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| CREEPY 1 Warren Pub Very Fine 1964 Collectors Edition | |
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| Kamandi The Last Boy On Earth Comic Book 14 DC Comics 1974 FINE+ | |
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| The Amazing Spider Man 145 vs the SCORPION from June 1975 in Fine condition | |
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| The Defenders Comic Book 22 Marvel 1975 FINE | |
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| Mad Magazine 200 Close Encounters Parody 1978 FINE+ | |
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| Kamandi The Last Boy On Earth Comic Book 15 DC Comics 1974 VERY FINE | |
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| What If 1989 series 34 very fine comic book | |
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| What If 1989 series 6 very fine comic book | |
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| The Defenders Comic Book 22 Marvel 1975 FINE | |
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| New Universal 1959 One Shot Very Fine to Near Mint | |
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| Mad Magazine 200 Close Encounters Parody 1978 FINE | |
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| Wolverine 1982 limited series 2 very fine comic book | |
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| Marvel Comics Uncanny X Men Comic 143 1981 VERY FINE | |
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| BLACKHAWK 174 Fine DC Comics 1962 | |
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| Flintstones 4 1978 very fine 80 Marvel | |
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| TEEN TITANS 31 Fine To Order is to Destroy Hawk Dove DC Comics 1971 | |
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| The Man From UNCLE 10 Jan 1967 60 Fine | |
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| Worlds Finest 1941 series 203 fine comic book | |
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| Worlds Finest 1941 series 212 fine comic book | |
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| Worlds Unknown 1973 series 6 very fine comic book | |
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| CHAMBER OF DARKNESS 6 Fine Horror Marvel Comics 1970 | |
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| The Defenders Comic Book 23 Marvel 1975 FINE+ | |
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| The Defenders Comic Book 23 Marvel 1975 FINE | |
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| DEFENDERS 12 Very Fine Hulk Marvel Comics 1973 | |
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| CRACKAJACK FUNNIES 27 FINE FINE + | |
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| All Star Western 91 Nov 1956 Gil Kane Infantino FINE | |
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| DEFENDERS 20 Fine Thing x over Hulk Dr Strange Marvel Comics 1974 | |
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| AVENGERS KING SIZE 11967 1st ISSUE FINE | |
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| THOR 235 Fine Hercules Buscema art Mighty Marvel Comics 1975 | |
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| Amazing Spider Man 35 Fine Cond | |
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| FANTASTIC FOUR 136 Fine John Buscema Marvel Comics 1973 | |
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| All Star Comics 61 Fine JSA DC Comic book 1976 | |
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| Charlton Classics Comic Book 7 Hercules 1981 FINE | |
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| FANTASTIC FOUR 139 Fine Marvel Comics 1973 | |
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| Daredevil Comic Book 179 Marvel Comics 1982 FINE | |
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| The Amazing Spider Man 159 vs Doctor Octopus Hammerhead Aug 1976 in Fine | |
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| JULY 1977 AMAZING SPIDER MAN COMICS 170 VERY FINE | |
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| Charlton Classics Comic Book 8 Hercules 1981 FINE | |
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| The Defenders Comic Book 25 Marvel 1975 VERY FINE | |
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| Marvel Double Feature with Capain America Iron Man 6 Very Fine Near Mint | |
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| THE DESTRUCTOR 2 ATLAS COMICS APRIL 1975 FINE VERY FINE | |
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| The Defenders Comic Book 25 Marvel 1975 FINE | |
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| Amazing Spider Man 49 Fine+ Cond | |
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| Conan the Barbarian Lot of 25 Fine to NM Unread Comics | |
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| New Universal 1 in Very Fine to Near Mint Condition | |
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| PHOENIX 3 ATLAS COMICS JUNE 1975 FINE+ | |
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| MARVEL CHILLERS FEATURING TIGRA THE WERE WOMAN 5 JUNE 1976 VERY FINE | |
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| Monsters On the Prowl No 27 Fine | |
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| JOKER 9 Fine+ 1976 Batmans Arch Foe + CATWOMAN | |
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| Daredevil 126 Fine | |
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| PHOENIX 2 ATLAS COMICS MARCH 1975 VERY GOOD FINE | |
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| Jetsons 12 1972 very good fine 50 | |
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| WORLDS FINEST 236 MARCH 1976 FINE VERY FINE | |
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| SUPERBOY 86 DC 1960 1st PETE ROSS appand 4th LEGION Key comic in Fine+ | |
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Can I have a career on animation and comics without earning a degree through self-study?
