ISBN: 9780810996182

Thirty-one years later, it's finally seeing print and it's a doozy, featuring work from luminaries like Art Spiegelman, Joost Swarte, Jack Kirby, and Will Eisner. There are also comics wr… More...

Thirty-one years later, it's finally seeing print and it's a doozy, featuring work from luminaries like Art Spiegelman, Joost Swarte, Jack Kirby, and Will Eisner. There are also comics written by Harlan Ellison and William S. Burroughs, and illustrations from such unlikely suspects as Tom Wolfe and Federico Fellini. The Nile on eBay   FREE SHIPPING UK WIDE   The Someday Funnies by Michel Choquette "The Someday Funnies" began as a small project by Michel Choquette, a young and ambitious "National Lampoon" editor, in the 1970s. However, the project took on a life of its own and seven years later Choquette found himself $300,000 in debt and with no publishing partner. This title highlights this infamous body of work. FORMATHardcover LANGUAGEEnglish CONDITIONBrand New Publisher Description The Someday Funnies is the long-awaited collection of comic strips created in the early 1970s by world-famous artists and writers such as C. C. Beck, Rene Goscinny, Harvey Kurtzman, Jack Kirby, Moebius, Art Spiegelman, and Gahan Wilson. What started out as a special insert for Rolling Stone took on a life--and mythology--of its own as writer/editor Michel Choquette traveled the world, commissioning this visual chronicle of the 1960s, only to find himself without a publishing partner or the financial support to continue. Forty years later, readers finally get to experience this legendary anthology as Choquette celebrates the birth, death, and resurrection of The Someday Funnies--129 previously unpublished strips by 169 writers and artists.Praise for The Someday Funnies:"In 1970, National Lampoon contributor Choquette was asked by Jann Wenner to edit a special comics insert for Rolling Stone that would allow prominent cartoonists and writers to survey the 1960s. That collection, "The Someday Funnies," transformed over the next few years into a never-published book featuring the work of 169 writers and artists, and then--when Wenner pulled the plug--into the great lost project of comics history, a "Pet Sounds" of mainstream, underground, and European sensibilities existing only in Choquette's Montreal storage space. Thirty-one years later, it's finally seeing print and it's a doozy, featuring work from luminaries like Art Spiegelman, Joost Swarte, Jack Kirby, and Will Eisner. There are also comics written by Harlan Ellison and William S. Burroughs, and illustrations from such unlikely suspects as Tom Wolfe and Federico Fellini. What sticks with a reader now is the way the '60s had already begun to curdle in the memory even for those who had just lived them; more than one of these comics posits wild-eyed alternate histories of the '60s, including the book's kicker, a great Captain Marvel strip that ties the decade's woes to Billy Batson's mid-century silence. Though the collection is, by its nature, a mixed bag, it's a priceless time capsule of comics history, presented handsomely by Abrams in the large tabloid size Choquette always envisioned."--Publishers Weekly, starred review "[A] treasure trove of sixties cartooning finally hits print. . . . This graphic time capsule reveals that "the sixties" still define modern America's contradictory heart." --Village Voice "Where else can you see previously unpublished works by great artists like Kirby, Bode, and Beck, who have since passed on to that great bull pen in the sky?" --Cleveland Plain Dealer "As a portrait of the state of the medium of comics in the early 1970s in the U.S. and Europe, a yeasty blend of old and new that was poised to make a jump to the forefront of artistic endeavors in the twenty-first century, The Someday Funnies is a five-star publication all the way." --Tom Flinn, ICV2.com "Choquette was . . . reaching out beyond the insular underground comics circles, and filling in a bigger picture of where the world's collective head was at as the temper of the times changed. . . . Because Choquette recruited globally, The Someday Funnies avoids the usual American baby-boomer mythology, in which the sixties were born in Greenwich Village, nurtured at Berkeley, and killed at Altamont. Instead, the book reports just as much on the youth revolution in Europe, from the perspective of people who'd just lived through it." --Onion's A.V. Club "There's page after page after page of unique and exciting comics art in this incredible book. . . . Forty years after it was first organized, the legendary Someday Funnies has finally been published at long last. It [wa]s worth the wait. We never really knew what we were missing." --Comics Bulletin "The Someday Funnies is a wonderfully colorful, fascinating book with an incredible backstory." --Oregonian "There's no mistaking its masterful value for any comics collector. One of the medium's great, whispered-of projects is finally a reality, and it's a dream come true for everyone involved--especially its lucky readers." --Omnivoracious Notes 40 years in the making, the long-awaited collection of comics featuring contributions from Tom Wolfe, Jack Kirby, Frank Zappa, William Burroughs and Will Eisner. Author Biography Michel Choquette is a writer and filmmaker who had a successful career as a comedian before becoming one of the first contributing editors of National Lampoon. He now teaches creative writing and screenwriting at Concordia University in Montreal. Details ISBN0810996189 Author Michel Choquette Short Title SOMEDAY FUNNIES Language English ISBN-10 0810996189 ISBN-13 9780810996182 Media Book Format Hardcover Year 2011 Publication Date 2011-11-01 Place of Publication New York Country of Publication United States Imprint Abrams DEWEY 741.5 Publisher Abrams Comicarts Pages 215 Illustrations Yes Audience Age 0-22 Edited by Michel Choquette Audience General/Trade NZ Release Date 2011-11-01 US Release Date 2011-11-01 UK Release Date 2011-11-01 AU Release Date 2011-11-30 We've got thisAt The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it.With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! 30 DAY RETURN POLICYNo questions asked, 30 day returns! FREE DELIVERYNo matter where you are in the UK, delivery is free. SECURE PAYMENTPeace of mind by paying through PayPal and eBay Buyer Protection TheNile_Item_ID:36350036; , Neu, Festpreisangebot, [LT: FixedPrice], ISBN-13: 9780810996182, Type: NA, Publication Name: NA, Publication Year: 2011, Format: Hardcover, Language: English, Book Title: The Someday Funnies, Item Height: 400mm, Genre: Comics, Topic: Literary Theory, Item Width: 302mm, Item Weight: 2260g, Number of Pages: 216 Pages, Abrams<