Zero Hour And Other Stories (The Fantagraphics EC Comics

Zero Hour And Other Stories (The Fantagraphics EC Comics Artists Library, 10)

In this collection of EC sci-fi comics (including adaptations of Ray Bradbury stories), Jack Kamenâ€™s wholesome-as-apple-pie art style is used to subversive ends.
With his wholesome approach, Jack Kamen stood out amongst the grandguignol grunge, gritty realism, or futuristic dazzle of his fellow EC cartoonists â€• but his brilliant editor/writer Al Feldstein found a way to exploit the surface innocence of his style with seemingly nice stories of romance gone horribly wrong, or future fantasies with an unexpectedly brutal twist. And nowhere did Kamenâ€™s clean-but-lush graphics work better than in the stories he created for ECâ€™s science-fiction comics. The title story, â€œZero Hourâ€ (one of three in this book adapted from works by Ray Bradbury), set in a Spielbergian suburban idyll, is particularly well served by Kamenâ€™s surface innocence; â€œA Lesson in Anatomyâ€ works similar magic, with its Mayberry-esque setting veering into alien-invasion terror. If there was any devil in Kamen, it came out in his loving depiction of the female face and form, and you could see why his hapless heroes were often fatally entranced with them â€• as in â€œPunishment Without Crimeâ€ (Bradbury again), â€œHe Who Waits!â€ (a scientist finds an extreme way of rejoining his eight-inch-tall inamorata), and â€œMiscalculation!â€ (the lucky recipient of a package from the future literally brews his own harem); even the supercomputer in â€œOnly Human!â€ proves vulnerable to a beautiful womanâ€™s charms. Zero Hour And Other Stories contains 22 classic EC yarns â€• plus the usual all-new biographical, historical, and critical essays that have made Fantagraphicsâ€™ EC Library series the ultimate version of these classics. Black & white
Country USA
Brand Fantagraphics Books
Manufacturer Fantagraphics Books
Binding Hardcover
ReleaseDate 2014-02-15
UnitCount 1
EANs 9781606997048

Country	USA
Brand	Fantagraphics Books
Manufacturer	Fantagraphics Books
Binding	Hardcover
ReleaseDate	2014-02-15
UnitCount	1
EANs	9781606997048

Zero Hour And Other Stories (The Fantagraphics EC Comics Artists Library, 10)

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