Give Our Regards to the Atomsmashers! Writers on Comics

Name: Give Our Regards to the Atomsmashers! Writers on Comics
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ISBN: 9780375422560

ISBN-10: 0375422560

ISBN-13: 9780375422560

Edition: 2004

Authors: Sean Howe

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In Give Our Regards to the Atom-smashers!, some of our most intriguing and creative contemporary writers weigh in on the world of comics: the ones they love versus the ones they hate, the comics they devoured as kids and still can't live without, and the comics that have influenced them in their work and their lives. Here is Jonathan Lethem on childhood friendships, comic books, and the genius of artist Jack Kirby . . . Brad Meltzer on spending a summer vacation with the New Teen Titans. . . Glen David Gold on the obsessive nature of collecting . . . Myla Goldberg writing about the disturbed visions of Chris Ware and Renée French . . . Steve Erickson riffing on the perverse patriotism of…

Book details

List price: $24.95
Copyright year: 2004
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publication date: 6/29/2004
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 240
Size: 6.50" wide x 8.75" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.506
Language: English

Sean Howe is the editor of Give Our Regards to the Atomsmashers!: Writers on Comics and the Deep Focus series of film books. He is a former editor and critic at Entertainment Weekly , and his writing has appeared in New York , The Los Angeles Times , Slate , Spin , and The Village Voice . He lives in Brooklyn, New York.



Introduction


The Return of the King, or, Identifying with Your Parents


The Clear Line


Comics in a Man's Life


Flat and Glad


The Ger Sheker


American Flagg


Seduced by Classics Illustrated


How I Spent My Summer Vacation with The Judas Contract


This World, That World, and the Invisible Hinge: The Words & Pictures of Jim Woodring


Nick Fury's Dream


Oui, je regrette presque tout


Slumberland


Kltpzyxm!


NoMan Was My Man


The Man on the Street


The Exquisite Strangeness and Estrangement of Renee French and Chris Ware


Steve Ditko's Hands


Acknowledgments


About the Contributors