304 pages of full-color comics. Every page of Setting the Standard is restored to bring Toth’s unsurpassed graphics and page designs into full clarity, making this an essential edition for anyone with an appreciation of the art of graphic storytelling. “I came to prefer them for the quieter, more credible, natural human equations they dealt with
| Title | : | Setting the Standard: Comics by Alex Toth 1952-1954 |
| Author | : | Fantagraphics |
| Rating | : | 4.70 (849 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1606994085 |
| Format Type | : | Paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 416Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-8-8 |
| Language | : | English |
304 pages of full-color comics. Every page of Setting the Standard is restored to bring Toth’s unsurpassed graphics and page designs into full clarity, making this an essential edition for anyone with an appreciation of the art of graphic storytelling. “I came to prefer them for the quieter, more credible, natural human equations they dealt with emotions, subtleties of gesture, expression, attitude.”
To explain his take on comics, Toth would quote such proverbs as “To add to truth distracts from it,” or “The beauty of the simple thing.” He employed these axioms “to make clear how universal this pursuit of truth, clarity, simplicity, economy, in all the arts and many other disciplines really is and has been for 6,000 years.” These and other observations regarding the comic book form will be collected in an essay based on Toth’s published and unpublished letters and interviews. As his generation was the first to grow up with the new 10-cent full-color pamphlets, he came to the medium with a fresh eye, and enough talent and discipline to graphically strip it down its to its bare essentials. Responding to the endless criticism of editor Sheldon Mayer and production chief Sol Harrison, the young artist strove toward a technique free of “showoff surface tricks, clutter, and distracting picture elements.” Simply put, he learned “how to tell a
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And when he was matched to a worthy script, such as the noirish crime tale, “The Crushed Gardenia,” the results were something to behold. Largely unknown to most comics readers, he’s recognized by knowledgeable fans and his fellow artists as one of the most skilled and innovative talents ever to ply the medium. Particularly revelatory are the romance stories, in which the human-scaled, if formulaic and melodramatic, plotlines played to Toth’s strengths: economic yet expressive illustration, artful design, and incisive characterization. Toth would go on to produce even more impressive work in subsequent decades, but this is where he began to leave the rest of the profession in the dust. From Booklist Five years after his death, comic-book artist Alex Toth is finally getting his due. Working in the popular genres of the era—crime, h
Greg Sadowski is a writer, editor and designer (B. Krigstein, Supermen!, Four Color Fear, Setting the Standard: Alex Toth; Action! Mystery! Thrills!) living in Washington State.
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