NORTHLAND COMMUNITY & TECHNICAL COLLEGE TRF Campus Library – New Materials

January 5, 2018

AUDIO-VISUAL MATERIALS 113.8 Ex, DVD

Examined life (88 minutes) Examined Life takes philosophy into the hustle and bustle of the everyday. The "rock star" philosophers of our time take "walks" through places that hold special resonance for them and their ideas.

305.552 Re, DVD

Requiem for the American dream (73 minutes) In his final long-form documentary interview, Noam Chomsky exposes with searing clarity the forces and policies behind the coordinated campaign to concentrate wealth and power in the hands of a select few.

791.43 Im, DVD

The immortal life of Henrietta Lacks (90 minutes) An African-American woman becomes an unwitting pioneer for medical breakthroughs when her cells are used to create the first immortal human cell line in the early 1950s.

NON-FICTION BOOKS

294.3926 Hi

Hirose, Takafumi Shin Buddhism: an introduction Without using unnecessary Buddhist jargon, this book introduces the essence of Shin Buddhism in plain everyday English, for Buddhists and non-Buddhists alike.

364.15 De Delisle, Guy Hostage (graphic novel) In the middle of the night in 1997, Doctors Without Borders administrator Christophe André was kidnapped by armed men and taken away to an unknown destination in the Caucasus region. Close to twenty years later, award-winning cartoonist Guy Delisle recounts André's harrowing experience in Hostage, a book that attests to the power of one man's determination in the face of a hopeless situation.

741.5 Al Edited by Eric L. Berlatsky Alan Moore: conversations British comics writer Alan Moore has a reputation for equal parts brilliance and eccentricity. Living hermit-like in the same Midlands town for his entire life, he supposedly refuses contact with the outside world while creating his strange, dense comics, fiction, and performance art.

741.5 Ch Edited by M. Thomas Inge

Charles M. Schulz: conversations A collection of interviews that reflect on the life and work of cartoonist Charles M. Schulz.

741.5 Ch Edited by Dominick Grace and Eric Hoffman

Chester Brown: conversations The early 1980s saw a revolution in mainstream comics--in subject matter, artistic integrity, and creators' rights--as new methods of publishing and distribution broadened the possibilities. Among those artists utilizing these new methods, Chester Brown quickly developed a cult following due to the undeniable quality and originality of his Yummy Fur (1983-1994).

741.5 Ch Edited by Jean Braithwaite

Chris Ware: conversations Editor Jean Braithwaite compiles interviews displaying the comic author Chris Ware's erudition and his quirky self-deprecation. The interviews span Ware's career from 1993 to 2015, including several of the earliest talks reprinted from magazines now extremely difficult to locate.

741.5 Ch Edited by Maureen Furniss

Chuck Jones: conversations "I dream about being Bugs Bunny, but when I wake up, I'm Daffy Duck." Chuck Jones: Conversations brings to life the legendary Warner Bros. artist who helped shape the history of American animation, defining our impressions of such characters as Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, Road Runner, Wile E. Coyote, and Pepé le Pew. These interviews span more than thirty years, beginning with a 1968 conversation in which Jones shares the spotlight with science fiction giant Ray Bradbury.

741.5 Da Edited by Ken Parille and Isaac Cates

Daniel Clowes: conversations Daniel Clowes emerged from the "alternative comics" boom of the 1980s as one of the most significant cartoonists and most distinctive voices in the development of the graphic novel. In this collection of interviews reaching from 1988 to 2009, the cartoonist discusses his earliest experiences reading superhero comics, his time at the Pratt Institute, his groundbreaking comics career, and his screenplays for Ghost World (nominated for an Academy Award) and Art School Confidential.

741.5 Da Edited by Eric Hoffman and Dominick Grace

Dave Sim: conversations In 1977, Dave Sim began to self-publish Cerebus, one of the earliest and most significant independent comics, which ran for 300 issues and ended, as Sim had planned from early on, in 2004. Over the run of the comic, Sim used it as a springboard to explore not only the potential of the comics medium but also many of the core assumptions of Western society.

741.5 Ha Edited by Michael G. Rhode

Harvey Pekar: conversations Nearly twenty-five years of collected interviews with the comic book artist most often known for the long-running American Splendor autobiographical comic book series.

