{"title":"Charles Hatfield","description":"Charles Hatfield is associate professor of English at California State University, Northridge, and is author or coeditor of many books, including The Superhero Reader and Hand of Fire: The Comic Art of Jack Kirby, both published by University Press of Mississippi.","products":[{"product_id":"alternative-comics-an-emerging-literature-paperback","title":"Alternative Comics: An Emerging Literature - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn the 1980s, a sea change occurred in comics. Fueled by Art Spiegel- man and Françoise Mouly's avant-garde anthology \u003ci\u003eRaw\u003c\/i\u003e and the launch of the \u003ci\u003eLove \u0026amp; Rockets\u003c\/i\u003e series by Gilbert, Jaime, and Mario Hernandez, the decade saw a deluge of comics that were more autobiographical, emotionally realistic, and experimental than anything seen before. These alternative comics were not the scatological satires of the 1960s underground, nor were they brightly colored newspaper strips or superhero comic books. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e In \u003ci\u003eAlternative Comics: An Emerging Literature\u003c\/i\u003e, Charles Hatfield establishes the parameters of alternative comics by closely examining long-form comics, in particular the graphic novel. He argues that these are fundamentally a literary form and offers an extensive critical study of them both as a literary genre and as a cultural phenomenon. Combining sharp-eyed readings and illustrations from particular texts with a larger understanding of the comics as an art form, this book discusses the development of specific genres, such as autobiography and history. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003ci\u003eAlternative Comics\u003c\/i\u003e analyzes such seminal works as Spiegelman's \u003ci\u003eMaus\u003c\/i\u003e, Gilbert Hernandez's \u003ci\u003ePalomar: The Heartbreak Soup Stories\u003c\/i\u003e, and Justin Green's \u003ci\u003eBinky Brown Meets the Holy Virgin Mary\u003c\/i\u003e. Hatfield explores how issues outside of cartooning-the marketplace, production demands, work schedules-can affect the final work. Using Hernandez's Palomar as an example, he shows how serialization may determine the way a cartoonist structures a narrative. In a close look at \u003ci\u003eMaus\u003c\/i\u003e, Binky Brown, and Harvey Pekar's American Splendor, Hatfield teases out the complications of creating biography and autobiography in a substantially visual medium, and shows how creators approach these issues in radically different ways.","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50799385444575,"sku":"9781578067190","price":54.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/66260FUXTP9781578067190.webp?v=1785827771"},{"product_id":"hand-of-fire-the-comics-art-of-jack-kirby-hardcover","title":"Hand of Fire: The Comics Art of Jack Kirby - Hardcover","description":"\u003cp\u003eJack Kirby (1917-1994) is one of the most influential and popular artists in comics history. With Stan Lee, he created the Fantastic Four and defined the drawing and narrative style of Marvel Comics from the 1960s to the present day. Kirby is credited with creating or cocreating a number of Marvel's mainstay properties, among them the X-Men, the Hulk, Thor, and the Silver Surfer. His earlier work with Joe Simon led to the creation of Captain America, the popular kid gang and romance comic genres, and one of the most successful comics studios of the 1940s and 1950s. Kirby's distinctive narrative drawing, use of bold abstraction, and creation of angst-ridden and morally flawed heroes mark him as one of the most influential mainstream creators in comics. In this book, Charles Hatfield examines the artistic legacy of one of America's true comic book giants. He analyzes the development of Kirby's cartooning technique, his use of dynamic composition, the recurring themes and moral ambiguities in his work, his eventual split from Lee, and his later work as a solo artist. Against the backdrop of Kirby's earlier work in various genres, Hand of Fire examines the peak of Kirby's career, when he introduced a new sense of scope and sublimity to comic book fantasy.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eFront Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe first critical exploration of the work of a great comics creator\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50813547249887,"sku":"9781617031779","price":198.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/QCu52faPDZ9781617031779.webp?v=1785845794"},{"product_id":"hand-of-fire-the-comics-art-of-jack-kirby-paperback","title":"Hand of Fire: The Comics Art of Jack Kirby - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJack Kirby (1917-1994) is one of the most influential and popular artists in comics history. 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