Paul Madonnas popular comic, All Over Coffee had been running for twelve years in the San Francisco Chronicle when he was evicted from his longtime home and studio in the Mission District, ground-zero in the tech wars transforming the city.
When a group of misfits discover themselves to be the reincarnations of Catholic saints, they must put aside their differences to battle the fallen angel Michael and his army of doomsday zealots.
The most up-to-date critical guide mapping the history, impact, key critical issues, and seminal texts of the genre, Jewish Comics and Graphic Narratives interrogates what makes a work a "Jewish graphic narrative", and explores the form's diverse facets to orient readers to the richness and complexity of Jewish graphic storytelling.
Former stuntman Sami "e;Sam"e; Nasser is steadily piecing his life back together after narrowly surviving a torturous experience with psychotic gang lord Dominus Smith six months earlier.
The XXX Filmography, 1968-1988 features more than 3,000 A to Z entries, covering the historic, artistic, and technical aspects of adult cinema from those years, including 35mm features, 16mm storefront features, and 8mm loops.
Screening Scarlett Johansson: Gender, Genre, Stardom provides an account of Johansson's persona, work and stardom, extending from her breakout roles in independent cinema, to contemporary blockbusters, to her self-parodying work in science-fiction.
They're hard to miss at grocery stores and newsstands in America-the colorful, heavily illustrated tabloid newspapers with headlines promising shocking, unlikely, and sometimes impossible stories within.
From the peak of high Renaissance to the near end of the Venetian republic, one thing runs through the ages like a festering magical inflammation hidden in the shady corners of the society and sticks its fangs out only in times when it can do most damage.
Superheroes are enjoying a cultural resurgence, dominating the box office and breaking out of specialty comics stores onto the shelves of mainstream retailers.
From his debut in a six-page comic in 1939 to his most recent portrayal by Christian Bale in the blockbuster The Dark Knight Rises, Batman is perhaps the world's most popular superhero.
From entertainment to citizenship reveals how the young use shows like X-factor to comment on how power ought to be used, and how they respond to those pop stars - like Bono and Bob Geldof - who claim to represent them.
The official and definitive guide to the characters of the dynamic, ever-expanding Marvel Universe now updated with more than 1,200 iconic Super Heroes and villains.
Psychedelics for spiritual, therapeutic, and problem-solving use *; Presents practices for safe and successful psychedelic voyages, including the benefits of having a guide and how to be a guide *; Reviews the value of psychedelics for healing and self-discovery as well as how LSD has facilitated scientific and technical problem-solving *; Reveals how microdosing (ultr-low doeses) improve cognitive functioning, emotional balance, and physical stamina *; This year 600,000 people in the U.
Framing Gotham City as a microcosm of a modern-day metropolis, Gotham City Living posits this fictional setting as a hyper-aware archetype, demonstrative of the social, political and cultural tensions felt throughout urban America.
'The life-affirming expression of an artist engaged in living to the full' The Times Smiling in Slow Motion is Derek Jarman's last journal, stretching from May 1991 until a fortnight before his death in February 1994.
"e;I wanted to read a comic about Philippine mythology, but since I couldn't find one that was in depth and contemporary enough that was closer to what I envisioned, I ended up making my ownIt was also my intention to showcase our myths and legends and introduce them to the next generation.
