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All of the Marvels
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A Journey to the Ends of the Biggest Story Ever Told
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Artikel-Nr:
9780735222168
Veröffentl:
2021
Erscheinungsdatum:
12.10.2021
Seiten:
384
Autor:
Douglas Wolk
Gewicht:
634 g
Format:
240x163x33 mm
Sprache:
Englisch
Beschreibung:
Douglas Wolk is the author of the Eisner Award winning Reading Comics and the host of the podcast Voice of Latveria. A National Arts Journalism Program fellow, Wolk has written about comic books, graphic novels, pop music, and technology for The New York Times, Rolling Stone, The Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, The Believer, Slate, and Pitchfork. He lives in Portland, Oregon.
Winner of the 2022 Eisner Award for Best Comics-Related Book
A New York Times Book Review Editor's Choice
The first-ever full reckoning with Marvel Comics interconnected, half-million-page story, a revelatory guide to the epic of epics and to the past sixty years of American culture from a beloved authority on the subject who read all 27,000+ Marvel superhero comics and lived to tell the tale
Thorough, fascinating, and joyfully executed, All of the Marvels is essential reading for fans and scholars alike. G. Willow Wilson (Ms. Marvel)
A revelation, a tour both electrifying in its weird charisma and replenishing in its loving specificity . . . a testament, and a tribute. Jonathan Lethem
Brilliant, eccentric, moving and wholly wonderful. . . . Wolk proves to be the perfect guide for this type of adventure: nimble, learned, funny and sincere. . . . All of the Marvels is magnificently marvelous. Wolk s work will invite many more alliterative superlatives. It deserves them all. Junot Díaz, New York Times Book Review
The superhero comic books that Marvel Comics has published since 1961are the longest continuous, self-contained work of fiction ever created. Thousands of writers and artists have contributed to it. Everyone recognizes its protagonists. Eighteen of the hundred highest-grossing movies of all time are based on parts of it. And Douglas Wolk has read the whole thing.
Wolk sees both into the ever-expanding story and through it, as a prism through which to view the landscape of American culture. In his hands, the mammoth Marvel narrative becomes a fun-house-mirror history of the past sixty years a boisterous, tragicomic, magnificently filigreed epic about power and ethics, set in a world transformed by wonders.
A huge treat for Marvel fans, this book is also a revelation for readers who don t know Doctor Strange from Doctor Doom. Here, truly, are all of the marvels.
A New York Times Book Review Editor's Choice
The first-ever full reckoning with Marvel Comics interconnected, half-million-page story, a revelatory guide to the epic of epics and to the past sixty years of American culture from a beloved authority on the subject who read all 27,000+ Marvel superhero comics and lived to tell the tale
Thorough, fascinating, and joyfully executed, All of the Marvels is essential reading for fans and scholars alike. G. Willow Wilson (Ms. Marvel)
A revelation, a tour both electrifying in its weird charisma and replenishing in its loving specificity . . . a testament, and a tribute. Jonathan Lethem
Brilliant, eccentric, moving and wholly wonderful. . . . Wolk proves to be the perfect guide for this type of adventure: nimble, learned, funny and sincere. . . . All of the Marvels is magnificently marvelous. Wolk s work will invite many more alliterative superlatives. It deserves them all. Junot Díaz, New York Times Book Review
The superhero comic books that Marvel Comics has published since 1961are the longest continuous, self-contained work of fiction ever created. Thousands of writers and artists have contributed to it. Everyone recognizes its protagonists. Eighteen of the hundred highest-grossing movies of all time are based on parts of it. And Douglas Wolk has read the whole thing.
Wolk sees both into the ever-expanding story and through it, as a prism through which to view the landscape of American culture. In his hands, the mammoth Marvel narrative becomes a fun-house-mirror history of the past sixty years a boisterous, tragicomic, magnificently filigreed epic about power and ethics, set in a world transformed by wonders.
A huge treat for Marvel fans, this book is also a revelation for readers who don t know Doctor Strange from Doctor Doom. Here, truly, are all of the marvels.
EPIC QUEST: 27,000 comics is a lot of comics! Wolk makes a good case that taken as a whole the Marvel Comic universe is the great American epic of our time, our real Iliad, Odyssey, Mahabharata, Norse myth cycle, you name itULTIMATE GIFT FOR COMICS FANS: Wolk reports back from the fandom frontlines with charm and expertiseBEYOND THE MCU: Perfect for fans of the Marvel Cinematic Universe wanting more of their favorite charactersPOP CULTURE HISTORY: A surprisingly revealing view of the last 60 years of American society through the prism of comics