The Spawn of Venus and Other Stories - Couverture rigide

Wood, Wallace; Feldstein, Al; Bradbury, Ray

Couverture rigide

ISBN 13 : 9798875000393

Editeur : Fantagraphics, 2025

Synopsis

This mouth-watering collection features the finest (and rarest!) science fiction stories Wallace Wood ever drew - more than two dozen! Wood's meticulously detailed, genre-defining brushwork introduces you to breathtaking planetary vistas, terrifying aliens, and sleek rocket ships surging with the power to conquer the stars. Our title story is a rarity that never appeared in any EC comic. Written and drawn for a 3-D comic that was canceled before it could be printed, we present it here in easy-on-the-eyes 2-D. Then, Wood's most iconic story, 'My World' is a stunning showcase of the preternatural talent and technique he brought to all his stories. Also included are his trilogy of Ray Bradbury adaptations - 'Home to Stay,' 'There Will Come Soft Rains...' and 'Mars Is Heaven!' - plus 'He Walked Among Us,' a 'what if...?' variation on Bradbury's 'The Man' from The Illustrated Man. But that's not all! An incredible science fiction bonus: Al Feldstein wrote many stories of people reaching from the beyond to right a wrong, but with this volume, in a twist worthy of the best of EC, he does the same himself! In 1955, the Comics Code rejected the second page of 'You, Rocket' and forced EC to completely rewrite and redraw it. When the original art for that rejected page was rediscovered, one panel was missing. But Feldstein, in a middle-finger gesture to the Code and its heavy-handed censorship, wrote a new panel, restoring 'You, Rocket' to what it was always meant to be. Sadly, he passed away before his final EC writing assignment was published. But here it is now, for the first time anywhere. Justice from beyond the grave. 26 stories in all, most scripted by EC legend Al Feldstein, plus in-depth commentary by EC experts Thommy Burns, Grant Geissman, and Jon Gothold. The Spawn Of Venus And Other Stories is the ultimate EC Wallace Wood science fiction collection.

A propos du livre

À propos des auteurs

Wallace Allan Wood (1927-1981) is widely considered to be America's greatest science fiction cartoonist. But Wood could - and did - do it all: humour (a founding cartoonist of Mad), crime, superheroes, romance, war. He was also a pioneering alternative/underground cartoonist/publisher with his magazine witzend. Among many other honours, he was inducted into the Will Eisner Award Hall of Fame in 1992.

Albert B. Feldstein (1928-2014; Will Eisner Award Hall of Fame, 2003) was a triple-threat writer, artist, and editor, renowned for his work on such titles as Weird Science, Tales From the Crypt, and Mad magazine. He received the Bram Stoker Lifetime Achievement Award in 2011.

Unable to join the military in World War II due to his poor eyesight, Ray Bradbury began publishing science fiction stories.His career as a writer included such notable works as Fahrenheit 451, The Martian Chronicles, and I Sing The Body Electric. Primarily known for his successes in science fiction, Bradbury also worked on various horror and mystery stories, as well as screenplays and television scripts. During his lifetime he received numerous awards, including a Pulitzer in 2007. Bradbury passed away in 2012.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Fantagraphics
• Date d'édition: 2025
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 13: 9798875000393
• Reliure: Relié
• Numéro d'édition: 1
• Nombre de pages: 232
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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