Walt and Skeezix, Book 2 - Hardcover

King, Frank

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1896597998 ISBN 13: 9781896597997

Publisher: Drawn and Quarterly, 2006

Synopsis

"Gasoline Alley clearly belongs in the cannon as a deeply American masterwork of cartooning." -Time.com

Walt and Skeezix: Book Two collects the Gasoline Alley strips by the great American cartoonist Frank King from 1923 to 1924. King was the first cartoonist to have his characters age in real time and have modern story lines, a landmark conception for comic strips in the early twentieth century. There is a new eighty-page introduction by journalist Jeet Heer.

About this title

About the Author:

Cartoonist/designer Chris Ware is the author of Jimmy Corrigan: The Smartest
Kid on Earth, Quimby the Mouse, and the Acme Novelty Datebook (D+Q, 2003).Ware was born in 1967, two years before Frank King's death.

From Booklist:

In the second volume collecting King's entire run Gasoline Alley, the focus shifts from the strip's original range of colorful characters to bachelor Walt Wallet and Skeezix, the foundling whose arrival on Walt's doorstep changed the strip from a comedy about the emerging automobile culture to the warmhearted, domestic "dramedy" that continues to this day. In the first indication of the more-or-less real-time progression that became the strip's hallmark, Skeezix becomes a toddler in these episodes. Although King's drawing style is gaining in mastery to handle the strip's growing seriousness, the major progress here is in the story, as King injects drama and suspense into long continuities devoted to the growing relationship between Walt and his neighbor Mrs. Blossom, the adoption hearing for Skeezix, the nationwide hunt in the wake of Skeezix's kidnapping by his mysterious birth mother, and a cross-country auto race between Walt and fellow car buff Avery--the first of the extended travel sequences that King undertook during his four-decade tenure and that allowed his visual brilliance to shine. Gordon Flagg
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About this edition

• Publisher: Drawn and Quarterly
• Publication date: 2006
• ISBN 10: 1896597998
• ISBN 13: 9781896597997
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 400
• Editor: Ware Chris