Encyclopedia of Comic Books and Graphic Novels

E EARTH X. Published from 1999 through 2003, the Earth X trilogy proved to be both a reinterpretation of the Marvel Universe and ...

158 EARTH X has mutated after being exposed to the mysterious Terrigen Mists, and the mutation has caused humans to cease reprod ...

EC COMICS 159 have important roles, but second-string or even third-string characters play pivotal parts in this saga, including ...

160 EDUCATIONAL COMICS racism, war, political corruption, and child neglect with established authority fi gures generally servin ...

EDUCATIONAL COMICS 161 Th ese include local and global history comics, “true fact” comics, illustrated adaptations of novels and ...

162 EDUCATIONAL COMICS Wo r l d H i s t o r y. (After M. C. Gaines’s death in 1947, his son William Gaines inherited the company ...

EDUCATIONAL COMICS 163 In China, the Communist victory in 1949 led to a big increase in propaganda comic books (small booklets w ...

164 EDUCATIONAL COMICS Underground Comix In the late 1960s and early 1970s, counter-culture artists reinvented the comic book as ...

EDUCATIONAL COMICS 165 in partnership with Ohmsha in Japan, has been publishing a series of manga titles about statistics, physi ...

166 EDUCATIONAL COMICS Hill & Wang publisher Th omas LeBien, for example, began publishing nonfi ction graphic novels in 200 ...

EDUCATIONAL COMICS 167 combining caricature, illustration, maps, and diagrams to clearly communicate the details of such tragedi ...

168 EDUCATIONAL COMICS comics, World Comics teaches activists how to write and draw their own locally-based, comics-format wall- ...

EDUCATIONAL COMICS 169 Th e Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History’s web-comic “Th e Secret in the Cellar” uses a motion ...

170 EIGHTBALL EIGHTBALL is a critically acclaimed comic book series written and drawn by Daniel Clowes. Launched by Fantagraphic ...

EISNER AWARDS 171 a number of comics personalities, from Stan Lee (“Dr. Infi nity”) to Art Spiegelman (“Gummo Bubbleman”). His f ...

172 EISNER, WILL EISNER, WILL (1917–2005). Wil- liam Erwin Eisner was a comic book creator, graphic novelist, teacher, entrepren ...

ELFQUEST 173 works of comics art theory: Comics and Sequential Art (1985), Graphic Storytelling and Visual Narrative (1996), and ...

174 ELLIS, WARREN United States, and thus represents one of the most successful American underground comic titles of all time. S ...

ELSEWORLDS 175 Ellis has long been a proponent of utilizing the Internet to not only market his work, but also to interact with ...

176 ELSEWORLDS eventually ending up as a yearly feature for the book. By creating an explanation for the existence of disparate ...