Confabulation: An Anecdotal Autobiography by Dave Gibbons
An Anecdotal Biography
- Hardcover
256 pages
- Release Date
12 April 2023
Summary
This comprehensive, in-depth, and personal journey through the eyes of one of the world’s most famous comics creators, Dave Gibbons, spans his earliest years copying Superman and Batman comics as a kid, to co-creating the bestselling graphic novel of all-time, Watchmen, and beyond.
Presented alphabetically, with informally written anecdotes that can be read from cover-to-cover or simply dipped into, Gibbons reveals unseen comics’ pitches, life as the first Comics Laureate, an…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781506729053 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1506729053 |
| Author: | Dave Gibbons, Tim Pilcher |
| Publisher: | Dark Horse Comics,U.S. |
| Imprint: | Dark Horse Comics,U.S. |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 256 |
| Release Date: | 12 April 2023 |
| Weight: | 567g |
| Dimensions: | 311mm x 236mm |
About The Author
Dave Gibbons
Dave Gibbons has drawn and written for most comics publishers on both sides of the Atlantic. His work has encompassed DR WHO, SUPERMAN, BATMAN, GREEN LANTERN, CAPTAIN AMERICA, DR STRANGE, THE HULK, PREDATOR, and ALIENS.
WATCHMEN, his collaboration with writer Alan Moore, is the best-selling graphic novel ever published and became a major motion picture.
His autobiographical graphic novel THE ORIGINALS won an Eisner Award in 2005.
His recent work has included KINGSMAN- THE SECRET SERVICE, with Mark Millar, now also a major motion picture.
He co-created GIVE ME LIBERTY and MARTHA WASHINGTON GOES TO WAR with writer Frank Miller.
He was appointed “Comics Laureate” of the UK in 2014, with the brief to develop the use of comics in education. The University of Dundee awarded him an Honorary Doctorate in Comic Arts in 2015.
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