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HOW I MAKE COMICS HC (MR)
(W) KIM DEITCH (A) KIM DEITCH (C) KIM DEITCH
FANTAGRAPHICS
StockID: 172191 SKU: 0226FB0821
How I Make Comics is not just about how Kim Deitch makes comics- but about how comics made him. The book pinwheels between real autobiography and imagined comics history- but it begins in 1952 with a true story of eight-year-old Kim Deitch appearing in the audience of the Howdy Doody Show with eight-year-old Donnie Trump. Following Donnie’s attempt to rig an election among the audience (no kidding!)- Deitch relates a famous newspaper account of a diminutive wife who valiantly defends her equally diminutive husband in court- who just happens to be the inspiration of Harold Gray’s Little Orphan Annie. Periodically- Kim asks his own wife for her critique and advice of the stories he’s told so far- which he takes into account for future tales that include revenge-driven circus performers- fairytale mural painters- sordid comic book lore- comics readers creating real-life superheroes- impossibly old cats issuing supernatural judgments and inhabiting the bodies of humans- culminating in the real-life story of Kim’s mother hitchhiking across country and being picked up by none other than Forrest J. Ackerman- the sci-fi- fantasy- and monster aficionado- who takes her to a convention where she meets a teenaged Ray Bradbury. How I Make Comics is a creatively kaleidoscopic- non-stop exploration of how Deitch’s imagination turns ideas- influences- and irritations into comics in his inimitable style. Snippets of behind-the-scenes explanations of his notes and sketches expand into cascadin
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HOW I MAKE COMICS HC (MR)
(W) KIM DEITCH (A) KIM DEITCH (C) KIM DEITCH
FANTAGRAPHICS
StockID: 172191 SKU: 0226FB0821
How I Make Comics is not just about how Kim Deitch makes comics- but about how comics made him. The book pinwheels between real autobiography and imagined comics history- but it begins in 1952 with a true story of eight-year-old Kim Deitch appearing in the audience of the Howdy Doody Show with eight-year-old Donnie Trump. Following Donnie’s attempt to rig an election among the audience (no kidding!)- Deitch relates a famous newspaper account of a diminutive wife who valiantly defends her equally diminutive husband in court- who just happens to be the inspiration of Harold Gray’s Little Orphan Annie. Periodically- Kim asks his own wife for her critique and advice of the stories he’s told so far- which he takes into account for future tales that include revenge-driven circus performers- fairytale mural painters- sordid comic book lore- comics readers creating real-life superheroes- impossibly old cats issuing supernatural judgments and inhabiting the bodies of humans- culminating in the real-life story of Kim’s mother hitchhiking across country and being picked up by none other than Forrest J. Ackerman- the sci-fi- fantasy- and monster aficionado- who takes her to a convention where she meets a teenaged Ray Bradbury. How I Make Comics is a creatively kaleidoscopic- non-stop exploration of how Deitch’s imagination turns ideas- influences- and irritations into comics in his inimitable style. Snippets of behind-the-scenes explanations of his notes and sketches expand into cascadin
