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Ellis, Warren. Do Anything: Thoughts on comics and things. Rantoul: Avatar, 2010. Added by: joachim (25/03/2026, 09:42) Last edited by: joachim (25/03/2026, 09:47) |
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| Resource type: Book Language: en: English Published ID no. (ISBN etc.): 9781592911059 BibTeX citation key: Ellis2010a Email resource to friend View all bibliographic details  |
Categories: General Keywords: Collection of essays, Ellis. Warren, United Kingdom, USA Creators: Ellis Publisher: Avatar (Rantoul) |
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There are many ways to look at comics. In this book, we see the medium through the hazy android eyes of Jack Kirby (actually the stolen and repurposed head of the missing Philip K. Dick, robot, which Mr. Ellis confesses to swiping off the back of a plane), taking a rattling ghost-train ride through the history of comics. David Bowie, the CIA, mad architects, Will Eisner, Frank Zappa, Tintin, the designer of Skylab, a train station in Paris, Arthur C. Clarke, the circus, the Black Panther Party and William S. Burroughs: all of these things are connected by Jack Kirby, all part of the secret history of comics, and all illustrating the special nature of the medium as the place where you can do anything. The majority of this book originally appeared online in my Do anything column at bleedingcool.com 2009. This short volume was originally serialised as weekly columns in twenty-six chapters. This print edition does not have twenty-six chapters. In the process of cleaning it up for print, I've combined serial sections into chapters where I felt it appropriate and more conducive to the reading experience. Added by: joachim Last edited by: joachim |