The second book in Abrams’ Marvel Arts line featuring the art of the multi-award-winning
bestselling beloved Mutts creator Patrick McDonnell and the greatest super heroes of the Marvel
Universe.The Super Hero’s Journey is a genuinely moving treatise on the inspiration we can take
from others and an antidote for cynicism.” —Alex Ross Fantastic Four: Full Circle McDonnell’s
unexpected conceit flies high and makes a perfect landing.” — Publishers Weekly [Starred
Review] A love letter to Marvel comics.”—NEWSARAMA A philosophical and spiritual look back at
the Silver Age comics heroes that inspired him McDonnell’s weaves his own path to cartooning
by intersecting his own art and renditions of Marvel’s classic heroes with the original iconic
artwork of their comics as the likes of Stan Lee Jack Kirby and Steve Ditko’s works weaves
throughout McDonnell’s history.”—io9 McDonnell's graphic novel is a love letter to both
Marvel's legendary creators and the valuable lessons found within their stories. — Screenrant
Inspiration fun and joy are to be found a plenty in Patrick McDonnell’s all-new The Super
Hero's Journey.”—AIPT Comics The Super Hero's Journey combines McDonnell's iconic cartooning
style with work from legendary Marvel artists like Jack Kirby Steve Ditko and Don Heck to
tell a story about positivity that's as biographical and spiritual as it is action-packed and
bombastic.”—CBR A profound and moving reading experience.”—FORCES OF GEEK Combining the magic
of Jack Kirby Stan Lee and Steve Ditko with the lessons of the Dalai Lama Patrick
McDonnell’s metatextual The Super Hero's Journeyis a unique addition to the graphic novel
medium.”—CONSKIPPERA gorgeous graphic celebration of Marvel Comics […] What makesThe Super
Hero's Journeystand out is the way McDonnell marries the biographical elements of Lee Kirby
and Ditko with his own autobiographical explorations of how their myth-making impacted on his
life as well as how those foundational superheroes resonated within the larger literary canon
(hence the Joseph Campbell of it all). — Boing Boing Imbued with the creativity artwork and
heart of Patrick McDonnell this all-new graphic novel love letter features the classic Marvel
super heroes including the Fantastic Four the Incredible Hulk Captain America Black Panther
and Spider-Man and is the synthesis of McDonnell’s positive inspirational sensibility and
Marvel’s blockbuster brand. Using the Marvel Universe as avatars McDonnell muses on how comics
changed his life and inspired him to become a cartoonist instilling a moral sensibility that
he carries through his work and his life. Visually striking The Super Hero’s Journey
incorporates panels from classic Marvel comics as a tribute by McDonnell to his heroes—Stan Lee
Jack Kirby Steve Ditko and the other creators of the Marvel Universe—alongside inspirational
quotes from Eckhart Tolle Thoreau and others presenting an adventure unlike any you have
ever read. Also Available:Fantastic Four: Full Circle by Alex Ross
