#library of american comics

[downthetubes]

Recommded Reading: Dean Mullaney and Bruce Canwell's books charting the life and career of Alex Toth, "Artists' Artist"

American comic artist Alex Toth's work is still hugely admired to this day, and well-deserving of a three-book series of guides by Dean Mullaney and Bruce Canwell that chart his amazing 60-year professional career

[my-midlife-crisis]

[nando161mando]

It's not an accident that Republicans are censoring history books that mention the Nazi Holocaust or American slavery.

https://www.britannica.com/

https://theanarchistlibrary.org/special/index

https://libcom.org/

https://www.splcenter.org/

https://archive.org/

https://thewhiterosesociety.writeas.com/

https://slackbastard.anarchobase.com/

https://manybooks.net/

http://2020ok.com/

https://www.iww.org/

https://www.iwa-ait.org/

https://audioanarchy.org/

https://www.akpress.org/

https://deathtofascism.com/files/40ways.online.2020.pdf

[katabay]

steve and bucky, stometime in the 1930s!

it's. like. man, I haven't touched a marvel comic in forever and the mcu is dead to me, but I still love some of those characters so much and god, when winter soldier came out. that sure was an experience :')

anyway. nostalgia!! I ended up writing out a small scene just for kicks, but then I realized that no one was stopping me from drawing it and then it got out of hand because the thumbnails clocked in at a thirty pages, but I've cut it down to twelve through the power of editing, so. in the year 2023. I started working on a pre-serum stucky fancomic.

this feels like something I was doing a decade ago and I feel like I've been transported back in time lmao. you never forget your favorite comics or their movie adaptions!!

[fraudue]

currently trying to explore reading wise - does anyone have comics/graphic novel/manga recommendations! or just books you think are worth reading in general, please send them my way

[creetchure]

Cool you're in America, you get to use DCUI to legally read your comics online have you considered: couldn't be me.

[clowngremlin]

did some reading today......this year i'm gonna try to read more because i used to love to read and then i stopped and i have a ton of books i want to read....

[randimason]

There’s a lovely article about Neil Gaiman by Tara Brady in the Irish Times which covers so many topics including the broadcast adaptions of Sandman, American Gods & Dead Boy Detectives; the stage adaption of Ocean at the End of the Lane; and the roots of the novel of Ocean at the End of the Lane.

Even with all that career retrospective, the screengrab is my very biased choice of pull quote.

Well worth the read.

[norahsinfinitecommonplace]

He set out to prove the church was more important than his own daughter. - American Cult, p. 138

(specific comic by J.T. Yost)

[the--art--of--reading]

book review | I Was Their American Dream

Author: Malaka Gharib

Cover Design: Danielle Deschenes - sorry for the blurry cover art in this post :(

Genre: Graphic Novel, Memoir

Rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐

One part Mari Andrew, one part Marjane Satrapi, I Was Their American Dream: A Graphic Memoir is a triumphant tale of self-discovery, a celebration of a family's rich heritage, and a love letter to American immigrant freedom. Malaka Gharib's illustrations come alive with teenage antics and earnest questions about identity and culture, while providing thoughtful insight into the lives of modern immigrants and the generation of millennial children they raised. Malaka's upbringing will look familiar to anyone who grew up in the pre-internet era, but her particular story is a heartfelt tribute to the American immigrants who have invested their future in the promise of the American dream. The daughter of parents with unfulfilled dreams themselves, Malaka navigates her childhood chasing her parents' ideals, learning to code-switch between her family's Filipino and Egyptian customs, adapting to white culture to fit in, crushing on skater boys, and trying to understand the tension between holding onto cultural values and trying to be an all-American kid. I Was Their American Dream is at once a journal of growing up and a reminder of the thousands of immigrants who come to America in search for a better life for themselves and their children.

A quick read that gave me a lot to think about! I love reading the stories of immigrants and first generation Americans because I see so much of my experience reflected in theirs. Gharib does a wonderful job of balancing her own experiences with commentary on how many people from foreign backgrounds struggle to navigate straddling two (or three) cultural identities in addition to American life. The illustrations are fun (sometimes visually overwhelming, but in a good way) and I liked how it was organized into different sections. I do wish the pacing had been a bit slower, some parts flew by, but I feel like that's the case for many memoir style graphic novels. Overall, a great addition to this genre and a great weekend read! Similar reads: Almost American Girl by Robin Ha and Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi. 

Find this book on Goodreads - I Was Their American Dream 

Check me out on Goodreads! 

[calaxgothard]

Welcome to the Motor Crush fanblog managed by Achilles!

Here you'll find general posts about the comic, art, writing, headcannons, edits, aesthetics, playlists and more!

If you're new to Motor Crush check the link below!

Vol 1

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Storm King Comics unveils Exclusive previews at the 2024 ALA Annual Conference

Storm King Comics unveils Exclusive previews at the 2024 ALA Annual Conference #ala #alaconference #ala2024

Renowned producer and editor Sandy King and legendary filmmaker John Carpenter present Storm King Comics at the 2024 ALA Annual Conference & Exhibition from June 27 to July 2, 2024. Diehard fans of horror, scifi, and genre storytelling can find Storm King Comics at Booth #233 (Graphic Novel/Gaming Alley) in the San Diego Convention Center.  Horror fans can get an exclusive preview of the highly…

[my-midlife-crisis]

[nando161mando]

Yikes 😬

The wolf is at the door now. We are at that point in time.

Via: Utah Library Association

6:12 PM · Feb 3, 2024

"If you are a Utahn concerned about ongoing threats to librarians and teachers, and book-banning, go to Let Utah Read to learn more about the issues and how you can help."

#Utah #BookBans

[thelegendofeowyn]

Wisps in the Americas

I can't say I know much about the historical background of this cartoon, but if you look on the right side, you'll see a barely-visible white light, which is supposed to be a will-o'-the-wisp.

Here's a not-great-quality zoomed in version focused more closely on the little wisp.

The background given by the Library of Congress is as follows:

About this Item: Title - Ignis fatuus / Th. Nast. Summary - Print shows men lurking in a swamp at nighttime; one man slices a poster entitled "Military Bill" with a knife; one man wears a hat that says "Ex-CSA"; snakes laugh in the foreground; and a will o' the wisp containing the words "Hope Connecticut" hovers over the water. Names - Nast, Thomas, 1840-1902, artist Created / Published - 1867

I wonder how wisps have managed to become a coherent, popularized singular type of entity in the modern day. I have no doubt that there was evolution (and likely appropriation) from some previous entities to the present idea of a wisp. Perhaps finding out when the European motif of wisps reached the United States will assist me in solving the puzzle of what previous entities or phenomena added characteristics to today's depictions of wisps.