Society Is Nix: Gleeful Anarchy at the Dawn of The American Comic Strip, 1895-1915 - Couverture rigide

 
9798875000607: Society Is Nix: Gleeful Anarchy at the Dawn of The American Comic Strip, 1895-1915
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ISBN 13 : 9798875000607
Editeur : Fantagraphics, 2025

Synopsis

“Mit Dose Kids, SOCIETY IS NIX!” So said The Inspector about the
Katzenjammer Kids. But he could have been speaking of all comic
strips in their formative years in the early 1900s. From the very first
color Sunday supplement, comics were a driving force in newspaper
sales, offering a wild parody of the world and the culture
found in the surrounding pages. Society didn’t stand a chance!
These are the origins of the American comic strip, born at a time
when there were no set styles or formats, when creators had the freedom
to experiment, when artistic anarchy helped spawn a new medium.
The genesis of comics is laid out in a dozen essays by the greatest in
their field ― historians like Thierry Smolderen, Brian Walker, Alfredo
Castelli, Bill Kartalopoulos, Paul C. Tumey and others. And in the second,
revised edition of this seminal collection: over 200 comic strips!
The earliest comics by acknowledged greats like R. F. Outcault, George
McManus, Winsor McCay, and George Herriman, along with creations of
more than fifty other superb cartoonists, known and unknown.
The classic strips, most not printed in over 100 years, are presented
in their original colors at the incredible oversized format Sunday Press
is known for: all the better to see the comics that would inspire the next
century of comics to come!

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À propos de l?auteur

Peter Maresca is the multiple Eisner and Harvey Award-winning publisher of high-quality, full-sized collections of classic American newspaper strips. His Sunday Press books represent a high-water mark in the reproduction and preservation of American comic strips. Maresca changed the concept of comic reprints in 2005 with his original-sized Little Nemo in Slumberland: So Many Splendid Sundays, Winsor McCay's groundbreaking strip. He continued with Sundays with Walt & Skeezix (Frank King's Gasoline Alley), George Herriman's Krazy Kat, Chester Gould's Dick Tracy, and a dozen others. Maresca lives a relatively non-virtual life in Palo Alto, CA.

À propos de la quatrième de couverture

“Mit Dose Kids, SOCIETY IS NIX!” So said The Inspector about the
Katzenjammer Kids. But he could have been speaking of all comic
strips in their formative years in the early 1900s. From the very first
color Sunday supplement, comics were a driving force in newspaper
sales, offering a wild parody of the world and the culture
found in the surrounding pages. Society didn’t stand a chance!
These are the origins of the American comic strip, born at a time
when there were no set styles or formats, when creators had the freedom
to experiment, when artistic anarchy helped spawn a new medium.
The genesis of comics is laid out in a dozen essays by the greatest in
their field ― historians like Thierry Smolderen, Brian Walker, Alfredo
Castelli, Bill Kartalopoulos, Paul C. Tumey and others. And in the second,
revised edition of this seminal collection: over 200 comic strips!
The earliest comics by acknowledged greats like R. F. Outcault, George
McManus, Winsor McCay, and George Herriman, along with creations of
more than fifty other superb cartoonists, known and unknown.
The classic strips, most not printed in over 100 years, are presented
in their original colors at the incredible oversized format Sunday Press
is known for: all the better to see the comics that would inspire the next
century of comics to come!

Les informations fournies dans la section « A propos du livre » peuvent faire référence à une autre édition de ce titre.

Éditeur
Fantagraphics
Date d'édition
2025
Langue
anglais
ISBN 13 
9798875000607
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
167
Éditeur
Maresca Peter
Coordonnées du fabricant
non disponible
Personne responsable
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