
Great Moments in Computing - The Complete Edition
The Complete Collection of Comic Strips
Mel Croucher(Author)
Acorn Books (Publisher)
Published on 15. March 2022
Book
Paperback/Softback
150 pages
978-1-78982-923-5 (ISBN)
Description
This is the unexpurgated, hilarious and unflinching history of computers, of the lunatics who create them and of the idiots who use them, retold in cartoon form by Mel Croucher and Robin Evans. Great Moments In Computing was the longest-running, most widely read and best loved computer cartoon strip in the world and this unique collection contains every single episode... including unpublished and previously censored versions, five entirely new strips commissioned to bring the series to a close, and behind-the-scenes secrets of how it all really happened. The series began when strip one ran in 1988 in the monthly magazine Computer Shopper from Dennis Publishing; the periodical ceased publication in 2021 with the 395th episode. Here at Acorn Books, we couldn't leave the series unfinished and so commissioned Mel and Robin to create the final five episodes to see the series reach the magic 400 mark, coming to a natural conclusion. These episodes - along with much more - can only be seen in this complete, expanded, final FINAL edition!
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Edition
New Expanded ed.
Language
English
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Dimensions
Height: 276 mm
Width: 203 mm
Thickness: 10 mm
Weight
536 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-78982-923-5 (9781789829235)
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Persons
Mel Croucher is the acknowledged founder of the British computer games industry. Originally an architect, he moved into gaming "to force my weird music on an unwilling public."Among his innovations, he pioneered the first radio broadcasts of computer software, the first interactive soap opera, the first real-world adventure quest, the first computer-generated movie, the first AI virtual companion and the first million-user viral marketing campaign.He is the author of text books, technical manuals, fiction and non-fiction, and over a thousand of his columns, investigations and cartoon strips have appeared in print over five decades.