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It all begins with a generation of artists who view their life's work as dismal failures and a waste of that life...in service to a medium that refuses to die, grinding its way through generation after generation...until it collides with creatives who can't even begin to imagine why anyone would ever want to do anything else. This is the history of comic books, alongside the misbegotten midwife whose growth, whose refusal to truly grow, serves...

Graphically experimental, narratively daring and visually explosive, HowardChaykinâEUR(TM)s Time2 was a work ahead of its time. Now, to commemorate theprojectâEUR(TM)s 35th anniversary with the arrival of its long-awaitedconclusion...it still is. In addition to remastered versions of thelong-out-of-print first two volumes, The Epiphany and The Satisfaction of BlackMariah, the Time2 Omnibus completes the trilogy with the new 48-page volumeHallo...

Digging deeper into the sordid, seedy, and always entertaining lives of the men and women who built the comic book business, volume two of Howard Chaykin's acclaimed Comics a clef tells the story of those who pushed the boundaries of the lowest common denominator - at their peril - and those happy enough to ride the waves others created. Along the way there's exploitation, Blaxploitation, custom toilet paper, death at the dinner table and plen...

HEY KIDS! COMICS! takes its cue from nearly a century of turbulence and triumph, despair and drama in the comics racket. Artists and writers, conmen and clowns, ganefs and gangsters, create the foundations of today’s biggest entertainment business—or at least the tail that wags the dog. Some of it really happened, and the names have been changed to protect the innocent and guilty... ...although in the end, everyone was guilty of something. Col...

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Kentucky occupied an unusual position with regard to slavery during the Civil War as well as after. Since the state never seceded, the emancipation proclamation did not free the majority of Kentucky's slaves, in fact, Kentucky and Delaware were the only two states where legal slavery still existed when the thirteenth amendment was adopted by Congress. Despite its unique position, no historian before has attempted to tell the experience of blac...

Kentucky occupied an unusual position with regard to slavery during the Civil War as well as after. Since the state never seceded, the emancipation proclamation did not free the majority of Kentucky's slaves, in fact, Kentucky and Delaware were the only two states where legal slavery still existed when the thirteenth amendment was adopted by Congress. Despite its unique position, no historian before has attempted to tell the experience of blac...

Marking the 50th anniversary of the Spanish Civil War, this is the story of the Canadians who went to fight in that epic conflict.

A collection of essays vital to the understanding of "The Peaceable Kingdom", revealed here as not always peaceable, often mysterious, deadly serious, still good-hearted, dutiful, the good twin to the United States. Topics include: Canada in Vietnam, Quebec Films, Political Leadership, Great Lakes Ecology, Quebec and the United States, Canadian Elections and the American Media, Topographical Poetry and the "Quebec Model", Canada U.S. Defense P...