Encyclopedia of Comic Books and Graphic Novels

398 MAUS: A SURVIVOR’S TALE in-jokes about convention hyjinx. Some of these appear in Matt’s work; Peepshow , fi rst published i ...

MAUS: A SURVIVOR’S TALE 399 in Spiegelman and wife Françoise Mouly’s underground magazine RAW. Th e shifts in perspective and st ...

400 McCLOUD, SCOTT Artie also refuses to portray his father as a heroic, selfl ess survivor of disaster; rather, he fi ghts with ...

McFARLANE, TODD 401 that, in addition to providing a defi nition, history and vocabulary for understanding comics, attempts to e ...

402 McFARLANE, TODD McFarlane took a hiatus from Marvel in August, 1991. By early 1992, he left Marvel altogether to form Image ...

McKEAN, DAVID (DAVE) 403 Selected Bibliography: Khoury, George et al. Image Comics: Th e Road to Independence. TwoMorrows Publis ...

404 MEMOIR/SLICE-OF-LIFE THEMES McKean has worked as a graphic designer for corporate clients including Sony. He won the Alph- A ...

MEMOIR/SLICE-OF-LIFE THEMES 405 body sweater/nightshirt, and his Charlie Brown bald hair style (used by the poor to combat lice) ...

406 MEMOIR/SLICE-OF-LIFE THEMES Th ough much of Crumb’s early output was episodic in Zap , Hup , We i r d o , and other venues, ...

MEMOIR/SLICE-OF-LIFE THEMES 407 structure. He sees comics as all-American art form, and like a documentary fi lmmaker he takes r ...

408 MEMOIR/SLICE-OF-LIFE THEMES DeMatteis expresses “a disarming conviction of man’s potential and the beauty to be found in lif ...

MEMOIR/SLICE-OF-LIFE THEMES 409 envision, but Talbot has a larger agenda. He is seeking to make a visual codex to the work of Ca ...

410 MEMOIR/SLICE-OF-LIFE THEMES unsettling metamorphoses. In Art School Confi dential , Clowes ridicules the pretentious world o ...

MEMOIR/SLICE-OF-LIFE THEMES 411 he feels anything but super. Seagle sees the massive gulf between puny human experi- ence and th ...

412 MERCHANDISING AND LICENSING memoir/slice of life comic has achieved is to make graphic novels the full partner of other cont ...

MERCHANDISING AND LICENSING 413 in syndication through the 1970s and 1980s and spawned a feature fi lm in 1966. In the 1970s, th ...

414 MERCHANDISING AND LICENSING the 21st century brought considerable new licensing income to Marvel, and in 2005 Marvel Studios ...

MIGNOLA, MIKE 415 his popular Spawn character for a feature fi lm and an adult animated series. McFarlane also developed his own ...

416 MILESTONE COMICS While Hellboy can certainly be considered the most signifi cant creation of Mignola’s career, he has also b ...

MILLAR, MARK 417 Rozum and Arvell Jones, Shadow Cabinet by Washington and Leon, and Xombi by John Rozum and Cowan. When the whol ...