Book Review: Bravo For Adventure by Alex Toth
By Chad Derdowski |
Legendary artist and noted curmudgeon Alex Toth never made a secret of his continued frustrations with editorial interference, bad scripts, ...
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Book Review: The Ultimate Woody Allen Film Companion by Jason Bailey
By Gordon S. Miller |
The first thing I thought when I got a hold of this book was that if there was any filmmaker ...
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Book Review: The Amazing Spider-Man: The Ultimate Newspaper Comics Collection Vol. 1, 1979-1981 by Stan Lee and John Romita
By Steve Geise |
Let's face it: daily newspaper comic strips have never been a great way to follow serialized stories. When a story ...
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Book Review: Secret Agent X-9 by Dashiell Hammett & Alex Raymond
By Chad Derdowski |
Everyone loves a dream team. Who can forget Hulk Hogan and “Macho Man” Randy Savage joining forces to form the ...
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Book Review: Star Trek: New Visions Volume 2 by John Byrne
By Gordon S. Miller |
In Star Trek: New Visions, John Byrne tells of the lost missions of the starship Enterprise under the command of ...
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Book Review: The Complete Dick Tracy, Volume 18: 1957-1959 by Chester Gould
By Gordon S. Miller |
As the Library of American Comics and IDW Publishing continue to collect The Complete Dick Tracy by Chester Gould, Volume ...
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Book Review: Tarzan: The Complete Russ Manning Newspaper Strips, Volume Four: 1974-1979
By Gordon S. Miller |
With the Library of America Comics releasing the fourth and final volume in the Eisner Award-winning series, they have published ...
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Book Review: Madeline Kahn: Being the Music, A Life by William V. Madison
By Adam Blair |
There are a handful of uniquely talented performers for whom, once or twice or maybe three times in a career, ...
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Book Review: Bravest Warriors: Things to Doodle and Do!
By Chad Derdowski |
I wasn't really familiar with Emmy Award-winning creator Pendleton Ward's Bravest Warriors when I requested a copy of Bravest Warriors: ...
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Book Review: Usagi Yojimbo: Senso by Stan Sakai
By Gordon S. Miller |
After a two-year break from his long-running Usagi Yojimbo, time spent working on the Eisner-nominated limited series Ronin 47, Stan ...
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Book Review: We’ll Be Here For the Rest of Our Lives: A Swingin’ Showbiz Saga by Paul Shaffer with David Ritz
By Gordon S. Miller |
Paul Shaffer is best known for being the bandleader on David Letterman's late-night talk show, both at NBC and CBS, ...
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Book Review: Punk USA: The Rise and Fall of Lookout Records by Kevin Prested
By Jade Blackmore |
You hear a lot of praise about punk rock in the 1970s, but the ‘90s had a burgeoning punk scene, ...
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Book Review: Crate Digger: An Obsession with Punk Records by Bob Suren
By Greg Barbrick |
In Crate Digger: An Obsession with Punk Rock Records, Bob Suren attaches the story of his life to 50 of ...
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Book Review: Compound Cinematics: Akira Kurosawa and I by Shinobu Hashimoto
By Mat Brewster |
Shinobu Hashimoto wrote the screenplays to Akira Kurosawa's Rashomon, Ikiru and The Seven Samurai. If you are keeping score, that's ...
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Book Review: In the Company of Legends by Joan Kramer and David Heeley
By Gordon S. Miller |
For 25 years, the award-winning filmmaking team of Joan Kramer and David Heeley lived a classic-film fan's dream many times ...
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Book Review: Quentin Tarantino FAQ: Everything Left to Know About the Original Reservoir Dog by Dale Sherman
By Cinema Sentries |
Written by Mary K. Williams Author Dale Sherman's newest FAQ book, he previously wrote Armageddon Films FAQ and KISS FAQ, ...
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Book Review: Chappie: The Art of the Movie by Peter E. Aperlo
By Chad Derdowski |
A few weeks ago, Chappie, writer/director Neill Blomkamp's latest film, arrived in theaters to mixed reviews. A few days ago, ...
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Book Review: The Complete Steve Canyon, Volume 5: 1955-1956 by Milton Caniff
By Gordon S. Miller |
Since January 2012, the Library of American Comics, by way of IDW Publishing, has been releasing collections of Milton Caniff's ...
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Book Review: The Art of the Films: Rise of the Planet of the Apes and Dawn of the Planet of the Apes by Sharon Gosling and Adam Newell
By Gordon S. Miller |
This book takes readers behind the scenes of the first two films of the revived Apes franchise, Rise of the ...
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Book Review: American Titan: Searching For John Wayne by Marc Eliot
By Todd Karella |
John Wayne is one of the most legendary actors to come out of Hollywood, but most of us don't know ...
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Book Review: Have Yourself a Movie Little Christmas by Alonso Duralde
By Greg Barbrick |
Christmas time is a time for many things, and one of the things that I most enjoy are the movies. ...
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Book Review: Wonder Woman: The Complete Newspaper Strips 1944-1945 by William Moulton Marston & Harry G. Peters
By Chad Derdowski |
Superheroes had only been in existence for a handful of years when Wonder Woman burst on the scene in 1940 ...
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Book Review: Modern Sci-Fi Films FAQ by Tom DeMichael
By Cinema Sentries |
Written by Anastasia Klimchynskaya The author purports to make a relatively comprehensive guidebook to sci-fi films since the '70s- with ...
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Book Review: Popeye: Classic Newspaper Comics, Volume Two 1989-1998: A Surprisingly Modern and Adult Take On The Classic Character
By Mat Brewster |
Popeye is not something I've ever cared about. No wait, scratch that, I loved the Robert Altman movie starring Robin ...
