Best Selling Books by Howard Chaykin

Collected interviews with the cartoonist best known for creating the groundbreaking sci-fi satire American Flagg!

Written and illustrated by legendary and award-winning comic book creator Howard Chaykin, The Shadow: Blood & Judgment is collected for the first time since 1991!!! Chaykin''s dynamic, visceral style added a new dimension to The Shadow of the 1980''s! The laugh had vanished...the mocking, sinister laugh that signaled doom for the petty souls whose wrongdoing stained the world. It was gone, lost in the night that echoed it. Now, one by one, his friends and operatives are being ruthlessly murdered. Someone is trying to draw him out. Thirty-five years later, it is time for him to return. The laugh is here again. The Shadow is back. God help the guilty. - See more at: http://www.comixology.com/The-Shadow-Blood-Judgement/digital-comic/31302#sthash.prSncoVD.dpuf Written and illustrated by legendary and awardwinning comic book creator Howard Chaykin, The Shadow: Blood & Judgment is collected for the first time since 1991! Chaykin''s dynamic, visceral style added a new dimension to The Shadow of the 1980''s! The laugh had vanished...the mocking, sinister laugh that signaled doom for the petty souls whose wrongdoing stained the world. It was gone, lost in the night that echoed it. Now, one by one, his friends and operatives are being ruthlessly murdered. Someone is trying to draw him out. Thirty-five years later, it is time for him to return. The laugh is here again. The Shadow is back. God help the guilty.

Golden-Age superhero, the Escapist--master of elusion, champion of liberation--was conceived in the fictional world of the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay. This comic book anthology contains a variety of the Escapist''s exploits, and details on the history of the character. Master of elusion and foe of tyranny, from his secret headquarters beneath the majestic Empire Theater, the Escapist and his associates have been defeating the crooked and coming to the aid of those in need for generations. From obstructing the endeavors of post-war Nazis, to protecting the innocent from an attack on the World''s Fair, to infiltrating behind enemy lines to free prisoners of war in Vietnam, and even to stymieing a hypnotizing saxophone player, the Escapist does not suffer oppression of any kind. A multitude of the Escapist''s pulse-pounding adventures are collected here along with details of the publishing history of Joe Kavalier and Sam Clay''s creation. This volume also contains a story torn straight from the pages of The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay: written by Michael Chabon, the tale of the mysterious Mr. Machine Gun. Also featured, from another Kavalier & Clay classic publication, Weird Date, are two stories of romance, crime, and mystery. This collection features comic book creators of legend, including Will Eisner (The Spirit), Eduardo Barreto (Batman), Jeffrey Brown (Star Wars: Darth Vader and Son), Howard Chaykin (American Flagg, Star Wars), Paul Gulacy (Master of Kung Fu), Jeff Parker (Bucko), Marv Wolfman (The Tomb of Dracula), Thomas Yeates (Prince Valiant), and so many more! Containing a total of twenty-two tales, along with three never-before-collected stories, this volume also contains five never-before-published stories, as well as a robust gallery of pinups celebrating the world of the Escapist from artists including Gabriel Bá (The Umbrella Academy, Casanova) Brian Bolland (Judge Dredd), Bill Morrison (The Simpsons), Fábio Moon (Serenity, Casanova), Tim Sale (Batman, Superman), and many more!

A jazz musician and ex-con framed for the murder of his wife and daughter plummets into a nightmare of sex and death in the seedy underbelly of Los Angeles.

Threatened by ginned-up moral outrage, the money-minting luster of a decade ago long gone, four-color micro-moguls shoot themselves in the foot to hold on to what’s left. Meanwhile, fandom takes hold hard in a generation of young enthusiasts—but with so much of what they love gone with the wind, what’s left for them?

With the soon-to-be self-styled greatest generation grudgingly called to war, it’s high time for those back on the home front to step up and fill in for the fighting men overseas. But when the work needs writers and artists, and the only bodies available are unambitious halfwit hacks and talentless, overeager fans…will this be what kills the comic book cash cow?

MINISERIES PREMIERE A generation of artists ashamed of their careers has come to this, scratching out a living entertaining children who wonder why anyone would want to do anything else. With the birth of the comics industry comes the afterbirth, a shadow twin that will sustain and occasionally sabotage it for generations to come… Fandom.

