COMIC ART IN AMERICA

A Social History of the Funnies, the Political Cartoons, Magazine Humor, Sporting Cartoons and Animated Cartoons. With an introduction by Rube Goldberg and nearly 400 illustrations. Chapters on the beginnings of comics and cartoons, a century of magazines, from almanacs to The New Yorker, World War II and after. This is a comprehensive survey printed in 1959, giving very early comic history! It includes such diverse specimens as Hairbreadth Harry, The Boy Hero (1907), to Milt Gross' Count Screwloose from Toulouse Soglow's Little King, and Pogo. From the Yellow Kid to Li'l Abner, from Ben Franklin's severed snake to Herblock, from stereopticons to Disney, Comic Art in America is a joyous romp through America's most popular art form. It is also a brilliant interpretative history of the past half century as seen through the comic strips, the sports and editorial-page cartoons, national magazines and every other medium where one picture (with or without captions) is worth a thousand words. In addition to its wealth of information on the cartoons themselves, it gives a hitherto-unknown view of what goes on behind the scenes. It names the master craftsmen, tells how they create, reveals who holds the purse strings that govern them, shows how many of your favorite features started and evolved into what they are today. The fascinating history of sports cartooning is presented. Along with the names that grace today's sports pages, you will learn about the men who started there and went on to other places: Robert Ripley, for one, did the first Believe It or Not on sports oddities, merely as a filler on a no-action day, and then there's the chapter on movie animation! Out Of Print. Condition: Fine Minus. Book has lightly bumped corners. Dustjacket has edge wear and tears along the spine, top and corners on both the front and back. Missing a piece at top spine.