Best Of Archie Comics Book 4

Author:   Archie Superstars ,  Archie Superstars
Publisher:   Archie Comic Publications
ISBN:  

9781619889422


Pages:   416
Publication Date:   09 September 2014
Recommended Age:   From 9 to 12 years
Format:   Paperback
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The Best of Archie Comics Book 4 the newest volume of Archie's all-time bestselling graphic novel series. This title features the greatest stories starring Archie and his friends from Archie's seven decades of comics excellence! This fun full-color collection of more all-time favorite Archie and friends stories, lovingly hand-selected and introduced by Archie creators, editors, and historians from 200,000 pages of material, is a must-have for any Archie fan and fans of the comics medium.

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Author:   Archie Superstars ,  Archie Superstars
Publisher:   Archie Comic Publications
Imprint:   Archie Comic Publications
Dimensions:   Width: 13.30cm , Height: 3.60cm , Length: 19.10cm
Weight:   0.278kg
ISBN:  

9781619889422


ISBN 10:   1619889420
Pages:   416
Publication Date:   09 September 2014
Recommended Age:   From 9 to 12 years
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   To order   Availability explained
Stock availability from the supplier is unknown. We will order it for you and ship this item to you once it is received by us.

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Archie Andrews and his pals are a timeless and yet timely reflection of American society. The Best Of Archie Comics Book 4 presents a parade of more than 60 years of changing fashions and drawing styles .yet little of the humor in the stories is tethered to any particular era. In Photo Finish by Bill Vigoda (1947), Veronica has a look more based on glamour illustrations of the 30s, while in Dance Crazy by Frank Doyle, Harry Lucey and Marty Epp (1966) she has a more familiar look.But the jokes could switch eras with no loss of humor. Lucey, by the way, is a much loved cartoonist whose influence on Jaime Hernandez you can see in his limber, lively shapes and expressions. In 1958's Say it With Flour by Dan DeCarlo, the quintessential Archie artist, Archie and Jughead mess up a cooking contest in a way that would seem just as funny today, although the final gag would probably be deemed insensitive to disabled veterans and pirates. In modern times, shown in Pick Me Up by Kathleen Webb, Dan DeCarlo and Henry Scarpelli (2000) and The Clod of Thunder by Tom DeFalco, Fernando Ruiz, Rich Koslowski, John Workman and Digilore Studios (2013), modern coloring, welcome multi-cultural references and Betty and Veronica having their say over who gets to show them attention update the situations, but the essential characters are the same. As Mark Waid writes in one of the intros, Archie and his cast of characters have, over the years, been refined to a razor-edge of comedy and characterization by the dozens of writers and artists who ve contributed to his canon. --Heidi McDonald, PUBLISHERS WEEKLY


Archie Andrews and his pals are a timeless and yet timely reflection of American society. The Best Of Archie Comics Book 4 presents a parade of more than 60 years of changing fashions and drawing styles….yet little of the humor in the stories is tethered to any particular era. In “Photo Finish” by Bill Vigoda (1947), Veronica has a look more based on glamour illustrations of the 30s, while in “Dance Crazy” by Frank Doyle, Harry Lucey and Marty Epp (1966) she has a more familiar look.But the jokes could switch eras with no loss of humor. Lucey, by the way, is a much loved cartoonist whose influence on Jaime Hernandez you can see in his limber, lively shapes and expressions. In 1958's “Say it With Flour” by Dan DeCarlo, the quintessential Archie artist, Archie and Jughead mess up a cooking contest in a way that would seem just as funny today, although the final gag would probably be deemed insensitive to disabled veterans and pirates. In modern times, shown in “Pick Me Up” by Kathleen Webb, Dan DeCarlo and Henry Scarpelli (2000) and “The Clod of Thunder” by Tom DeFalco, Fernando Ruiz, Rich Koslowski, John Workman and Digilore Studios (2013), modern coloring, welcome multi-cultural references and Betty and Veronica having their say over who gets to show them attention update the situations, but the essential characters are the same. As Mark Waid writes in one of the intros, “Archie and his cast of characters have, over the years, been refined to a razor-edge of comedy and characterization by the dozens of writers and artists who’ve contributed to his canon.” --Heidi McDonald, PUBLISHERS WEEKLY


Archie Andrews and his pals are a timeless and yet timely reflection of American society. The Best Of Archie Comics Book 4 presents a parade of more than 60 years of changing fashions and drawing styles....yet little of the humor in the stories is tethered to any particular era. In Photo Finish by Bill Vigoda (1947), Veronica has a look more based on glamour illustrations of the 30s, while in Dance Crazy by Frank Doyle, Harry Lucey and Marty Epp (1966) she has a more familiar look.But the jokes could switch eras with no loss of humor. Lucey, by the way, is a much loved cartoonist whose influence on Jaime Hernandez you can see in his limber, lively shapes and expressions. In 1958's Say it With Flour by Dan DeCarlo, the quintessential Archie artist, Archie and Jughead mess up a cooking contest in a way that would seem just as funny today, although the final gag would probably be deemed insensitive to disabled veterans and pirates. In modern times, shown in Pick Me Up by Kathleen Webb, Dan DeCarlo and Henry Scarpelli (2000) and The Clod of Thunder by Tom DeFalco, Fernando Ruiz, Rich Koslowski, John Workman and Digilore Studios (2013), modern coloring, welcome multi-cultural references and Betty and Veronica having their say over who gets to show them attention update the situations, but the essential characters are the same. As Mark Waid writes in one of the intros, Archie and his cast of characters have, over the years, been refined to a razor-edge of comedy and characterization by the dozens of writers and artists who've contributed to his canon. --Heidi McDonald, PUBLISHERS WEEKLY


The Best of Archie paperbacks are some of the best things the company's done in recent memory -- Comics Alliance It's pretty great. -- Comics Alliance


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THE ARCHIE SUPERSTARS are the impressive line-up of talented writers and artists who have brought Archie, his friends and his world to life for more than 70 years, from legends such as Dan DeCarlo, Frank Doyle, Harry Lucey, and Bob Montana to recent greats like Dan Parent and Fernando Ruiz, and many more!

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