A comprehensive survey of fifty years of comics explores how such characters as Buster Brown, Krazy Kat, and Li'l Abner reflected societal attitudes and changes in the first half of the twentieth century, providing in-depth biographies of twenty-one influential comic creators and featuring rare orig A comprehensive survey of fifty years of comics explores how such characters as Buster Brown, Krazy Kat, and Li'l Abner reflected societal attitudes and changes in the first half of the twentieth century, providing in-depth biographies of twenty-one influential comic creators and featuring rare orig
The Comics Before 1945
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A comprehensive survey of fifty years of comics explores how such characters as Buster Brown, Krazy Kat, and Li'l Abner reflected societal attitudes and changes in the first half of the twentieth century, providing in-depth biographies of twenty-one influential comic creators and featuring rare orig A comprehensive survey of fifty years of comics explores how such characters as Buster Brown, Krazy Kat, and Li'l Abner reflected societal attitudes and changes in the first half of the twentieth century, providing in-depth biographies of twenty-one influential comic creators and featuring rare orig
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Kim –
It's resourceful and well curated but the color restoration is so bad. It's resourceful and well curated but the color restoration is so bad.
Gary Sites –
What a wonderful book. I learned so much about the history of early comics. It's a keeper. What a wonderful book. I learned so much about the history of early comics. It's a keeper.
Jerome –
Good writing and overview of the strips, but the included comics are random and don't really give you a good flavor for the strip. Nothing will ever top the Smithsonian Collection book. Good writing and overview of the strips, but the included comics are random and don't really give you a good flavor for the strip. Nothing will ever top the Smithsonian Collection book.
captain america –
love this stuff. nice color reproductions and brief bios of less known artists.
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