Masters of American comics / essay by John Carlin ; with contributions by Stanley Crouch [and others] ; edited by John Carlin, Paul Karasik, and Brian Walker.
Comic strips and comic books were among the most popular and influential forms of mass media in 20th-century America. This fascinating book focuses on fifteen pioneering cartoonists, ranging from Winsor McCay to Chris Ware, who brought this genre to the highest level of artistic expression and who h...
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Los Angeles : New Haven [Conn.] :
Hammer Museum : Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles ; Yale University Press,
2005.
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Table of Contents:
- Masters of American comics: an art history of twentieth-century American comic strips and books / John Carlin
- Winsor McCay, The master's hand / Tom De Haven
- Lyonel Feininger, Lightning at the crossroads / Brian Walker
- George Herriman, Blues for Krazy Kat / Stanley Crouch
- E.C. Segar, Segar's Popeye / Jules Feiffer
- Frank King, Walt Wallet lives! / Karal Ann Marling
- Chester Gould, Villainy / Robert Store
- Milton Caniff / Pete Hamill
- Charles M. Schulz / Patrick McDonnell
- Will Eisner, Eisner by Pettibon / Raymond Pettibon
- Jack Kirby, Lo, from the demon shall come
- the public dreamer!!! / Glen David Gold
- Harvey Kurtzman, Harvey Kurtzman's hysterical materialism / J. Hoberman
- R. Crumb, It's only lines on paper / Françoise Mouly
- Art Spiegelman, Breakdownable / Jonathan Safran Foer
- Gary Panter, Genius and pal / Matt Groening
- Chris Ware / Dave Eggers.