Funnies, that featured Disney characters participating in very un-Disneylike behavior, provoking a mammoth lawsuit for copyright and trademark infringements and hundreds of thousands of dollars in damages. Disney was represented by one of San Francisco's top corporate law firms and the Pirates by the cream of the counterculture bar. The lawsuit raged for 10 years, from the trial court to the US Supreme Court and back again.