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Book Review: Hope: Entertainer of the Century by Richard Zoglin
By Rons Reviews |
In 1993, the legendary entertainer Bob Hope and his wife Delores welcomed TV viewers, and some celebrities of the time, ...
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Book Review: Superman: The Golden Age Sundays (1946-1949)
By Chad Derdowski |
It wasn't long after his 1938 debut in Action Comics #1 that Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster's most famous creation ...
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Book Review: The Complete Dick Tracy, Volume 17: 1956-1957 by Chester Gould
By Gordon S. Miller |
The Library of American Comics and IDW Publishing are publishing The Complete Dick Tracy by Chester Gould. Volume 17 is ...
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Book Review: DC Comics Super-Villains: The Complete Visual History by Daniel Wallace
By Gordon S. Miller |
With its origins in National Allied Publications, which was founded in 1934, DC Comics has had a long and varied ...
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Book Review: Star Trek: Gold Key Archives, Volume 2
By Gordon S. Miller |
On its way to becoming a multimedia franchise, Star Trek first entered the world of comics by way of Gold Key, ...
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Book Review: Showrunners: The Art of Running a TV Show by Tara Bennett
By Cinema Sentries |
Written by Anastasia Klimchynskaya It's been said that we're living in the Golden Age of Television - a fact that's ...
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Book Review: Puck: What Fools These Mortals Be!: Political Cartooning at its Finest
By Mat Brewster |
Political cartoons have been around since the early 1700s though they didn't really come into their own until the later ...
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Book Review: Tarzan: The Complete Russ Manning Newspaper Strips, Volume Three: 1971-1974, Edited by Dean Mullaney
By Gordon S. Miller |
Volume Three of the Library of American Comics' Eisner Award-winning, four-part collection of Russ Manning's complete run of Tarzan newspaper ...
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Book Review: Voltron: From Days of Long Ago, A 30th Anniversary Celebration by Brian Smith
By Chad Derdowski |
I struggled for what felt like an eternity with the opening to this review. It would've been easy to paraphrase ...
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Book Review: Ripley’s Believe It or Not!: Daily Cartoons 1929-1930
By Greg Barbrick |
The new Ripley's Believe It or Not!: Daily Cartoons 1929-1930 from the Library of American Comics is a fond look ...
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Book Review: Lit Up Inside: Selected Lyrics by Van Morrison: You’ve Heard the Songs, Now Read the Lyrics
By Mat Brewster |
That Van Morrison is one of the greatest singer-songwriters in the whole of pop music there is no doubt. That ...
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Book Review: Star Trek: New Visions Volume 1 & Issue #3 by John Byrne
By Gordon S. Miller |
John Byrne and IDW Publishing are presenting the lost missions of the Original Series Enterprise crew in the form of ...
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Book Review: Percy Crosby’s Skippy: Daily Comics 1931-1933: Long-forgotten Magic
By Mat Brewster |
Skippy was created by Percy Crosby and ran from 1923 to 1945. In its time it was hugely popular, highly ...
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Book Review: Owsley and Me: My LSD Family by Rhoney Gissen Stanley with Tom Davis
By Mat Brewster |
Owsley Stanley is not a household name, but he probably should be. He was financier and soundman of the Grateful ...
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Book Review: The Art of John Alvin by Andrea Alvin
By Gordon S. Miller |
I consider myself a serious cinephile, so much so that I don't mind describing myself with the pretentious word "cinephile." ...
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Book Review: The Wizard of Oz FAQ by David J. Hogan: Over the Rainbow and Beyond
By Elizabeth Periale |
The Wizard of Oz is an enduring and endearing classic. Who hasn't seen it, perhaps even multiple times? It made ...
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Book Review: The Art of Greg Spalenka by Greg Spalenka
By Greg Barbrick |
The name Greg Spalenka may or may not be a familiar one to you, but once you have seen his ...
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Book Review: Leonard Maltin’s 2015 Movie Guide: The End of an Era
By Cinema Sentries |
Written by Chris Morgan Leonard Maltin appears in the movie Gremlins 2: The New Batch, lampooning his own negative review ...
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Book Review: Alfred Hitchcock’s America by Murray Pomerance: Not for the Faint of Heart
By Mat Brewster |
In 1939, at the age of 40, Alfred Hitchcock moved to America. He'd had huge success as a filmmaker in ...
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Book Review: Brainquake, Samuel Fuller’s Lost Novel
By Cinema Sentries |
Written by S. Edward Sousa Best known for provocative films such as Shock Corridor, The Crimson Kimono, or The Big ...
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Book Review: The Art of Neil Gaiman by Haley Campbell
By Gordon S. Miller |
I was first introduced to Neil Gaiman through his Sandman comics at a time when most people were introduced to ...
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Rip Kirby: The First Modern Detective: Complete Comic Strips Volume 7, 1962-1964 by John Prentice
By Chad Derdowski |
I can't remember a time when sequential art didn't play a huge role in my life. Whether it was riding ...
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Book Review: Steven Spielberg’s America by Fredrick Wasser
By Davy |
There are tons of books about film and film directors that actually miss the mark, but Fredrick Wasser's Steven Spielberg's ...
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Book Review: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Ultimate Visual History by Andrew Farago
By Gordon S. Miller |
Regardless of what one may think about the vast assortment of various products that have been spun off, it's amazing ...
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Book Review: The Killing: Uncommon Denominator by Karen Dionne
By Cinema Sentries |
Written by Cheryl Shainmark Fans of AMC's The Killing who are jonesing for more are in luck: as Stephen Holder, ...
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Book Review: Overlooked / Underappreciated: 354 Recordings That Demand Your Attention by Greg Prato
By Kit O'Toole |
Writing a book entitled Overlooked/Underappreciated: 354 Recordings That Demand Your Attention is fraught with difficulty. The selections are based purely ...
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