books by Checker Book Publishing Group     books:       Flash Gordon Volume 6 Alex Raymond Checker Book Publishing Group, 2006 This premium quality book features works by the legand of cartooning: Alex Raymond, who is credited with inspiring generations of artists to try their hand at comic strips, including greats such as Frank Frazette and Al Williamson. Flash Gordon: Volume 6 is presented in stunning full-color in a horizontal page-format that does much to highlight Raymond's gorgeous, sprawling scenery and cinematic layout. Featuring the Flash Gordon strips which ...             Little Nemo In Slumberland HC Volume 2 Limited Edition (Little Nemo in Slumberland)1 review Winsor McCay Checker Book Publishing Group, 2007 Chasing Dreams Give Checker Book Publishing their due: they have mined the Winsor McCay motherload with great diligence. The physical dimensions of their books have often resulted in reprints that are of academic value only, but even that is better than all the gaps that have existed between infrequent and incomplete printings of "Dreams of the Rarebit Fiend" and "Little Nemo." McCay's work is not easy to ...             Alex Raymond's Flash Gordon, Vol. 1 (Alex Raymond's Flash Gordon) (Alex Raymond's Flash Gordon)11 reviews Alex Raymond Checker Book Publishing Group, 2004 Classic adventure The plots are ridiculous and the characters are thin, but that is all inconsequential. Flash Gordon is FUN. It's hard to read Alex Raymond's comic strips without the Queen soundtrack running through my head from the early 1980s movie. And all the principals from that movie are from the comic strip: Dale Arden, the constant damsel-in-distress; Princess Aura, the manipulative yet beautiful ...             Little Nemo In Slumberland HC Volume 1 Limited Edition2 reviews Winsor McCay Checker Book Publishing Group, 2007 Throughout the 20th century, newspaper comic strips have been a staple of American popular culture. Throughout the 20th century, newspaper comic strips have been a staple of American popular culture. Winsor McCay's "Little Nemo In Slumberland" was a color comic strip that debuted in the New York 'Hearld' on October 15, 1905 and achieved an immense popularity almost overnight. It continued to be published until December 1913, when McCay was pressed by his editor to suspend the series in order to ...             Flash Gordon Volume 71 review Alex Raymond Checker Book Publishing Group, 2006 Thus ends the original Flash Gordon From 1934 to 1945, Alex Raymond captivated many a reader of the comics page every Sunday for eleven years. "Flash Gordon" was a strip unlike any other--a blend of science fiction, fantasy, lush location and heroics--the early years of which inspired George Lucas' "Star Wars" films. This is the final volume in Checker's seven-volume reprints of Flash Gordon. Flash, Zarkov and Dale, unable to ...             Milton Caniff's Steve Canyon: 1949 (Steve Canyon Series)1 review Milton Caniff Checker Book Publishing Group, 2004 High adventure and jingoism My reviews for the first two issues of Checker's Steve Canyon series would suggest that my mind is made up in advance in its favour. Actually, the strip has a couple of strikes against it: 1) the hero is a little bland and too iconically good for my tastes and 2) while patriotism may have its place, if it crosses into jingoism it becomes an irritant. However, the sidekick Happy Easter provides a ...             Alex Raymond's Flash Gordon, Vol. 2 (Alex Raymond's Flash Gordon) (Alex Raymond's Flash Gordon)2 reviews Alex Raymond Checker Book Publishing Group, 2004 More classic adventure! The adventure strip on the comics page has not yet quite gone the way of the dodo, but it is definitely in spotted owl territory: rare and threatened constantly by outside forces (such as newspaper economics). Certainly, the few that are left are bland. None can compare the adventure strips of yore, and among these, Flash Gordon is one of the tops. The title character is a near perfect ...             Milton Caniff's Steve Canyon: 1947 (Steve Canyon Series) (Steve Canyon Series)6 reviews Milton Caniff Checker Book Publishing Group, 2004 Caniff was such a master! For years, I have been more familiar with Caniff's "Terry & the Pirates" than with "Steve Canyon". Having bought this volume, though, I can't wait to get more. Milt knew how to tell a story and was an incredible artist. As a cartoonist myself (I draw the strip "Tuttle's") I am envious of the freedom Caniff had. Not just in space, but that he was apparently given more than a month at the ...             Growingold With BC: A Celebration Of Johnny Hart8 reviews Johnny Hart Checker Book Publishing Group, 2007 These are classic and classy cartoons! I love cartoons. Johnny Hart is amoung the best of the modern cartoonist and B.C. is one of the best strips. The history and comments accompanying the cartoons are just a bonus.             Beetle Bailey "The First Years: 1950-1952"3 reviews Mort Walker Checker Book Publishing Group, 2008 overwhelmingly funny What a wonderful book of one of the greatest comic strips!* Beautifully produced on great stock, the book is a gem! Besides the tremendous early strips there is much info on Mort Walker's life. You can't go wrong, especially at Amazon's great price. And like the Peanuts reprints there is more to come. A great Xmas present!!! * Hopefully this book will get great distribution as today's Beetle ...             