Sentence examples for book auteur from inspiring English sources

He was conceived by comic book auteur Alan Moore in Saga of the Swamp Thing as "an almost blue-collar warlock" whose looks were loosely based on Sting – the Sting of Quadrophenia, though, not the "Fields of Gold" video.

Renowned cartoonist Paul Karasik described Hanks as "the first great comic book auteur," because he wrote, penciled, inked, and lettered all of his own stories.

Fincher was tapped as director a while back, making the former les enfant terrible behind "Fight Club" and "Se7en" the preeminent airplane book auteur of the moment: Fincher, of course, also directed "The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo".

We also get a sneak peak of an upcoming book from Fantagraphics that includes the complete works of Fletcher Hanks, a comic book auteur with a disturbing and mysterious past.

Thus began the partnership between Sammy and Josef Kavalier, in a meeting terrifically auspicious not only for these two future comic book auteurs but for Michael Chabon, the wizard who conjured them.

Comic-book films rarely inspire auteur directors to really distinctive results, and you wonder whether a superhero – even if he does have existential traumas and razor-edged adamantium claws – will have the touch of intense seriousness that distinguishes Aronofsky from his contemporaries.

The first two are lavishly mounted adaptations of beloved best-selling books, directed by auteurs as bankable as they are revered; and the last film is the fourth instalment in a longstanding series, as well as the first live-action film from a prince of Pixar.

So though you may be the author of the original book, the director becomes the auteur of the film.

Other, better Hitchcock aficionados — most notably François Truffaut in his book-length conversation with his fellow auteur — have already paid considerable attention to the most flagrant kinkiness in the Hitchcock canon.

In Peter Biskind's recent book "My Lunches with Orson," the late auteur despairs of time periods like the nineteen-twenties ever being depicted properly in film, saying — quite accurately — that if a fifties film attempts to portray the twenties, it looks like the twenties in the nineteen-fifties.

A tie-in authored by the auteur's daughter, Jennifer, the book was meant to be a stopgap between seasons.