The Comics: The Complete Collection

Walker, Brian

ISBN 10: 0810995956 / ISBN 13: 9780810995956

Published by Abrams, 2011

About this Item

12.75" x 9.75". 672 pp. "The most authoritative history of American newspaper comics.a classic survey of American popular culture." Numerous colour and b&w illustrations. Red boards with decorated spine. Bright clean copy. DJ has some light shelf wear, small closed tear at top corner of front panel. This book weighs 3.5 kg, extra postage may be requested.

Seller Inventory # 018879

Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Comics: The Complete Collection
• Publisher: Abrams
• Publication Date: 2011
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0810995956
• ISBN 13: 9780810995956
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good
• Seller catalogs:
  • Comics
  • History

About this title

Synopsis

Brian Walker’s two comprehensive guides to American comics, The Comics Before 1945 and The Comics Since 1945, are combined here in one beautifully designed omnibus edition, The Comics: The Complete Collection. Cartoon authority Brian Walker has amassed over a century of strips—more than 1,300 images—including rare examples provided by the artists themselves. Featured cartoonists include George Herriman (Krazy Kat), Walt Kelly (Pogo), Charles Schulz (Peanuts), Bill Watterson (Calvin and Hobbes), Scott Adams (Dilbert), Patrick McDonnell (Mutts), and many more. Organized by decade, with biographical profiles and analysis of the different genres, The Comics is a graphically stunning, and terrifically priced survey of American newspaper comics.

Praise for The Comics:

"The strips . . . are beautifully reproduced and carefully annotated."
 -The New York Times

"As a detailed and informed one-volume history of the newspaper comics, Walker's The Comics is the best book we have."
 -PW Comics Week 

"[The Comics is] excellent at conjuring the feeling of feverish joy that comics can provide." 
-The Washington Post

"This is a terrific collection both for novices in need of an overview and for aficionados looking for new discoveries." 
-A.V. Club 

“a bountiful treasury of an underrated 20th-century art form at its best, one bound to amuse and enlighten”

—The Palm Beach Post

"This is a book to be savored, enjoyed a page at a time, perhaps the perfect coffee-table tome." 
-The Plain Dealer

About the Author

Brian Walker has written and edited more than two dozen books and curated more than 70 cartoon exhibitions. Since 1984 he has been part of the creative team that produces the comic strips Beetle Bailey and Hi and Lois. He lives in Wilton, Connecticut.