JSMA 2016 Aliens, Monsters, and Madmen Catalog

The Art of EC Comics. Coeta and Donald Barker Exhibitions Gallery, May 14, 2016 - July 10, 2016, Catalog. The exhibition was curated by Ben Saunders, professor, Department of English. Aliens, Monsters, and Madmen celebrates the achievements of the most artistically and politically adventurous American comic-book company of the twentieth century: Bill Gaines’s Entertaining Comics, better known to fans all over the world as EC. Specializing in comic-book versions of popular fiction genres—particularly Crime, Horror, War, and Science Fiction—the company did far more than merely adapt the conventions of those genres to the comics medium. In the case of the now legendary Science Fiction and Horror titles, Weird Science and Tales from the Crypt, the creators at EC actively extended those genre conventions, while simultaneously shaping the imaginations of a subsequent generation of writers and filmmakers, such as Stephen King, George Lucas, John Landis, George Romero, and Steven Spielberg. The Art of EC Comics was sponsored by the Coeta and Donald Barker Changing Exhibitions Endowment. Out Of Print. Condition: Very Fine.