{"product_id":"masters-of-american-comics-2","title":"MASTERS OF AMERICAN COMICS","description":"\u003cp\u003eComic strips and comic books were among the most popular and influential forms of mass media in 20thcentury America. This fascinating book focuses on fifteen pioneering cartoonists ranging from \u003cstrong\u003eWinsor McCay, Lyonel Feininger, George Herriman, E.C. Segar, Frank King, Chester Gould, Milton Caniff, and Charles M. Schulz at the Hammer Museum, and Will Eisner, Jack Kirby, Harvey Kurtzman, R. Crumb, Art Spiegelman, Gary Panter, and Chris Ware \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e--\u003c\/strong\u003ewho brought this genre to the highest level of artistic expression and who had the greatest impact on the development of the form.\n\nOrganized chronologically, \u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eMasters of American Comics\u003c\/em\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eexplores the rise of newspaper comic strips and comic books and considers their artistic development throughout the century. Presenting a wide selection of original drawings as well as progressive proofs, vintage printed Sunday pages, and comic books themselves, the authors also look at how the art of comics was transformed by artistic innovation as well as by changes in popular taste, economics, and printing conventions.\n\nFirst appearing in newspaper Sunday supplements, the comic strip became immediately successful and created the largest audience of any medium of its time. The comic book first began as a way to print existing newspaper comics, then subsequently established the mass popularity of superheroes in the 1940s and 1950s before it matured as a vehicle for independent personal expression in the underground comic books and graphic novels of the 1960s. Included in the book are insightful and entertaining essays on individual artists written by major figures in the fields of comics, narrative illustration, literature, popular culture, and art history. \u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eMasters of American Comics \u003c\/span\u003econvincingly positions the genre of comics into the history of art and is destined to become a classic text for years to come.\n\n\u003cstrong\u003eOut of Print.\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cstrong\u003eCondition: Very Fine\/As New. \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Yale University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":59642379436318,"sku":"RB6084","price":65.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0999\/0684\/7006\/files\/RB6084-masters-american-comics.jpg?v=1784510776","url":"https:\/\/shop.budsartbooks.com\/products\/masters-of-american-comics-2","provider":"Bud's Art Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}