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Boys of steel : the creators of Superman
Jerry Siegel & Joe Shuster, two misfit teens in Cleveland, were more like Clark Kent than Superman. Both boys escaped into the worlds of science fiction and pulp magazine tales. In 1934, they created the superhero, but it was four years before they convinced a publisher to take a chance on their Man of Steel in a new format--the comic book.
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Super Bodies
Finalist — San Diego Comic-Con International 2024 Eisner Award in Best Academic/Scholarly Work 2024 MPCA/ACA Best Book for Use in the Classroom, Midwest Popular Culture Association / Midwest American Culture Association (MPCA/ACA) An examination of the art in superhero comics and how style influences comic narratives. For many, the idea of comic book art implies simplistic four-color renderings of stiff characters slugging it out. In fact, modern superhero comic books showcase a range of complex artistic styles, with diverse connotations. Leading comics scholar Jeffrey A. Brown assesses six distinct approaches to superhero illustration—idealism, realism, cute, retro, grotesque, and noir—examining how each visually represents the superhero as a symbolic construct freighted with meaning. Whereas comic book studies tend to focus on text and narrative, Super Bodies gives overdue credit to the artwork, which is not only a principal source of the appeal of comic books but also central to the values these works embody. Brown argues that superheroes are to be taken not as representations of people but as iconic types, and the art conveys this. Even the most realistic comic illustrations are designed to suggest not persons but ideas—ideas about bodies and societies. Thus the appearance of superheroes both directly and indirectly influences the story being told as well as the opinions readers form concerning justice, authority, gender, puberty, sexuality, ethnicity, violence, and other concepts central to political and cultural life.
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Introduction: Comics and Modernism
[...]Michael Wood, in an essay on modernism and film, points out that despite the temptation \"to argue that all films are Modernist, that the cinema itself is an accelerated image of modernity,\" the medium has demonstrated a \"yearning to become the twentieth century's version of the nineteenth century's novel\" by consistently embracing realism's narrative coherence (269). [...]while it must be said at the outset that the cluster is hardly comprehensive in its coverage of modernism and comics - it does not extend beyond Anglo-American contexts, and the authors discussed are all white and male - the essays included here nevertheless helpfully sketch out some of the currently underexplored approaches to reading comics and modernism together, and thus offer a starting point for new critical conversations. [...]my own contribution, \"The Integrity of the Work: Alan Moore, Modernism, and the Corporate Author,\" extends the burgeoning body of scholarship on modernism and copyright, led by scholars such as Paul K. Saint-Amour and Robert Spoo, to comics studies.
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The Well-Born Superhero
Early literature of the dual-identity hero spans not only comic books but plays, silent film, radio, popular novels, and pulp fiction magazines, in an expanse of genres that, in addition to superhero narratives, includes adventure, western, crime, science fiction, and romance. Where selective breeding promised the eventual biological transformation of the ruling class into a ruling race of supermen, fantastical supermen of genre literatures popular before comic books delivered the eugenic future in a single bound.
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POLISHED GEM; How a Honda store nobody wanted led to a big jackpot
[...]after scouring L.A.'s pricey real estate market for years, they settled on a site about 3 miles away in a thriving area of development near the University of Southern California campus. The hard part The partners started from scratch, with no sales and just a dozen or so service department employees from the previous management who had continued to provide service work under bankruptcy court direction despite the store being out of business. The project was rife with construction delays, challenges from the city regarding special permitting and zoning, plus two closing postponements because of coronavirus restrictions, Scrivner and the partners recall. After the sale, Wolfington said he planned to focus on his auto tech businesses, such as CarSaver, an automotive online sales platform.
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