Monte Beauchamp
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"In a first-of-its-kind collection, award-winning illustrators celebrate the lives of the visionary artists who created the world of comic art and altered pop culture forever. No one has told the story of comic art in its own medium, until now. In Masterful Marks, top illustrators--including Drew Friedman, Nora Krug, Denis Kitchen, and Peter Kuper--reveal how sixteen visionary cartoonists overcame massive financial, political, and personal challenges...
Author
Language
English
Description
A rollicking history of alcohol and its literary imbibers, from Jane Austen's beer brewing to James Joyce's passion for Guinness to E.B. White's cure for writers' block-a dry martini-by celebrated illustrator Greg Clarke and award-winning editor/art director Monte Beauchamp. "Civilization begins with distillation."-William Faulkner "Bourbon does for me what the piece of cake did for Proust."-Walker Percy "God has a brown voice, full and soft as beer."-Anne...
Publisher
Dark Horse
Pub. Date
2016
Language
English
Description
Consumers embrace the skull: Nike, Calvin Klein, Zippo, and Crystal Head Vodka feature them as product lines. Skulls adorn artwork, sneakers, candy, skateboards, jewelry, and even wallpaper. The skull is everywhere in pop culture! Never before has a book addressed the skull as a cover motif during the Golden Age of American publishing. Countless skull-themed comic book, pulp, and paperback covers appeared from the 1930s through the mid-50s. Popular...