I will now graduate with a degree on Elementary Education. I am just wondering if I could be an animator with just pure talent. I can't really afford a course on animation. One professor on Fine Arts suggested me to self-study instead of entering a degree in fine arts because he said it is more practical since we could learn from a lot of books.
You may wonder why I took up the course education. I took it because we have a preschool and they wanted me to run it one of these days. But that won't really stop me from producing my own comics. I'm just wondering if how I could do it.
I think a degree in comics or illustration maybe a possibility but animation will be a lot tougher.
Animation is a more technical field and harder to self-study. Not only would you need all the equipment that is necessary to practice but there's a lot of principles and technical knowledge where taking courses would benefit you greatly.
However, for comics, definitely there's many different ways to get into a career without education.
The traditional method would be to make up a portfolio and then send submissions to all the major comic book publishers and hope to get hired as an artist. This method is all about practice, perseverance and hard work. You simply have to keep working at your art skills until your portfolio is top notch and then get your work noticed. It's a hard process and even some of the biggest names in comics had to submit dozens of times before they got their jobs. They would submit to the companies and hit all the major conventions to get pros to critique their work. I have friends who have tried this, they're all amazing artists but none of them have succeeded yet, so it's a tough undertaking for sure.
If you want to do your own book though, you'll need to self-publish.
With the internet, any person can self publish simply by writing a webcomic. Practice and once you get your art skills up, try your hand at writing your own comic, scanning it and then putting it up online. I tend to think the biggest issue with webcomics launching your career is that you have to be very good to begin with, otherwise you're just lost in a sea of other webcomics. You also have to handle everything yourself - from writing, drawing, inking, color (if you want) and typesetting. There's no one there to critique you so you can't really grow as much and it's hard to make money doing webcomics for a living without a big readerbase.
You could also always try to self-publish a real book. But unless you know you're ready, this is a huge financial risk. But a lot of people do it anyway. You can also try to hunt down an indie publisher or a small press comic company or even pitch a book to a traditional publisher if they're willing. If you're interested in doing this, you should go to a comic convention, particularly the ones dealing with Independents, Small Press and Alternative comics. Meet lots of creators and ask some questions to see if it's what you want to do.
Here's also an website you can read if you interested in breaking into the industry :
http://www.soyouwanna.com/SITE/syws/comics/comics.html
Good luck!
The Anti-Hero
Great, iconic heroes we're not short on. They are commonplace and well known. Spider-Man, Captain America, Superman and the like are tried and true, and true blue, and all that good stuff. And that's fine and well, we need that. But somewhere along the way someone decided we also needed a darker type of hero. An 'anti-hero' if you will.
Who the first superhero was is a an issue that will forever be debated, but I think it's fair to say that the first somewhat anti-hero had to be DC Comics' Batman. While he's not quite as much of an anti-hero as, say, marvel comics the punisher, he's certainly no bright and happy-go-lucky ball of sunshine either. He does have morals and limits, unlike many anti-heroes, but he still leans more to the darker side of the spectrum than his contemporaries of the truth and justice ilk.
The previously mentioned marvel comics the punisher is probably a more appropriate example of an anti-hero. He does what he does for justice, but he also does it for revenge. And, unlike Batman, he has no limits. He willingly kills and tortures those he deems worthy of his brand of justice and feels no remorse over it. He is one step away from becoming that which he despises, but yet he plays for the side of the angels and has fans all the same.
So what defines an anti-hero then? Is it just having a darker tone to their character, or a darker outlook on life? Perhaps, but in general they are also loners who don't care about the public or personal perceptions of their behavior or character. They do what they want when they want as long as it meets their goals and feels right. They take no crap from anyone and stand up to everyone, and this has gained them a faithful audience of rebels who are tired of living their lives for other people. They provide a voice and actions their fans can't take in the real world.
In recent times, though, almost everyone is becoming an anti-hero. Wonder Woman now kills when she sees fit, Iron Man imprisons his own peers and creates a clone of Thor who kills a hero, and the list goes on. The dark sides of Superman, Spider-Man and Captain America have been seen, and Reed Richards of the Fantastic Four has been revealed as a selfish prick at times.
There are heroes, and there are anti-heroes, but the line is so blurred these days that one would be hard pressed to tell the difference.
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