Setting the Standard: Alex Toth
Language: English
Published by Fantagraphics Books August 2011, 2011
Series: Book 1 of 1 - Setting the Standard: Comics by Alex Toth 1952-1954
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Used Very Good Condition 1st Edition. Minor bumps/wear at edges/corners. Pages are clean and bright. Minor bending of fron cover. Spine is straight and tight.
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- Title
- Setting the Standard: Alex Toth
- Author
- Alex Toth
- Publisher
- Fantagraphics Books August 2011
- Publication year
- 2011
- Condition
- Used
- Dust jacket
- Very Good
- Binding
- Trade Paperback
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 1606994085
- ISBN 13
- 9781606994085
- Edition
- First Edition.
- Printing
- First Edition
- Series
- Book 1 of 1: Setting the Standard: Comics by Alex Toth 1952-1954
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- Part of the first generation to grow up with comic books, Alex Toth came to the medium with a fresh eye and enough talent and discipline to graphically strip it down to its bare essentials. His efforts reached fruition at Standard Comics, creating an entire school of imitators. Setting the Standard collects this highly influential body of work in one substantial volume.
- Toth began his professional career at fifteen in 1945 for Heroic Comics, but quickly advanced to superhero work for DC. Responding to the endless criticism of editors, the young artist strove toward a technique free of "showoff surface tricks, clutter, and distracting picture elements." Simply put, he learned "how to tell a story, to the exclusion of all else." After falling out with DC in 1952, Toth moved West. He freelanced almost exclusively for Standard over the next two years, contributing classic work for its crime, horror, science fiction, and war titles. But perhaps most revelatory to the reader will be the romance collaborations with writer Kim Ammodt, Toth's personal favorites. "I came to prefer them for the quieter, more credible, natural human equations they dealt with ― emotions, subtleties of gesture, expression, attitude."
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