Kamen's Kalamity And Other Stories
Publisher: Fantagraphics
Date of Publication: 9 April 2024
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Product details:
ISBN13: | 9781683969181 |
ISBN10: | 1683969189 |
Binding: | Hardback |
No. of pages: | 248 pages |
Size: | 262x185 mm |
Language: | English |
Illustrations: | 248 |
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Jack Kamen's stories for The Vault of Horror, Tales From the Crypt, and The Haunt of Fear favoured unnerving creepiness over gruesome shock. With his penchant for deft delineations of scheming women, jealous husbands, murderous love triangles, and not-so-innocent children, Kamen's pen laid down a precise, sure line that brought each story's shock ending into sharp relief. This volume features 27 Kamen favorites, drawn at the peak of powers, including: 'Kamen's Kalamity,' our title story, featuring the 'true' origin story of the artist himself! When the pressures of drawing his stories, dealing with his editors, and pleasing his wife and kids become too much, comic book artist Jack Kamen loses it, and that night, when the moon is full... 'How Green Was My Alley,' the cautionary tale of a travelling salesman who spends every other week at home with his wife. And every other other week at his other home with his other wife! In a grisly finale, echoing the EC shocker 'Foul Play,' Kamen le