100 YEARS OF AMERICAN NEWSPAPER COMICS

This is an extraordinary celebration of one of America's great popular art forms. In this definitive comics encyclopedia, the alphabetical sections include individual listings for every important strip in the history of  newspaper comics. There are hundreds of black and white illustrations accompanying the entries, and a sixty-four-page full-color section is devoted to the finest Sunny color comics, highlighting many rare pages from the earliest days of the medium. The  information on years of publication includes syndicate, artists and writers, and synopses of typical plots. Wonderful characters are brought to life here, also the exquisite artistry and storytelling of the strips creators such as Winsor McCay, George McManus, Walt Kelly, George Harriman, Alex Raymond, Hal Foster, Will Eisner, Milton Caniff, Cliff Street and Bill Patterson are among many others who are spotlighted. Out of Print. Condition: Fine Plus. Softly bumped spine corners.