Graphic novel biography
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By the author of The Comic Book Heroes, Killing Monsters, and scores of successful comic books and screenplays, Men of Tomorrow is the first book to tell the surprising story of the young Jewish misfits, hustlers and nerds who invented the superhero and the comic book industry. Among the characters in this vibrant panorama: · Jerry Seigel and Joe Shuster, the goofy myopic creators of Superman, who sold the rights to the Man of Tomorrow for $130 to…· Harry Donenfield, former pornographer and con-man, and his partner, Jack Liebowitz, founder of DC Comics, who went on to help build Steve Ross's legendary Warner Communications· Batman's Bob Kane, who rose to fame and fortune in a career based entirely on lies and self-promotion· Mort Weisinger, the ruthless editor of Superman, who suffered a nervous breakdown when he tried to be a superhero himself · Plus Stan Lee, founder of a new kind of hero, including Spiderman, at Marvel Comics; Will Eisner, whose crea
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Biographies in Graphic Novel Form
Debus, Luca & Francesco Matteuzzi. Funny Things: A Comic Strip Biography of Charles M. Schulz. Top Shelf. Aug. 2023. 440p. ISBN 9781603095266. $39.99. BIOG
The life and times of one of the most beloved and influential artists of the 20th century are revealed in this biography from Debus (The Importance of Being Earnest: A Trivial Comic Strip for Serious People) and Matteuzzi (Banksy: A Graphic Novel). Rather than rendering their subject’s life in a straightforward graphic novel narrative form, the creators present Schulz’s story in the format of a daily newspaper comic strip, with six black and white strips consisting of four or five panels in between full-page, four-color “Sunday” spreads. As readers follow Schulz’s development from a lonesome, introverted child who fantasizes about one day becoming a successful cartoonist, to eventually achieving undreamed of success as the creator of the internationally beloved Peanuts characters, t
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10 Graphic Biographies Bring Notable Figures to Life | Stellar Panels
Graphic biographies have long been a staple of school and library publishers. Even in the dark ages of the 1980s and 1990s, when graphic novels for young readers all but disappeared from bookstores and comic shops, educational publishers kept producing them, perhaps for the obvious reason that children like them.
As the graphic format has grown in recent years, so have the number and variety of graphic biographies. Publishers and creators are finding new people to beskrivning and new formats for bringing their stories to readers. Many graphic biographies are coming over from France, where the format has long been popular.
These titles raise the same issue as all biographies, plus a few more. Accuracy is key, and with graphic biographies, that includes images depicting the setting as well as the facts of the subject’s life. A good biographer will consult contemporary images to ensure that clothing, objects, and ba