tales to astonish by ronin ro
cavelier and clay by michael chabon
steranko noir by steranko
the modern masters series from tomorrow
10 cent plague
the art of George perez has a great long interview. i like the art books that are also a autobio
Reblogged just to add: Man, everyone who likes to read about the history of the comic book industry should make a point of picking up Men of Tomorrow by Gerard Jones. Imagine a Kavalier and Clay that’s actually true.
(Also, I’d probably throw Supergods and Douglas Wolk’s Reading Comics onto that list, although the latter isn’t a history-of-comics book and the former tends to drive people nuts, it seems. Oh, and Thrill Power Overload, which is a great history of 2000AD and British comics from the late 1970s through the turn of the millennium.)