The Amazon [Hardcover]

Steven T. Seagle (Author), Tim Sale (Author)

Book Description

One of the earliest projects from acclaimed writer Steven T. Seagle and superstar artist Tim Sale returns in a gorgeous hardcover edition! The Amazon jungle is among the most ancient and biologically diverse places on earth, but it's being plundered for its resources and destroyed at a rate of thousands of acres a day. Reporter Malcolm Hilliard travels to this remote land of mystery to investigate the disappearance of an American worker and the subsequent sabotage of a timber company. Once there, Malcolm learns about the local cultures and myths, experiences the dark underside of industrial progress, gets drugged and left to fend for himself in the jungle, and is confronted by the Spirit of the Amazon itself in Seagle and Sale's South American Heart of Darkness.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 88 pages
• Publisher: Dark Horse
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1569718377
• ISBN-13: 978-1569718377
• Product Dimensions: 10.5 x 6.8 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,154,472 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Steven T. Seagle is an American writer who works in the graphic novel/comic book, television, film, live theater, video game, and animation, industries.

He is best known for his acclaimed graphic novel memoir IT'S A BIRD... and, as part of Man of Action Studios (along with Duncan Rouleau, Joe Casey and Joe Kelly) as co-creator of the animated Cartoon Network series BEN 10 and GENERATOR REX. Man of Action Studios recently launched its own comic book imprint published through Image Comics. Seagle has contributed to the line with the graphic novel SOUL KISS. Seagle and Rouleau also created the Marvel Comics super-hero team Big Hero 6.

Seagle is also a founding member of Speak Theater Arts, creators of innovative live stage productions. Most recently he co-wrote, co-directed and produced two live stage comedies. N*GGER WETB*CK CH*NK (www.NWClive.com) continues to tour nationally after three years generating explosive laughs, a massive fan base, and impressive reviews including full-page features in both The LA Times and the New York Times. ArmeniaMania! (www.armeniamania.com) staged two preview performances as part of the Los Angeles Grand Performances series and will open in LA early next year. Seagle also co-directed one of the national world premiere stagings of The Laramie Project: Ten Years Later, An Epilogue with a celbrity cast and a full musical compliment.

Seagle's original comic book series HOUSE OF SECRETS was sold as a feature to Marc Canton/Warner Brothers, and Seagle wrote the screenplay (unproduced). The same week he also sold the genre action pilot CARNIVAL(not Carnivale) to FOX in association with Spelling Entertainment (unproduced). In that same week he sold the action/comedy DOT'S BOTS to Mainframe Animation completing an amazing week and an "unproduced" trifecta.

Seagle's comics work has received numerous Eisner Award nominations, including twice for best writer - in 1995 for his work on SANDMAN MYSTERY THEATRE(DC/Vertigo) and in 1999 for the same title and his story "Drive By" in ONI DOUBLE FEATURE #10 (Oni Press). Seagle's work on AMERICAN VIRGIN has been nominated twice for the GLAAD Meida Award for Best Comic Book. Seagle's run on UNCANNY X-MEN was awarded the Wizard Fan Award for Favorite Ongoing Series. His original graphic novel SOLSTICE was named Comic Book Resources 2007 Graphic Novel of the Year.

Seagle is a former college instructor having taught at Ball State University, Pasadena City College and Mt. San Antonio College where he also served as a coach for the Forensics team during many of their national championship seasons.