Encyclopedia of Comic Books and Graphic Novels

ENNIS, GARTH 177 Come, which shows an aging Justice League recalled to a violent, modern world that they hardly recognize. DC re ...

178 EPILEPTIC Preacher) and his ongoing series Th e Boys (2006–). Hitman features ex-marine turned contract killer Tommy Monagha ...

EPILEPTIC 179 in which he often rewrites the history of his family, only to let his parents question his narrative decisions in ...

180 ESPIONAGE cope with Jean-Christophe’s epilepsy. Similar to the use of folklore and mythology, David B. seeks refuge in art i ...

ESPIONAGE 181 genres of comics including detective, crime fi g h t e r , war, and superhero. Specifi cally, war and superhero co ...

182 ESPIONAGE Captain America’s origins begin with fi fth-column espionage, as Nazi infi ltrators killed the doctor who develope ...

ESPIONAGE 183 Espionage Logistics Directorate”. Th e acronym is a play on those used to represent covert organizations such as S ...

184 ESPIONAGE organization, Cobra Command, led by the aptly named Cobra Commander. Cobra’s mission involved the standard genre t ...

EUROPEAN COMICS 185 Mines), and Dr. Henry Jekyll. Th ey would take on antagonists such as Moriarty or Fu Manchu. As the comics t ...

186 EUROPEAN COMICS (about 10,000 titles). Th ese publications did not look like today’s comics because text and pictures remain ...

EUROPEAN COMICS 187 this remarkable evolution, because after 1945 there was an even greater increase in indigenous comics creati ...

188 EUROPEAN COMICS protests were raised against this medium. Consequently, some governments began to regulate comics: for examp ...

EUROPEAN COMICS 189 decades, culminating in the creation of comics museums (in Brussels, Angoulême, Lisbon, Groningen, Lucca). I ...

190 EUROPEAN COMICS the American comic book industry and were responsible for some outstanding comic book miniseries such as Wat ...

EUROPEAN COMICS 191 100,000 titles produced in Europe in the last three decades, only a minority has been recognized as proper p ...

192 EX MACHINA Prokupek, Tomas. “Czech Comics.” International Journal of Comic Art 1(2) (Fall 1999): 86–97; Sabin, Roger. Adult ...

EX MACHINA 193 and electoral success in the next mayoral election (he runs as an independent). Th e series tracks Hundred’s atte ...

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F FAMOUS FUNNIES. Th e birth of the modern American comic book industry begins with the publication of Famous Funnies , the fi r ...

196 FAMOUS FUNNIES He secured a deal with Gulf Oil to create a tabloid-sized comic book giveaway that would be available at its ...