Growingold With BC: A Celebration Of Johnny Hart - Softcover

Johnny Hart

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1933160683 ISBN 13: 9781933160689

Publisher: Checker Book Publishing Group, 2007

Synopsis

This Fall Checker Book Publishing marks the upcoming 50th anniversary of an American cartoon icon, B.C. by Johnny Hart. Features strips hand-picked from the master himself prior to his death in April 2007. This collection, which celebrates the half-century love affair America has with the introspective caveman community, features rare and never before published concept art for the strip and a compendium of each individual decade. GrowinGold With B.C., A Celebration of Johnny Hart collects the Reuben Award-winning strip more comprehensively than ever before. Thor, Wiley, Ida and of course B.C. himself are all here in one hilarious birthday party for one of America's most enduring comic strips.

About this title

About the Author:

Johnny Hart is a Checker Publishing author.

From Booklist:

When he died, in April 2007, Hart had drawn the newspaper strip B.C. for 50 years. Hence, this overview of his career is timely, although not quite what his fans might consider an ideal tribute. Hart himself chose the hundreds of weekday strips in it (oddly, almost no Sunday installments are included) and grouped them by decade but omitted specific dates and any annotation. Other background information is sparse, just a terse biography and profiles of Hart's buddies who inspired the strip's characters. Although the early strips are more crudely drawn, they're fresher, with the concept of discovery kept to the fore as the comical cavemen invent everything from fire and the wheel to baseball and golf. Hart never lost his appealingly casual drawing style, but by the 1970s, B.C. had become formulaic. Its anachronisms no longer seemed intentional but a matter of laziness, as when characters supposedly living long before the birth of Christ celebrated Christmas (surprisingly, none of Hart's controversial Christian-themed strips appear). Still, this generous sampler should please Hart's faithful audience. Flagg, Gordon

About this edition

• Publisher: Checker Book Publishing Group
• Publication date: 2007
• ISBN 10: 1933160683
• ISBN 13: 9781933160689
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 200