741.5 Ho Edited by Brannon Costello

Howard Chaykin: conversations One of the most distinctive voices in mainstream comics since the 1970s, Howard Chaykin has earned a reputation as a visionary formal innovator and a compelling storyteller whose comics offer both pulp-adventure thrills and thoughtful engagement with real-world politics and culture.

741.5 Ji Edited by Jason Sacks Jim Shooter: conversations As an American comic book writer, editor, and businessman, Jim Shooter remains among the most important figures in the history of the medium.

741.5 Mi Edited by Robert C. Harvey

Milton Caniff: conversations In this collection of more than a dozen interviews one of the giants of American comic strips talks about his life and his craft. The years spanning 1937 to 1986, when the interviews were conducted, embrace almost all of Caniff's career as he was producing the legendary Terry and the Pirates and his post-World War II masterpiece Steve Canyon.

741.5 Mo Edited by Jason Whiton Mort Walker: conversations When Mort Walker was ten years old, he received an inscribed Moon Mullins cartoon from its creator Frank Willard that read, "Say Morton, those drawings you sent me were swell-I'll bet you'll be a big shot cartoonist some day." By the time he was fifteen, Walker was a comic strip artist for a daily metropolitan newspaper. By the time he was eighteen, he was chief editor of Hallmark Cards. In 1950, King Features picked up his strip Beetle Bailey for syndication. Four years later, Walker created a spin-off of Beetle Bailey called Hi and Lois. Both strips continue to run daily, drawn and/or supervised by Walker, and Beetle Bailey is distributed to roughly 1,800 newspapers. Walker is one of the most widely read cartoonists in American history, and a legend in his own time.

741.5 Pe Edited by Kent Worcester Peter Bagge: conversations For fans of Peter Bagge and his bracing satirical writing and drawing, this collection offers a perfect means to track how he describes his career choices, work habits, preoccupations, and comedic sensibility since the 1980s. Featuring a new interview and much previously unavailable material, this book delivers insightful, occasionally gossipy, sometimes funny, and often tart conversations.

741.5 Pe Edited by Kent Worcester Peter Kuper: conversations Peter Kuper, one of America's leading cartoonists, has created work that is recognized around the world. His art has graced the pages and covers of numerous magazines and newspapers, including Time, the New Yorker, Mother Jones, and the New York Times. He is also a longtime contributor to Mad magazine, where he has been writing and drawing Spy vs. Spy for nearly two decades and the cofounder and coeditor of World War 3 Illustrated, the cutting-edge magazine devoted to political graphic art.

741.5 Rc Edited by D. K. Holm R. Crumb: conversations R. Crumb's illustrations have appeared on the covers of albums by Big Brother and the Holding Company, on bootlegged T-shirts, and in several underground newspapers. He is, however, first and foremost, known as the father of underground comics and for work that paved the way for both satirical comics and autobiographical work in the comics medium.

741.5 Se Edited by Eric Hoffman Seth: conversations Canadian cartoonist Gregory Gallant, pen name Seth, emerged as a cartoonist in the fertile period of the 1980s, when the alternative comics market boomed. Though he was influenced by mainstream comics in his teen years and did his earliest comics work on Mister X, a mainstream-style melodrama, Seth remains one of the least mainstream-inflected figures of the alternative comics' movement. His primary influences are underground commix, newspaper strips, and classic cartooning.

741.5 St Edited by Jeff McLaughlin Stan Lee: conversations Stan Lee, co-creator of Amazing Spider-Man, Fantastic Four, Incredible Hulk, and Uncanny X-Men, is one of the most successful writers and publishers of comics. During the 1960s and 1970s, he wrote superhero adventures for Marvel Comics.

741.5 Wi Edited by M. Thomas Inge

Will Eisner: conversations Will Eisner's innovations in the comics, especially the comic book and the graphic novel, as well as his devotion to comics analysis, make him one of comics' first true auteurs and the cartoonist so revered and influential that cartooning's highest honor is named after him.

791.43 Wa Edited by Kathy Merlock Jackson

Walt Disney: conversations A collection of interviews in which Walt Disney discusses his career, his vision, and his favorite projects.

940.53 Ri Ripp, Victor Hell’s traces: one murder, two families, thirty-five Holocaust memorials In a remarkable meditation on memorial and loss, Victor Ripp recounts his journey to hundreds of Holocaust memorials throughout Europe in an attempt to find affirmation of his lost family members.