The Martian Monster and Other Stories

The Martian Monster and Other Stories - The Fantagraphics EC Artists' Library

First Fantagraphics Books edition

Hardback (17 Jan 2019)

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Publisher's Synopsis

When Jack Kamen's wholesome approach to comics storytelling conspired with Al Feldstein's delightfully deceptive scripts, the result was futuristic fantasies and high-tech romances that veer suddenly out of control. Kamen delights in bringing Feldstein's wicked imagination to graphic life in these mostly-pulpy stories, but it's not all sex and self-deception. There's surprisingly sharp social and political commentary, as well, with stories that foreshadow the threat of climate change as well as contemporary philosophical debates about the perils and morality of artificial intelligence.

About the Publisher

Fantagraphics Books

Fantagraphics Books

Fantagraphics Books has been a leading proponent of comics as a legitimate form of art and literature since it began publishing the critical trade magazine The Comics Journal in 1976. By the early 1980s, Fantagraphics found itself at the forefront of the burgeoning movement to establish comics as a medium as eloquent and expressive as the more established popular arts of film, literature, poetry, et al. Fantagraphics quickly established a reputation as an advocacy publisher that specialized in seeking out and publishing the kind of innovative work that traditional comics corporations who dealt almost exclusively in super-heroes and fantasy either didn?t know existed or wouldn?t touch: serious, dramatic, historical, journalistic, political, and satirical work by a new generation of alternative cartoonists as well as many artists who gained prominence as part of the seminal underground comix movement of the '60s. Fantagraphics has since gained an international reputation for its literate and audacious editorial standards and its exacting production values.

Book information

ISBN: 9781683961680
Publisher: Fantagraphics
Imprint: Fantagraphics Books
Pub date:
Edition: First Fantagraphics Books edition
DEWEY: 741.5973
DEWEY edition: 23
Language: English
Number of pages: xiv, 161
Weight: 690g
Height: 188mm
Width: 261mm
Spine width: 19mm