Authors:Art Spiegelman, Chip Kidd,
Publisher: Chronicle Books
Keywords: stretched, limits, forms, man, cole, plastic, jack
Number of Pages: 144
Published: 2001-08-01
List price: $19.95
ISBN-10: 0811831795
ISBN-13: 9780811831796

Pulitzer Prize-winning writer and illustrator Art Spiegelman joins forces with designer Chip Kidd to pay homage to the comic book hero Plastic Man and his creator, Jack Cole. Plastic Man is more than just a putty face--with his bad-boy past, he literally embodies the comic book form: the exuberant energy, flexibility, boyishness, and subtle hints of sexuality. And as cartoonists "become" each character they create, it can be said that Jack Cole himself resembles Plastic Man. Cole revealed the true magnitude and intensity of his imagination and inner thoughts as Plastic Man slithered from panel