Willard Mullin's Golden Age Of Baseball Drawings 1934-1972 - Hardcover

Mullins, Willard

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1606996398 ISBN 13: 9781606996393

Publisher: Fantagraphics Books, 2013

Synopsis

The years 1930-1970 were the Golden Age of both American sports and American comic strips, and we turn your attention to a neglected part of the art form—sports cartooning—and to its greatest practitioner, Willard Mullin.Willard Mullin’s Golden Age of Baseball: Drawings 1934-1972 collects for the first time Mullin’s best drawings devoted to baseball. Mullin was to baseball players what Bill Mauldin was to soldiers: advocate and critic, investing them with personality, humanity, dignity, and poignancy; Mauldin had Willie & Joe and Mullin had the Brooklyn Bum, his affectionate 1939 character representing the bedraggled figure of the Brooklyn Dodgers.

About this title

About the Author:

Willard Mullin (1902–1978) was an American sports cartoonist most famous for his creation of the “Brooklyn Bum,” the personification of the Brooklyn Dodgers baseball team. He was widely published: he cartooned daily for Scripps-Howard’s New York World-TelegramandSun for decades and was often published in Scripps-Howard’s papers, as well as in The Sporting News.  

Michael Powers was born in Long Beach, California, and grew up on the beaches of Southern California and the Outer Banks of North Carolina. He is an attorney and a graduate of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and the University of the Pacific. Over the last 30 years, he has written about baseball, jazz, boxing, art history, sports law and politics, among other subjects.

Review:

“"A beautiful compilation of the finest work of a uniquely talented artist."”
- Bob Costas

About this edition

• Publisher: Fantagraphics Books
• Publication date: 2013
• ISBN 10: 1606996398
• ISBN 13: 9781606996393
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 200
• Editor: Brock Hal, Powers Michael