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Setting the Standard A massive anthology collecting one of the medium's indispensable masters: Alex Toth. Full description
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- 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.
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- ÉditeurFantagraphics Books
- Date d'édition2011
- ISBN 10 1606994085
- ISBN 13 9781606994085
- ReliureBroché
- Langueanglais
- Nombre de pages416
- ÉditeurSadowski Greg
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Setting the Standard: Alex Toth
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Setting the Standard: Alex Toth
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Setting the Standard: Comics By Alex Toth 1952 - 54
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Fantagaphics, 2011
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Oversize Paperback. Etat : Near Fine. First Edition. Book has a 1" closed tear on the back cover, scuffing, very light corner wear, otherwise very clean with creaseless covers and spine. Binding is solid and square, covers have sharp corners, , text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind. 432 pages, almost all color comics in large format, 32 page intro essay. 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." 3. N° de réf. du vendeur 158299
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SETTING THE STANDARD comics by alex toth 1952-1954
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