Discover the reason comic creators toil away over ink stained pages, even when circumstances don't reward that hard work.This is what happens when comics meet the real world, coming face to face with politics, war, and big business. Witness creators navigate their passion and careers when faced with the intersection between art and commerce.This stellar collection includes these essays and includes archival images and illustrations:The Cost of Comics: A Hi...

Curated from his writings for Graphic Policy--covering everything from a childhood love of superheroes to an ongoing exploration of more mature comics and geeky experiences--CJ Standal offers deep analysis into one of the hottest media today and the life of those who grew up loving that medium: comics.A former high school English teacher, one who created and ran a graphic novel class, Standal reflects on his experiences designing and teaching such a unique course. Get in on the gro...

The Anderson and Thompson family share a dark past, but their sons Marcus and Hunter don't know it....yet.As the past comes to light--including the answers to a decades-old murder--an intricate revenge scheme forms, involving one of six people belonging to, or affected by, the families.Each chapter follows one of these six people, searching for their pieces to the puzzle.Marcus--a man struggling against the reins of his job and his family.Hunter--a man fight...

Discover the reason comic creators toil away over ink stained pages, even when circumstances don't reward that hard work.This is what happens when comics meet the real world, coming face to face with politics, war, and big business. Witness creators navigate their passion and careers when faced with the intersection between art and commerce.This stellar collection includes these essays:The Cost of Comics: A History of the Comic Book Labor Movement

Curated from his writings for Graphic Policy--covering everything from a childhood love of superheroes to an ongoing exploration of more mature comics and geeky experiences--CJ Standal offers deep analysis into one of the hottest media today and the life of those who grew up loving that medium: comics.A former high school English teacher, one who created and ran a graphic novel class, Standal reflects on his experiences designing and teaching such a unique course. Get in on the gro...

A ghostly killer haunts Chinatown, murdering innocent children. Brenda Amy Edmonton, suspecting a connection between this killer and the Exiled Gods she vowed to stop from invading Earth, is on the case. She must use all the skills she learned as a journalist to find out why this killer is targeting children and stop him. But the local cops, especially Detective Amy Hahn, bristle at Edmonton's interference, even suspecting that she is the real killer. Facing opposition from all angles, eve...

Brenda Amy Edmonton is a disgraced reporter who finds her world turned upside down when she investigates a wave of disappearances with ties to the occult. Before she knows it, Brenda (B.A.E.) ends up in the middle of an ancient war that might destroy the human race.