Silver Age of Comic Book Art

Schumer's pop-art tribute to the great mainstream artists working in the field of sequential art during the 1960s. Showcasing his combination of insightful prose & eye-popping graphic design, this book details the achievements of an array of comics creators & the characters they delineated during that turbulent decade. Set between the dawning of the Space Age & the twilight of the Age of Aquarius, this magnificent volume reveals just what made these comics -- & the talented craftsmen who illustrated them -- so innovative & ground-breaking. Captures the mind-altering essence of those days, an era super-charged with creativity & change, when the lines between reality & fantasy blurred in the 4-color panels of American super-hero comics.Schumer, Arlen is the author of 'Silver Age of Comic Book Art', published 2005 under ISBN 9780756796488 and ISBN 0756796482.