Comics - The Call and the Cost (Paperback)

Paperback. Discover the reason comic creators toil away over ink stained pages, even when circumstances don't reward that hard work.This is what happens when comics meet the real world, coming face to face with politics, war, and big business. Witness creators navigate their passion and careers when faced with the intersection between art and commerce.This stellar collection includes these essays and includes archival images and illustrations: 1) The Cost of Comics: A History of the Comic Book Labor Movement2) Marge Buell and Little Lulu: Women Warriors - America's Early Female Cartoonist Entrepreneur and Her Feminist Creation3) Hector Oesterheld: Comics Own Martyr4) David Mazzucchelli Walks Away from Superheroic Success for Indie Art5) Jeff Smith and Bone: A Little Help from My Friends6) A License to Cartoon: Art and Capitalism in the Works of Schulz, Davis, and Watterson7) Afterword or Why I Write: A Justification of Rejection, Torture, and Bliss This is what happens when comics meet the real world, coming face to face with politics, war, and big business. Includes archival images and illustrations. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.…