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Great Comics Artists Series Critical assessments of a comics creator's achievement and artistry. Recent titles include: Comics of Chris Ware: Drawing is a Way of Thinking. Series editor: M. Thomas Inge, Blackwell Professor of the Humanities at Randolph-Macon College. Alan Moore: Comics as Performance, Fiction as Scalpel Carl Barks and the Disney Comic Book: Unmasking the Myth of Modernity The Comics of Chris Ware: Drawing Is a Way of Thinking Father of the Comic Strip: Rodolphe Töpffer Garry Trudeau: Doonesbury and the Aesthetics of Satire God of Comics: Osamu Tezuka and the Creation of Post-World War II Manga Grant Morrison: Combining the Worlds of Contemporary Comics Hand of Fire: The Comics Art of Jack Kirby Lynda Barry: Girlhood through the Looking Glass We Go Pogo: Walt Kelly, Politics, and American Satire	Download the BOOKFRIENDS newsletter BOOKFRIENDS JUKE JOINT Membership Party Join us on Facebook See our authors READ OUR BLOG On the Horizon: Scotty and Elvis When Elvis Presley first showed up at Sam Phillips’s Memphis-based Sun Records studio, he was a shy teenager in search of a sound. Phillips invited a local guitarist named Scotty Moore to stand in. Scotty listened carefully to the young singer and immediately realized that Elvis had something special. Along with bass player Bill Black, the trio recorded an old blues number called “That’s All (read more...)