Bruce Wayne jagt Batgirl und Robin! In dieser alternativen Comic-Welt wachen Batgirl und Robin über das Gotham City der frühen Sechzigerjahre und kämpfen als dynamisches Duo gegen Kriminelle und korrupte Polizisten. Bruce Wayne wurde nach der Ermordung seiner Eltern hingegen einer der besten Cops der Stadt! Nun soll er für Commissioner Gordon die beiden Kostümierten zur Strecke bringen, die das Gesetz in die eigenen Hände genommen haben – und die wie alle anderen keine Ahnung haben, was für finstere Zeiten ihnen bevorstehen... Dieser Band enthält die komplette Elseworlds-Saga Batman: Thrillkiller, geschrieben von Comic-Titan Howard Chaykin (BLACK KISS) und mit dem malerischen Artwork von Dan Brereton (DC PREMIUM 16: SUPERMAN & BATMAN – WORLD''S FINEST).

More trials and triumphs but mostly trials drawn from the way things really happened as a business built on cheap paper and cheaper ideas became the foundation of the entertainment world''s modern-day ATM.

The innocent seduced and the credulous corrupted. Stories inspired by the way it really was, in a business where con men and liars stole everything they could from perfectly willing victims, selling second-rate stories of low-grade morality to an audience they saw as suckers, while living lives founded on greed and exploitation. And that, kids, is comics for you.

The 1980s births a completely unanticipated commercial and artistic renaissance… …but Editorial has notes. And fans who only yesterday were sneaking time on the school office mimeograph become today’s commercial comic book darlings. WTF?

It all begins with a generation of artists who view their life’s work as dismal failures and a waste of that life…in service to a medium that refuses to die, grinding its way through generation after generation…until it collides with creatives who can’t even begin to imagine why anyone would ever want to do anything else. This is the history of comic books, alongside the misbegotten midwife whose growth, whose refusal to truly grow, serves as its decades-long and distorted mirror… Fandom. Collects HEY KIDS! COMICS!, VOL. 3: THE SCHLOCK OF THE NEW #1-6

After years of being kept at bay, a new generation finally scales the castle walls, only to discover the hacks have beaten a hasty retreat, leaving nothing behind them but nostalgia. The newcomers arrive with a bill of rights. Management hands them a bill of goods.

Secret Love. My Confession. Crime Does Not Pay. And you thought they were just comic book titles, huh? Art imitates life in an industry with more than its share of drama and deception, as a tale built around real-life happenings in the comic book biz continues to unfold though "art" may be pushing it.

For the first time ever, Batman’s Elseworlds tales are featured in a new graphic novel collection. In Elseworlds, heroes are taken from their usual settings and put into strange times and places-some that have existed, or might have existed; and others that can’t, couldn’t or shouldn’t exist. The result: stories that make characters who are as familiar as yesterday seem as fresh as tomorrow. Featuring Batman as a holy priest, Harry Houdini alongside the Dark Knight, Dr. Wayne reanimating a Frankenstein-like Bat-Man, Batman as a Green Lantern, a supernatural Bat-Man fighting the evil wizard known as the Dark Joker, a future Robin fighting off an alien invasion, and other tales! Collects BATMAN: HOLY TERROR, BATMAN: THE BLUE, THE GREY, AND THE BAT, ROBIN 3000 #1-2, BATMAN/DARK JOKER: THE WILD, BATMAN/HOUDINI: THE DEVIL’S WORKSHOP, BATMAN: CASTLE OF THE BAT, BATMAN: IN DARKEST KNIGHT and BATMAN: DARK ALLEGIANCES!

DCÕs iconic superheroes meet some of Hanna-BarberaÕs best-loved characters in the most unexpected stories of the year, collected here in DC MEETS HANNA-BARBERA. When Booster Gold tries to rescue future Earth from an alien invasion, he travels back in time and finds help from none other than Fred Flintstone and Barney Rubble! In an unexplored sector of space, Green Lantern and Space Ghost join forces to help an alien race facing disaster! Adam Strange lands on an unfamiliar Earth, and only Jonny Quest, Hadji, Dr. Quest and Race Bannon can help him get home! And when Amanda Waller needs to rescue the Suicide Squad, she reaches out to the newest inmates in Belle Reve: animal rock band the Banana Splits! All this plus unexpected takes on Hanna-Barbera characters the Jetsons, Top Cat, Ruff ÕnÕ Reddy and Snagglepuss in a collection featuring some of comicsÕ top creators, among them Howard Chaykin, Mark Russell, Jeff Parker, James Tynion IV, Steve Lieber, Tony Bedard, Marc Andreyko, Ariel Olivetti, Amanda Conner, Jimmy Palmiotti, Dan DiDio and Howard Porter! Collects BOOSTER GOLD/THE FLINTSTONES SPECIAL #1, GREEN LANTERN/SPACE GHOST SPECIAL #1, ADAM STRANGE/FUTURE QUEST SPECIAL #1 and SUICIDE SQUAD/BANANA SPLITS SPECIAL #1.

Betrayal. Triumph. Sudden death. No talent, but blind rage will do. More adventures and intrigue drawn from real-world stories of the comic book business And if you want to know which are the closest to the truth, start with the most inexcusable people, exhibiting the lowest, most deplorable behaviorÉ and work your way up from there.

