THE SUPER HERO'S JOURNEY

The second book in Abrams’ Marvel Arts line, featuring the art of the multi-award-winning, bestselling beloved Mutts creator Patrick McDonnell and the greatest super heroes of the Marvel Universe. It's a mash-up of McDonnell's work with classic Kirby and Ditko panels and pages, "weaving the work of Jack Kirby and other Marvel artists together... to create a remarkable view into the wonder he felt as a young reader first experiencing these classic comics." - Alex Ross “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 "McDonnell’s unexpected conceit flies high and makes a perfect landing.” — Publishers Weekly [Starred Review] "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 “The 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