THE GREAT AMERICAN COMIC STRIP One Hundred Years Of Cartoon Art

This is both a serious appreciation of comics and art and a celebration of a wonderfully rich and vibrant tradition of humor in America. It provides a lively overview of comic strips in America, combining a highly readable survey with a "Who's Who" directory of 275 leading comic-strip artists and creators, both past and present. It also serves as a history of comics, from both an artistic perspective and as a form of social criticism. Provides works of well-known artists as well as some outstanding lesser-known artists, such as Winsor McCay, Harold Knerr, Frederick Burr Opper, Burne Hogarth, and more! There are 17 color and 120 black-and-white illustrations. Out of Print. Condition: Fine Minus. Minor edge wear, two softly bumped corners & a tiny tear at the top front cover.