The Chinatown noir keeps flipping the genre on its head, as Edison Hark comes face to face with a killer—and more suffering, lust, and soul than he’d ever imagine in Chinatown. “A smart, classic noir drenched in style and history." – JAMES TYNION IV (Batman)

An America sundered. An America enraged. An America terrified. An America shattered by greed and racism, violence and fear, nihilism and tragedy and that''s when everything really goes to hell. Collects THE DIVIDED STATES OF HYSTERIA #1-6

"SERIES PREMIERE HEY KIDS! COMICS! takes its cue from nearly a century of turbulence and triumph, despair and drama in the comic book racket. Artists and writers, con men and clowns, ganefs and gangsters, create the foundations of today’s biggest entertainment business—or at least the tail that wags the dog. Some of it really happened, and the names have been changed to protect the innocent and guilty... ... although in the end, everyone was guilty of something. COMPARISON TITLES If you like the crazy behind-the-curtain candor of The Wolf of Wall Street and Sean Howe’s Marvel Comics: The Untold Story, you’ll love HEY KIDS! COMICS!"

MINISERIES FINALE Who lives? Who dies? Whose (frequently doubled) voucher gets lost in the mail?HOWARD CHAYKIN’s three-volume journey through comic book history concludes with one last look at how fandom—joyful, toxic, proprietary, take your pick—paradigm shifted from captive audience to creative architect in no time flat.And sure, some of it didn’t happen. But it’s all true.

New blood makes waves on and off the page, as acknowledged giants learn just how worthless that acknowledgment is. And don''t worry about management. They''ve still got plenty of screwing over talent to keep them busy.

Strippers and college boys on Swing Street Bebop and bad cops in Harlem. Tangled memory and tainted love as the night draws closer to dawn and blood reckoning.

Junkie poets and poetic drunks, hipster hoodlums and a stripper with a secret. Joel Breakstone is in way over his headÉ and the night is still young.

On the fringes of the Rann-Thanagar War, G''Nort of the Green Lantern Corps must find an arbiter to broker a peace deal! What neutral part does he find? None other than Guy Gardner! Wait...Guy? Peace? Neutral?

Digging deeper into the sordid, seedy, and always-entertaining lives of the men and women who built the comic book business, volume two of HOWARD CHAYKIN’s acclaimed comic à clef tells the story of those who pushed the boundaries of the lowest common denominator—at their own peril—and those happy enough to ride the waves others created. Along the way there’s exploitation, Blaxploitation, custom toilet paper, death at the dinner table, and plenty more, as fans turn pro and pros turn bitter. Collects HEY KIDS! COMICS!, VOL. II: PROPHETS & LOSS #1-6

**2012 Eisner and Harvey Award winner!** In this jam-packed issue of _DHP_, Mike Richardson interviews artist extraordinaire and _Shaolin Cowboy_ creator Geof Darrow! Plus, delve into the alternate history of Howard Chaykin''s _Custer_, enjoy the return of Steve Moncuse''s _Fish Police_, and read new comics by Patrick Alexander! * Howard Chaykin returns to the pages of _DHP_ with _Custer_! * Michael Avon Oeming''s _The_ _Victories_,Shannon Wheeler''s _Villain House_, and Caitl�_n R. Kiernan''s _Alabaster_ continue! Seriously, this is comics'' best kept secret trove of great comics."Comic Book Resources

RECUPERAMOS EL GRAN CLÁSICO DE HOWARD CHAYKIN.Sexo, crimen y pasión. Una película comprometedora. Dos rubias peligrosas. Un terrible chantaje y mucho sexo. Recuperamos en una nueva edición de lujo la gran obra de Howard Chaykin, el revolucionario creador de AMERICAN FLAGG!! Todo un clásico de los cómics para adultos lleno de acción, intriga y sexo.

This volume of The Escapist collects issues five and six of the popular, Eisner Award winning quarterly series and features the late Will Eisner''s return to the Spirit, in a crossover tale with the Escapist! Fans of classic comics will not want to miss what became Eisner''s last comics work, completed just two weeks before the death of the legendary comics godfather. Also in this volume is the comics writing debut of award-winning author and Guggenheim fellow Chris Offutt, illustrated by Thomas Yeates. Dan Best and Eddie Campbell contribute a fully painted story from the 1939 World''s Fair in Empire City, and 2004 Russ Manning Award winner Eric Wight brings a polemic story from writer Jason Hall to life. Among the other notable contributors are Howard Chaykin, Paul Grist, Shawn Martinbrough, David Hahn, Roy Thomas, Matt Wagner and indie stalwarts Jeffrey Brown and Jason!