Sojourn Volume 6: Berserker's Tale (Sojourn) (Sojourn)2 reviews Chuck Dixon, Ian Edgington, ... Checker Book Publishing Group, 2007 I wish it won't be the last one... This is the last paperback from the sojourn serie. I had waited for a long time for it to be released, because the original publisher, Crossgen, disappeared, leaving behind him several wonderful but unfinished series : Ruse, El Cazador, and Sojourn! Thnaks a lot, Checker Book Publishing, to reprint the paperbacks that never got released before! First, the drawing is beautiful! The landscapes ...             Alex Raymond's Flash Gordon, Vol. 5 (Alex Raymond's Flash Gordon) Alex Raymond Checker Book Publishing Group, 2005 Volume five of Flash Gordon includes the stories ?The Ice Kingdom of Mongo?, ?Power Men of Mongo?, and ?The Fall of Ming?, all originally appearing from 1940 to 1941. This quintessential science fiction title has all the trappings of what has now become the standard for modern-day sci-fi. Alex Raymond helped shape the landscape of this genre, and this landmark work is now available in a beautiful and affordable, hardcover edition from Checker ...             Milton Caniff's Steve Canyon 1955 Milton Caniff Checker Book Publishing Group, 2009 This collection of Milton Caniff's groundbreaking comic strip, Steve Canyon, features stories which ran throughout the ninth year of the adventure strip and into early 1956, including "Twice Broken Heart" and "Scarlet Princess."             Alex Raymond's Flash Gordon, Vol. 4 (Alex Raymond's Flash Gordon) (Alex Raymond's Flash Gordon)1 review Alex Raymond Checker Book Publishing Group, 2006 Alex Raymond's Flash Gordon, Vol.4 I purchased Vol.3 and Vol.4 as gifts for my son, who is a professional animator. He was thrilled with both books! He already owned Vol.1 and Vol.2 and stated that the artist's technique and style development was clearly visible as one progresses through the volumes 1-4. Great "study" books for any animation artist.             Milton Caniff's Steve Canyon: 1952 (Milton Caniff's Steve Canyon Series) (Milton Caniff's Steve Canyon Series)1 review Milton Caniff Checker Book Publishing Group, 2006 Day in, day out - for 40 years... ...how does he do it?? One thing I had noticed was a fair amount of rigor in the Steve Canyon stories, whereas I had seen some appallingly poor inconsistencies on other strips. For instance, in a Flash Gordon episode, Flash leaves a dangerous prisoner's cell unlocked so that he can escape and lead Flash to his lair. The operation is a success! The bad guy leads Flash to his lair, though only ...             Dick Tracy: The Collins Casefiles, Vol. 1 (Dick Tracy: the Collins Casefiles (Graphic Novels)) (Dick Tracy: ...4 reviews Max Allan Collins, Chester Gould, ... Checker Book Publishing Group, 2003 not a collins fan, but I totally recommend this book I am not a fan of much of Max Allan Collins' work, but this book is a great exception. The reprints of the first three storylines that Collins wrote are very entertaining and make for an enjoyable read. The first storyline features Angeltop, the popular Flattop's daughter, and the son of the Brow. The next storyline revolves around the Two-Face type villain Haf-and-Haf. Both of these ...             Clive Barker's Tapping the Vein7 reviews Clive Barker, Various Checker Book Publishing Group, 2002 tapping the vein Brillant adaptation of Barkers short tales. The list of ilustrators include P. Craig Russel,Scott Hampton,Klaus janson,D. Cowan,John Bolton,H. Gomez,Stan Woch,Tim Conrad,Bo Hampton and the colaboration in the adaptation of the stories of Steve Niles and Chuck Wagner among others.             Theodor Seuss Geisel: The Early Works, Vol. 1 (The Early Works of Dr. Seuss)1 review Theodor Seuss Geisel Checker Book Publishing Group, 2005 His early works - before kids' books! THE EARLY WORKS OF DR. SEUSS V. 1 by Theodore Seuss Geisel launches a new series of collections which returns to print his earliest works before his children's books became so famous. THE EARLY WORKS OF DR. SEUSS V. ONE could have been featured in our children's issued but is reviewed here for its wider- reaching audience of all ages who have long been Dr. Seuss fans, who would appreciate a ...             Milton Caniff's Steve Canyon: 1950 (Milton Caniff's Steve Canyon Series) (Milton Caniff's Steve Canyon Series)1 review Milton Caniff Checker Book Publishing Group, 2006 You do, ducky! This volume, covering 1950 (the year the Korean War began), is the fourth in the Canyon series, which begins in 1947. I have reviewed each of the three earlier instalments. Much has been said about the cinematic technique in comics but, as Horn's "World Encyclopedia of Comics" (WEC) points out, the comics were there first. Cutting, framing and panning were practiced as early as in the time of ...             Clive Barker's Hellraiser: Collected Best, Vol. 110 reviews Murray, Dwayne McDuffie, ... Checker Book Publishing Group, 2002 beautiful I just loved it.When I first opened it, it wasn't very apelling to me, and I took several days to start reading.The first story I found a little lame, but the art was beautiful.And then I started reading all the others stories.Man, I couln't stop felling that thrill, the stories are so great, especially the last one about the actress.It just gives you that chill in the spine combined with ...              search for books 1950-1952, bailey, barker, beetle, berserker, caniff, canyon, casefiles, celebration, collected, collins, edition, geisel, gordon, graphic, growingold, hellraiser, johnny, limited, little, milton, novels, raymond, series, slumberland, sojourn, tapping, theodor, volume, works books:    Kindle - Amazon's New Wireless Reading Device This is the future of book reading. I have used it and love it! randomly chosen DVD: Death by Misadventure: The Mysterious Life of Bruce Lee leave a comment home  impressum - about us