Setting the Standard: Alex Toth - Couverture souple

Toth, Alex

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1606994085 ISBN 13 : 9781606994085

Editeur : Fantagraphics Books, 2011

Synopsis

• 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."

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

• 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."

Présentation de l'éditeur

Alex Toth's influence on the art of comic books is incalculable. As his generation was the first to grow up with the new 10-cent full-colour pamphlets, he 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 and establishing Toth as the comic book artist's artist. Setting the Standard collects this highly influential body of work in one substantial volume.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Fantagraphics Books
• Date d'édition: 2011
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1606994085
• ISBN 13: 9781606994085
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 416
• Éditeur: Sadowski Greg
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible