Corpse on the Imjin! and Other Stories

Informationen zum Autor In addition to his pioneering work on the "serious" EC war comics, Harvey Kurtzman (1924-1993) created the all-time greatest satirical comic (with Mad), the most widely-read adult comic strip (with "Little Annie Fanny" in Playboy), and one of the earliest graphic novels (with the 1959 The Jungle Book). Klappentext EC reprint series kicks off with war-story masterpieces from the legendary Harvey Kurtzman. Zusammenfassung Besides Mad! Harvey Kurtzman created the scrupulously researched and superbly crafted anthologies Two-Fisted Tales and Frontline Combat! war comics without heroic! cigar-chomping sergeants! wisecracking privates from Brooklyn! or cartoon Nazis and "Japs" to be mowed down by the Yank heroes. These comics are an unflinching look at the horror and madness of combat throughout history. Kurtzman employed some of the finest of the EC artists! including the legendary Jack Davis! John Severin! and Wallace Wood! but his vision came through clearest in the dozen or so stories he both wrote and drew himself! in his uniquely bold! slashing! cartoony-but-dead-serious style ("Stonewall Jackson!" "Iwo Jima!" "Rubble!" "Big 'If '!" and Kurtzman's own favorite! "Air Burst"). "Corpse on the Imjin!" is rounded off with a dozen or so stories written and laid out by Kurtzman and drawn by a "short-timers!" i.e. cartoonists whose contributions to his war books only comprised a story or two.

Product details

• Authors: Harvey Kurtzman
• Assisted by: Gary Groth (Editor), Kurtzman Harvey (Editor)
• Publisher: Fantagraphics
• Languages: English
• Age Recommendation: ages 11 to 17
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 15.09.2012
• EAN: 9781606995457
• ISBN: 978-1-60699-545-7
• No. of pages: 230
• Series: EC Comics Library
• Subjects: Fiction > Comic, cartoon, humour, satire; COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS / General, Juvenile Fiction / Comics & Graphic Novels / General, Graphic Novels, YOUNG ADULT FICTION / Comics & Graphic Novels / General, Interest age: from c 11 years, Comic strip fiction / graphic novels (Children's / Teenage), Graphic novel / Comic book / Manga: styles / traditions