Discusses the life of John Buscema and what inspired him to come up with the characters he writes about.

Norrin Radd sacrifi ced himself to save his planet and his true love Shalla-Bal from the world-devourer Galactus - but the price was servitude as mighty Galactus' herald, the Silver Surfer! Now, exiled on Earth, the Surfer struggles to understand the beauty and humanity of mortal men, and nobly seeks to heal the rifts that separate man from his brothers. Created by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby in the pages of FANTASTIC FOUR, the Silver Surfer embodies Lee's socially conscious writing and Kirby's mind-blowing cosmic concepts - and here, he is joined by another creator who grants him a soul-wrenching humanity: the one and only John Buscema! Experience staggering and unique tales as mankind is explored through the eyes of an outsider. COLLECTING: SILVER SURFER (1968) 1-18; MATERIAL FROM FANTASTIC FOUR ANNUAL (1963) 5, NOT BRAND ECHH (1967) 13

Have you ever wanted to create characters that look like they belong on the big screen? In How to Paint Characters the Marvel Studios Way, you'll learn tips and tricks from some of the industry's best concept artists. Ryan Meinerding, Andy Park, and the other artists behind Marvel Studios' Visual Development department will share their method for creating iconic designs for all your favorite characters, from Captain America to Black Panther. Learn their favorite tools of the trade, their tips for visual character development and their process of collaborating with other artists on the team and the costume and props departments to create seamless film designs.

This penultimate work in John Lent's series of bibliographies on comic art gathers together an astounding array of citations on American cartoonists and their work. Author John Lent has used all manner of methods to gather the citations, searching library and online databases, contacting scholars and other professionals, attending conferences and festivals, and scanning hundreds of periodicals. He has gone to great length to categorize the citations in an easy-to-use, scholarly fashion, and in the process, has helped to establish the field of comic art as an important part of social science and humanities research. The ten volumes in this series, covering all regions of the world, constitute the largest printed bibliography of comic art in the world, and serve as the beacon guiding the burgeoning fields of animation, comics, and cartooning. They are the definitive works on comic art research, and are exhaustive in their inclusiveness, covering all types of publications (academic, trade, popular, fan, etc.) from all over the world. Also included in these books are citations to systematically-researched academic exercises, as well as more ephemeral sources such as fanzines, press articles, and fugitive materials (conference papers, unpublished documents, etc.), attesting to Lent's belief that all pieces of information are vital in a new field of study such as comic art.