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Cerebus the Barbarian Messiah
Essays on the Epic Graphic Satire of Dave Sim and Gerhard
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2014
In December 1977, struggling Canadian comic book artist Dave Sim self-published the first issue of Cerebus the Aardvark, a Conan the Barbarian satire featuring a foul-tempered, sword-wielding creature trapped in a human world. Over the next 26 years, Sim, and later collaborator Gerhard, produced an...
by Carl Rollyson
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2016
Some critics rank biographers just above serial murderers. The author of this book, a self-described member of the Samuel Johnson school, doesn’t share this view. An account of a life, he believes, should adhere to the truth as the biographer sees it, not to the sentiments of others. This memoir...
High School Prom
Marketing, Morals and the American Teen
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2012
The prom has been a fixture in the life of American teenagers for as long as high schools have existed. Both encapsulating and magnifying the drama of adolescence, proms have been transformed from modest tea dances to costly extravaganzas supporting apparel and cosmetic makers, limousine services,...
Publishing Romance
The History of an Industry, 1940s to the Present
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2016
Romance novels have attracted considerable attention since their mass market debut in 1939, yet seldom has the industry itself been analyzed. Founded in 1949, Harlequin quickly gained market domination with their contemporary romances. Other publishers countered with historical romances, leading to...
The Creation of the Cowboy Hero
Fiction, Film and Fact
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2014
As business interests have commercialized the American West and publishers and studios have created compelling imagery, the expectations of readers and moviegoers have influenced perceptions of the cowboy as a hero. This book describes the evolution of the cowboy hero as a mythic persona created by...
by Sean Ferrier-Watson
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2017
Ghost stories have played a prominent role in childhood. Circulated around playgrounds and whispered in slumber parties, their history in American literature is little known and seldom discussed by scholars. This book explores the fascinating origins and development of these tales, focusing on the...
The Writer's Guide to Self-Editing
Essential Tips for Online and Print Publication
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2019
Over the years, technological advances have given publishers the ability to produce more books and online publications with greater speed. This new efficiency, however, has increased editors' workloads, limiting the amount of detailed editorial feedback that they can provide authors. In turn, writers...
The Last Time I Dreamed About the War
Essays on the Life and Writing of W.D. Ehrhart
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2014
This is a collection of essays on the life and writing of W.D. Ehrhart, poet, essayist, memoirist and teacher. The twenty contributors—scholars, publishers, poets—are from the U.S., France, Britain, the Netherlands, Austria, India and Japan. Some are Vietnam or Iraq war veterans. The collection...
The Age of Dimes and Pulps
A History of Sensationalist Literature, 1830-1960
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2018
From the dime novels of the Civil War era to the pulp magazines of the early 20th century to modern paperbacks, lurid fiction has provided thrilling escapism for the masses. Cranking out formulaic stories of melodrama, crime and mild erotica—often by uncredited authors focused more on volume than...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2018
This companion to Victorian popular fiction includes more than 300 cross-referenced entries on works written for the British mass market. Biographical sketches cover the writers and their publishers, the topics that concerned them and the genres they helped to establish or refine. Entries introduce...
Hornet 33
Memoir of a Combat Helicopter Pilot in Vietnam
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2016
Combat helicopter pilots in the Vietnam War flew each mission facing the possibility of imminent death. Begun as a series of attempted letters to the Department of Veterans Affairs, this compelling memoir of an aircraft commander in the 116th Assault Helicopter Company—“The Hornets”—relates...
Quinn Martin, Producer
A Behind-the-Scenes History of QM Productions and Its Founder
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2015
“Quinn Martin was the most innovative and most creative of his kind. He was a man in touch with the future, far more than the times. His characters were not stereotypical characters. His production methods were not stereotypical either. He was unique in a number of ways. That’s why his shows did...
Guadalcanal, Tarawa and Beyond
A Mud Marine's Memoir of the Pacific Island War
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2014
Chronicling the growth of a recruit from boot camp at Parris Island, South Carolina, to a seasoned troop leader, this memoir also relates the experiences of the 200 marines in A Company, First Battalion, Second Marines, as they engaged in island warfare in the South Pacific at Guadalcanal, Tarawa, Saipan and Tinian.
The Very Witching Time of Night
Dark Alleys of Classic Horror Cinema
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2014
The book covers unusual and often surprising areas of horror film history: (1) The harrowingly tragic life of Dracula’s leading lady, Helen Chandler, as intimately remembered by her sister-in-law. (2) John Barrymore’s 1931 horror vehicles Svengali and The Mad Genius, and their rejection by the...