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Astro City by Kurt Busiek, Brent Anderson, Alex Ross
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Overview: Kurt Busiek’s Astro City is a comic book series centered on a fictional American city of that name. Written by Kurt Busiek, the series is co-created and illustrated by Brent Anderson with character designs and painted covers by Alex Ross.

    Awards:

      Winner both the Eisner and Harvey Awards for Best New Series for 1996,
      Winner the Eisner for Best Continuing Series for 1997 and 1998,
      Winner the Harvey for Best Continuing or Limited Series for 1998,
      Winner the Harvey Award for Best Graphic Album of Previously Published Work for 1997 for Astro City: Life in the Big City.
      Winner the Comics Buyer’s Guide Fan Award for Favorite Reprint Graphic Novel/Album for 1997.
      A top vote-getter for the Comics Buyer’s Guide Fan Award for Favorite Limited Series for 1997.
      A top vote-getter for Astro City: Confession the Comics Buyer’s Guide Fan Award for Favorite Reprint Graphic Album of 1998 and 1999.
      A top vote-getter for Astro City: Family Album the Comics Buyer’s Guide Fan Award for Favorite Reprint Graphic Album of 1999.

    Kurt Busiek was honored with 1998’s Harvey and 1999’s Eisner for Best Writer, in both instances for bodies of work including Astro City. Alex Ross took both awards for Best Cover Artist in 1996, 1997, and 1998, in all instances but one for Astro City or bodies of work including it (the exception was the 1997 Harvey, awarded for Kingdom Come #1). He also took 1999’s Harvey and 2000’s Eisner for Best Cover Artist, again for bodies of work including Astro City.

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Astro City

    Writer(s) : Kurt Busiek
    Artist(s) : Brent Anderson, Alex Ross
    Creator(s) : Kurt Busiek and Brent Anderson
    Editor(s) : Kurt Busiek, Ann Huntington-Busiek, John Layman
    Publisher : Image Comics, Homage Comics, Wildstorm (DC)

      The metro area of Astro City is a mecca for super-powered beings, largely because Air Ace, the first public super-hero and a decorated veteran, established residency there shortly after World War I. The series has established a large cast of characters, from small cameo roles of a few panels to full center stage attention spanning several issues.

      The series is an anthology that focuses on different characters living within Astro City, using a wide range of viewpoints. Some issues are told from the viewpoint of heroes, some from the more typical vantage point of average people, others from villains and shady criminals.

      Stories also vary greatly in length, from one issue to sixteen in the case of the current story arc, Dark Age, whose main viewpoint remains that of Charles and Royal Williams, two brothers in their early adult years living in Astro City. As another interesting twist, this story is set in the 1970s, when some super-heroes were declining in popularity, due to general mistrust of authority figures, along with the more violent, gritty tactics that some super-heroes were practicing. Hence the notion of a "Dark Age."

      The essential hook of Astro City is that it explores how people — both ordinary people and the heroes and villains themselves — react to living in their world. For example, in the first story, Samaritan reflects on his life during a typical day in which he spends almost all of his waking hours flying around the world to help people, and never has any time to enjoy the sheer physical sensation of flight.

      Other stories involve a date between two high-profile heroes, the initiation of a "kid sidekick" hero, the efforts of a reformed supervillain to find a life outside of prison, a superhero being driven away from Earth by his "love’s" attempts to expose him, and the life of an innocent bystander in the days after having been held hostage by a super-villain.

      While the focus has been on the heroes of Astro City itself, the series does mention, and at times occasionally shows, heroes from other cities such as Boston’s Silversmith, Chicago’s The Untouchable and New York City’s Skyscraper.

      Astro City and its creators have won a number of Eisner Awards and Harvey Awards, the American comic industry’s equivalent of science fiction’s Hugo Awards, as well as several Comics Buyer’s Guide Fan Awards.

Note: See also by Alex Ross:

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