Captain Easy, Soldier of Fortune: The Complete Sunday Newspaper Strips Vol 1 - Couverture rigide

Crane, Roy

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1606991612 ISBN 13 : 9781606991619

Editeur : Fantagraphics Books, 2010

Synopsis

Roy Crane created the first American adventure strip: Wash Tubbs. The character Captain Easy spun off into his own Sunday page in 1933, and Captain Easy, Soldier of Fortune: The Complete Sunday Newspaper Strips Vol. 1 collects these full-color strips from that point until 1935. In Volume One, Captain Easy visits a lost city, battles pirates, dons a diving suit in search of treasure; everywhere he goes, he finds beautiful women. Captain Easy not only influenced roles for the likes of Hollywood actors such as Cary Grant or Errol Flynn, he influenced virtually every comics hero who followed him - Gil Kane once said "Superman was Captain Easy; Batman was Captain Easy." Crane combined adventure and humor in a Bigfoot cartooning style: according to comic-strip historian Richard Marschall, Crane "develop[ed] expressive techniques and a whole dictionary of conventions and signs for future comic strip artists. Volume One also features some of the best and rarest Roy Crane art, as well as illustrations from his sketchbooks. It will also contain biographical and critical introductions to Crane and his work.

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Roy Crane is a GIANT among cartoonists and Fantagraphics is embarking upon an ambitious reprinting of his best work within CAPTAIN EASY, SOLDIER OF FORTURNE. Dig in and bask in the radiance of these FULL COLOR, prismatic Sunday strips! Discover with each page a buried treasure of adventure and chicanery replete with Crane's mastery of comics storytelling. Citing Crane's influence on comics, the artist Gil Kane once said, "Superman was Captain Easy; Batman was Captain Easy." BEWARE! Beautiful women! Pirates! Sunken ships! And fun! fun! FUN! are barely contained within this beautiful package brought to you by Fantagraphics, the torchbearer of quality when it comes to classic comic strip reprints.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Fantagraphics Books
• Date d'édition: 2010
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1606991612
• ISBN 13: 9781606991619
• Reliure: Relié
• Numéro d'édition: 1
• Nombre de pages: 160
• Éditeur: Rick Norwood
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible