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The Super Hero's Journey: A Graphic Novel (Marvel Arts)
Hardcover
Series: Marvel Arts
General Graphic NovelsArt & Popular CultureSuperheroes
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ISBN13: 9781419769108
Publisher: Harry N. Abrams
Published: Sep 26 2023
Pages: 112
Weight: 1.85
Height: 0.63 Width: 8.66 Depth: 11.02
Language: English
The art of the multi-award-winning, beloved Mutts creator Patrick McDonnell and the greatest super heroes of the Marvel Universe come together in this spectacular and bestselling graphic novel
The Super Hero's Journey is a genuinely moving treatise on the inspiration we can take from others, and an antidote for cynicism. --Alex Ross, Fantastic Four: Full Circle Imbued with the creativity, artwork, and heart of Patrick McDonnell, this graphic novel love letter features the classic Marvel super heroes including the Fantastic Four, the Incredible Hulk, Captain America, Black Panther, and Spider-Man, and is the synthesis of McDonnell's positive, inspirational sensibility and Marvel's blockbuster brand. Using the Marvel Universe as avatars, McDonnell muses on how comics changed his life and inspired him to become a cartoonist, instilling a moral sensibility that he carries through his work and his life. Visually striking, The Super Hero's Journey incorporates panels from classic Marvel comics as a tribute by McDonnell to his heroes--Stan Lee, Jack Kirby, Steve Ditko, and the other creators of the Marvel Universe--alongside inspirational quotes from Eckhart Tolle, Thoreau, and others, presenting an adventure unlike any you have ever read. McDonnell's unexpected conceit flies high and makes a perfect landing. --Publishers Weekly [Starred Review]A love letter to Marvel comics.--NEWSARAMA
A philosophical and spiritual look back at the Silver Age comics heroes that inspired him, McDonnell's weaves his own path to cartooning by intersecting his own art and renditions of Marvel's classic heroes with the original, iconic artwork of their comics, as the likes of Stan Lee, Jack Kirby, and Steve Ditko's works weaves throughout McDonnell's history.--io9
McDonnell's graphic novel is a love letter to both Marvel's legendary creators and the valuable lessons found within their stories. -- Screenrant Inspiration, fun, and joy are to be found a plenty in Patrick McDonnell's all-new The Super Hero's Journey.--AIPT ComicsThe Super Hero's Journey combines McDonnell's iconic cartooning style with work from legendary Marvel artists like Jack Kirby, Steve Ditko, and Don Heck to tell a story about positivity that's as biographical and spiritual as it is action-packed and bombastic.--CBR
A profound and moving reading experience.--FORCES OF GEEK
Combining the magic of Jack Kirby, Stan Lee, and Steve Ditko with the lessons of the Dalai Lama, Patrick McDonnell's metatextual The Super Hero's Journeyis a unique addition to the graphic novel medium.--CONSKIPPER
A gorgeous graphic celebration of Marvel Comics. What makesThe Super Hero's Journeystand out is the way McDonnell marries the biographical elements of Lee, Kirby, and Ditko with his own autobiographical explorations of how their myth-making impacted on his life, as well as how those foundational superheroes resonated within the larger literary canon (hence the Joseph Campbell of it all). -- Boing Boing Also Available:Fantastic Four: Full Circle by Alex Ross
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