The Crystal Ballroom
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.92 (822 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1560975458 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 109 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-04-03 |
| Language | : | English |
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. He lives in South Plains, New Jersey with his wife. Thorne's work has also appeared in Heavy Metal and Playboy. About the AuthorFrank Thorne has had an extensive career in comics including working on Red Sonja for Marvel Comics and creating Ghita of Alizar
He lives in South Plains, New Jersey with his wife. Thorne's work has also appeared in Heavy Metal and Playboy. Frank Thorne has had an extensive career in comics including working on Red Sonja for Marvel Comics and creating Ghita of Alizar.
Hugh Murphy said Murph's comments. The art work was outstanding. My wife grew up in Rahway and knew some of the characters, the depiction of whom was accurate in both text and illlustration. It was an interesting story of the trials of a teenager in the late Murph's comments Hugh Murphy The art work was outstanding. My wife grew up in Rahway and knew some of the characters, the depiction of whom was accurate in both text and illlustration. It was an interesting story of the trials of a teenager in the late 40's.. 0's.. "A moving joyride" according to A Customer. The coming of age story of a musically-inclined Jersey boy in the late A moving joyride A Customer The coming of age story of a musically-inclined Jersey boy in the late 40's, who gets his big break playing his horn at the Crystal Ballroom in Keansburg and, in the process, discovering the fickle nature of lust and beauty. Told in the prose of a young man, the book channels deep emotions that every adolescent has felt who ever dreamed of grasping the brass ring of his heart's desires. Packed with anecdotes and characters familiar to all, with historically acc. 0's, who gets his big break playing his horn at the Crystal Ballroom in Keansburg and, in the process, discovering the fickle nature of lust and beauty. Told in the prose of a young man, the book channels deep emotions that every adolescent has felt who ever dreamed of grasping the brass ring of his heart's desires. Packed with anecdotes and characters familiar to all, with historically acc. A moving joyride! The coming of age story of a musically-inclined Jersey boy in the late A moving joyride! weirdmagic The coming of age story of a musically-inclined Jersey boy in the late 40's, who gets his big break playing his horn at the Crystal Ballroom in Keansburg and, in the process, discovering the fickle nature of lust and beauty. Told in the prose of a young man, the book channels deep emotions that every adolescent has felt who ever dreamed of grasping the brass ring of his heart's desires. Packed with anecdotes and characters familiar to all, with historically acc. 0's, who gets his big break playing his horn at the Crystal Ballroom in Keansburg and, in the process, discovering the fickle nature of lust and beauty. Told in the prose of a young man, the book channels deep emotions that every adolescent has felt who ever dreamed of grasping the brass ring of his heart's desires. Packed with anecdotes and characters familiar to all, with historically acc
A Moving And Eloquent Memoir Of A Professional Comic Book Artist. The Crystal Ballroom is Frank Thomes's sequal to his first illustrated autobiography, Drawing Sexy Women--" coming of age in the spring of' 46, " as the sub-title has it Thomedescribes his growing passion for popular culture--Harry James, Artie Shaw, Satchmo, Betty Grable, Buster Crabbe's Flash Gordon as well as Alex Raymond's Flash Gordon newspaper strip (in The New York Journal American), pulp fiction and movies--his growing interest in drawing and playing the cornoet, his budding sexuality, and of course, his dream of playing in The Crystal Ballroom with his jazz idols. By tums an expression of postwar exuberance and bittersweet rite of passage, copiously illustrated with over 80 exquisite pencil drawings by the author that capture the feel of the period and complement the prose, The Crystal Ballroom is the most moving and eloquent memoir of a cartoonist ever written.. He began drawing comic in the 1950s and quickly established himself as a supremely compete