The Smithsonian Collection of Newspaper Comics, 1977 Hardcover Coffee Table Book

Description: The Smithsonian Collection of Newspaper Comics, 1977 Hardcover Coffee Table Book Selected comic treasures from American newspaper pages from 1896 to the 1970s display a range of graphic experimentation and imaginative storytelling Perfect for mixed media art or making some of the most beautiful pieces of art from these pages! This is the one you want! No rips or tears, but some pages have some more drastic yellowing or staining. Please see all photos! Measures 10 1/2 inches wide by 14 1/4 inches tall. Slightly musty but that will matter less behind a big pane of glass. This will ship media mail even though eBay will not let me choose it right now. Edited by Bill Blackbeard and Martin Williams. Co-published by Smithsonian Institution Press and Harry N. Abrams. Over 750 plates, including 90 pages in color. 336+ pages of real Americanism here-including some really artful graphics. Newspaper comics—typically irreverent and blunt—were beloved by the American public long before they were recognized as a serious native art form. One of the problems, according to the useful text that accompanies this great feast of comics, is that the early strips tended to appear in newspapers that better educated Americans didn’t read, such as the Hearst papers. Art critic John Canaday, who writes the foreword to this book, says that he followed his favorite comics as a boy in Texas by pawing through his neighbor’s trash, because his father wouldn’t allow a Hearst paper in the house. Nowadays, comic strips are admired for their narrative power, their artistic originality, and the inventiveness of the language that bubbles out of their dialogue balloons. ( Goon, heebie jeebies, horse feathers, zowie , and glug were all originally comic-strip phrases.) In the years covered in this collection, 1896 to the present, an astonishing range of artists have tried their hands at drawing comics; John Held is here, and the New Yorker cartoonist Rea Irvin, and even Dr. Seuss. The connoisseur’s comic is unquestionably Krazy Kat, that gentle soul who meandered through George Herriman’s strip for thirty-one years. In terms of both nostalgia and discovery, this sumptuous collection is positively seductive.This should be listed as Media Mail, and I will attempt to mail it this way.

Price: 12.55 USD

Location: Spring Hill, Florida

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