Masters of Imagination: The Comic Book Artists Hall of Fame - Hardcover
Offers profiles of thirteen top comic book artists, including Will Eisner, Joe Shuster, Jack Kirby, Carl Barks, Walt Kelly, Wallace Wood, and Steve Ditko
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Comics scholar Benton follows his five-volume History of Comics series with a more narrowly focused work profiling 13 artists who have arguably made the greatest impact on the comic book medium. His well-chosen lineup includes commercially dominant titans such as superhero king Jack Kirby, Superman cocreator Joe Shuster, and Mad's Harvey Kurtzman; humorists Carl Barks (the unbilled chronicler of Donald Duck and Uncle Scrooge) and Walt Kelly (who created Pogo for comic books years before his newspaper-strip appearance); and relatively unknown "artist's artists" Alex Toth and Bernard Krigstein. What all his subjects share is that they emphasize not flashy illustration but storytelling--the design, pacing, and flow of narrative. Benton's compilation fills a genuine need, since information on these figures has heretofore been available only in brief entries in reference books and articles in small-press magazines. Younger comics fans probably won't recognize most of these masters' names, but their work will be studied by aspiring comics artists long after most of today's trendy creators are forgotten. Gordon Flagg
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- Publication date1994
- ISBN 10 0878338594
- ISBN 13 9780878338597
- BindingHardcover
- Edition number1
- Number of pages183
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