Tuesday, October 17, 1995

World War 3 Illustrated: Confrontational Comics

World War 3 Illustrated: Confrontational Comics

World War 3 Illustrated: Confrontational Comics

This graphic collection gathers the work of more than thirty artists who represent both the extreme edge of the comic art and its future. They are radical voices for the 21st century. Included are artists such as Peter Kuper, a frequent contributor to Time magazine, The New Yorker, The Village Voice, and The New York Times (where he had the first and only comic strip to run regularly in that paper); Eric Drooker, author/artist of the award-winning Flood! A Novel in Pictures: James Romberger, whose work is in the permanent collection of the New York Metropolitan Museum of Art; and Mike Diana, famous now as the first cartoonist in U.S. history sentenced to jail as a result of his work. Here, politics is mixed with the personal. Stories range from Sandy Jiminez's tale of homophobia in the Latin community to Sabrina Jones's articulate defense of her right to have an abortion, from Seth Tobocman's account of the squatters' movement on New York's Lower East Side to a piece by Mumia Abu Jamal commenting on the "three strikes" judiciary guidelines.

ISBN: 1568580398
Author: Scott Cunningham
Publisher: Running Press
Rating: 3.89

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Sunday, October 15, 1995

Warfare in the Classical World: An Illustrated Encyclopedia of Weapons, Warriors and Warfare in the Ancient Civilizations of Greece and Rome

Warfare in the Classical World: An Illustrated Encyclopedia of Weapons, Warriors and Warfare in the Ancient Civilizations of Greece and Rome

Warfare in the Classical World: An Illustrated Encyclopedia of Weapons, Warriors and Warfare in the Ancient Civilizations of Greece and Rome

This superbly illustrated volume traces the evolution of the art of warfare in the Greek and Roman worlds between 1600 B.C. and A.D. 800, from the rise of Mycenaean civilization to the fall of Ravenna and the collapse of the Western Roman Empire. John Warry tells of an age of great military commanders such as Alexander the Great, Hannibal, and Julius Caesar - men whose feats of generalship still provide material for discussion and admiration in the military academies of the world.

The text is complemented by a running chronology, 16 maps, 50 newly researched battle plans and tactical diagrams, and 125 photographs, 65 of them in color.

ISBN: 0806127945
Author: John Warry
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
Rating: 4.11

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Sunday, May 1, 1994

Popeye: An Illustrated History of E.C. Segar s Character in Print, Radio, Television, and Film Appearances, 1929 1993

Popeye: An Illustrated History of E.C. Segar s Character in Print, Radio, Television, and Film Appearances, 1929 1993

Popeye: An Illustrated History of E.C. Segar s Character in Print, Radio, Television, and Film Appearances, 1929 1993

Here is the history of Popeye, one of the best-loved cartoon characters. Animated series and films are examined, noting the different directions each studio took and the changing character designs of the Popeye family. Popeye in other media -- comics, books, radio, and even a stage play -- is thoroughly covered, as are Robert Altman's 1980 live-action film, and Popeye memorabilia.

ISBN: 0899509827
Author: Fred M. Grandinetti
Publisher: McFarland & Company
Rating: 3.00

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Saturday, January 1, 1994

There Goes the Neighborhood

There Goes the Neighborhood

There Goes the Neighborhood

ISBN: 0533109272
Author: Robert Rushlyn
Publisher: Vantage Press
Rating: 0.00

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Friday, November 1, 1991

If You Sailed On The Mayflower

If You Sailed On The Mayflower

If You Sailed On The Mayflower

A different time...a different place...What if you were there?

If you sailed on the Mayflower
--What could you take with you?
--How would you keep clean?
--What would you do when you first got to shoer?

Get ready to go back in time to 1620 to discover what it was like to sail the Mayflower!

ISBN: 0590451618
Author: Ann McGovern
Publisher: Scholastic Paperbacks
Rating: 3.92

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Monday, April 1, 1991

There Goes the Neighborhood

There Goes the Neighborhood

There Goes the Neighborhood

Neighborhood creator Jerry Van Amerongen has carted his bizarre family of eccentrics away to the Old Cartoon Characters Rest Home, but their hilarious antics are immortalized in this last family album. A must for all the crazy fans to keep these bizarre but lovable characters alive.

ISBN: 0836218744
Author: Jerry Van Amerongen
Publisher: Andrews McMeel Publishing
Rating: 4.36

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Saturday, December 1, 1990

John Steinbeck, Writer

John Steinbeck, Writer

John Steinbeck, Writer

Winner of the 1940 Pulitzer Prize for The Grapes of Wrath (1939) and recipient of the Nobel Prize in 1962, John Steinbeck (1902-1968) was one of America's most important and influential writers. Jackson J. Benson's definitive biography explores every aspect of the author's life-his campaigns for the rights of the little people; his stand on the Vietnam War; his Hollywood film scripts; and his ongoing difficulties with fame, the press, and lack of privacy-to reveal the private man behind the public persona.

* Winner of the PEN-USA West award for non-fiction

Author Bio: Jackson J. Benson has published nine books on modern American literature, including Wallace Stegner: His Life and Work, which won the David Woolley and Beatrice Cannon Evans Biography award presented by Utah State University.

ISBN: 014014417X
Author: Jackson J. Benson
Publisher: Penguin Books
Rating: 4.15

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