Comics At The Movies

Most of today’s generation’s encounters with superheroes, comic book or comic strip characters are at the movies or on TV.

Few read comic books regularly and know of the ‘true’ origins and characters of comic strips and books, not the gender swapped, politically correct and altered story-line versions prevalent today.

Comic strip and book characters have populated movies almost since the dawn of the media.

Comics At The Movies by James Chapman and published by Reaktion Books, examines comic strip and comic book movies from Flash Gordon to The Avengers: Endgame.

The oversize, hardbound book delves deeply into the subject of primarily American comic strips and comic books over the decades. Both are reflections of their times.

Mass entertainment and the hope of making a buck contributed to the rise of comic strips and comic books and since both were and are so popular it is only natural that movies would adapt them to the Silver Screen

Comic strips and comic books movies also mirror the times when they were made.

Politics, society, war, crime, changing norms, technology and other changes and rebirths appear in movies. Comics strips and books deal with the same subjects. They and movies are connected at the hip.

This book looks at different trends, characters, events and much more in both print and on the screen. It’s more than just comics at the movies it’s about how society has changed, morphed and survived over the years.

It contains lots of information on the history of comic strips and comic books as well as the movie adaptions.

Comics At The Movies is a well-rounded, thought-out and executed piece of work that provides a welcome critical look at each medium.

Romans 6:14For sin shall not have dominion over you: for ye are not under the law, but under grace.