Legendary for what he has done on the page and infamous for what he has said off it, Howard Chaykin ranks among the superstars of modern comics. In The Art of HowardChaykin, go behind the scenes with the creator whose pioneering works include American Flagg! and Black Kiss, and experience the stories of his life as only he can tell them. Filled with no-holds-barred perspective from his longtime friends and colleagues, and featuring an extensive selection of artwork from throughout his care...

ADVANCE SOLICIT The infamous, hardboiled-erotica series is collected for the first time in a deluxe hardcover omnibus featuring new material. It’s been a long, long time…one last time. Collecting for the first time, every stop along the way on HOWARD CHAYKIN’s transgressively groundbreaking trail, the BLACK KISS OMNIBUS collects the legendary 1988 series, its 2012 sequel BLACK KISS 2, plus the BLACK KISS XXXMAS IN JULY SPECIAL, and, created just for this volume, the all-new 28-page BLACK K...

Bruce Wayne jagt Batgirl und Robin! In dieser alternativen Comic-Welt wachen Batgirl und Robin über das Gotham City der frühen Sechzigerjahre und kämpfen als dynamisches Duo gegen Kriminelle und korrupte Polizisten. Bruce Wayne wurde nach der Ermordung seiner Eltern hingegen einer der besten Cops der Stadt! Nun soll er für Commissioner Gordon die beiden Kostümierten zur Strecke bringen, die das Gesetz in die eigenen Hände genommen haben – und die wie alle anderen keine Ahnung haben, was fü...

An all-new original graphic novel, modernizing the formative first days of this super-hero icon that defined pop culture! Billionaire weapons manufacturer Tony Stark lived a life of wealth and privilege. That all changed when an on-site visit to a war-torn nation went horribly wrong, leaving Tony gravely injured in the hands of dangerous extremists - one a former friend. When asked to build a weapon, Tony instead constructed a mechanized suit of armor and escaped. But the horrors he left b...

MINISERIES FINALE Who lives? Who dies? Whose (frequently doubled) voucher gets lost in the mail? HOWARD CHAYKIN's three-volume journey through comic book history concludes with one last look at how fandom—joyful, toxic, proprietary, take your pick—paradigm shifted from captive audience to creative architect in no time flat. And sure, some of it didn't happen. But it's all true.

Cruce con “Miedo encarnado”. Los Nuevos Vengadores se unen a la gran batalla que tiene lugar en las calles de Nueva York. Ellos tienen que vérselas con el verdadero rostro del miedo. En ese contexto, ¿quién se unirá al equipo por primera vez en su vida?

Written and illustrated by legendary and award-winning comic book creator Howard Chaykin, The Shadow: Blood & Judgment is collected for the first time since 1991!!! Chaykin's dynamic, visceral style added a new dimension to The Shadow of the 1980's!The laugh had vanished...the mocking, sinister laugh that signaled doom for the petty souls whose wrongdoing stained the world. It was gone, lost in the night that echoed it. Now, one by one, his friends and operatives are being ruthlessly murde...

Digging deeper into the sordid, seedy, and always-entertaining lives of the men and women who built the comic book business, volume two of HOWARD CHAYKIN's acclaimed comic à clef tells the story of those who pushed the boundaries of the lowest common denominator—at their own peril—and those happy enough to ride the waves others created. Along the way there's exploitation, Blaxploitation, custom toilet paper, death at the dinner table, and plenty more, as fans turn pro and pros turn bitter....

HEY KIDS! COMICS! takes its cue from nearly a century of turbulence and triumph, despair and drama in the comics racket. Artists and writers, con men and clowns, ganefs and gangsters create the foundations of today 's biggest entertainment business or at least the tail that wags the dog. Some of it really happened, and the names have been changed to protect the innocent and guilty Éalthough in the end, everyone was guilty of something. Collects HEY KIDS! COMICS! #1-5

It all begins with a generation of artists who view their life's work as dismal failures and a waste of that life…in service to a medium that refuses to die, grinding its way through generation after generation…until it collides with creatives who can't even begin to imagine why anyone would ever want to do anything else. This is the history of comic books, alongside the misbegotten midwife whose growth, whose refusal to truly grow, serves as its decades-long and distorted mirror… Fandom. ...

Collects The Shadow: Midnight in Moscow #1-6! It's New Year's, 1950... the end of a tumultuous decade. Lamont Cranston, the man that the world and the underworld know all too well as The Shadow, has had enough. It's time for the mysterious nemesis of crime to hang up his cloak, his slouch hat, and his twin .45s, and retire from public life. But despite this momentous decision, Margo Lane and the rest of The Shadow's agents fear that mankind, teetering on the brink of nuclear Armageddon, ma...

An America sundered. An America enraged. An America terrified. An America shattered by greed and racism, violence and fear, nihilism and tragedy and that 's when everything really goes to hell. Collects THE DIVIDED STATES OF HYSTERIA #1-6