Mr. Twee Deedle: Raggedy Ann's Sprightly Cousin
Published by Fantagraphics Books, 2012
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ISBN 1606994115. Hardback. Oversized: 18"x24". No statement of later printing on copyright page. No dust jacket; bound in green/gray boards with maroon and gold lettering and design. Very Slight wear to corners of boards; otherwise tight, sound and unmarked in Very Good to Near Fine condition.
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- Title
- Mr. Twee Deedle: Raggedy Ann's Sprightly Cousin
- Author
- Johnny Gruelle, Rick Marschall (Editor), Tony Millionaire (Introduction)
- Publisher
- Fantagraphics Books
- Publication year
- 2012
- Condition
- Very Good
- Dust jacket
- No Dustjacket
- Signed
- No Signature
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 1606994115
- ISBN 13
- 9781606994115
- Edition
- Later Edition.
- Seller catalogs
- Juvenile Fiction
A spectacular re-presentation of a lost classic.
The second Marschall Books collection from Fantagraphics is a magnificent collection of Mr. Twee Deedle, Johnny Gruelle’s masterpiece, unjustly forgotten by history and never before reprinted since its first appearance in America’s newspapers from 1911 to 1914. The title character in the Sunday color page, Mr. Twee Deedle, is a magical wood sprite who befriends the strip’s two human children, Dickie and Dolly. Gruelle depicted a charming, fantastical child’s world, filled with light whimsy and outlandish surrealism. The artwork is among the most stunning ever to grace an Amercian newspaper page, and Gruelle’s painterly color makes every page look like it was created on a canvas.Gruelle’s creation was the winning entry out of 1500 submissions to succeed Little Nemo, which the New York Herald was losing at the time to the rival Hearst papers. With such import, the Herald added a $2000 prize, a long contract, and arguably the most care devoted to the reproduction of any color newspaper comic strip before or since. Yet the wood sprite and his fanciful world have been strangely overlooked, partly because Gruelle created Raggedy Ann immediately after the strip’s run, eclipsing not only Mr. Twee Deedle but almost everything else the cartoonist ever did.
Mr. Twee Deedle stands as a bizarre time-warp: at a time when most children’s literature and kids’ comic strips were somewhat violent or starkly moralistic (the Brothers Grimm; the Katzenjammer Kids; and even Little Nemo itself, which often depicted nightmares, fears, and dangers), Twee Deedle was sensitive and whimsical. Instead of stark moralizing, it presented gentle lessons. It reads today like a work for the 21st century… indeed for all times, all ages.
Mr. Twee Deedle is edited and includes an introduction by comics historian Rick Marschall. The volume will present the first year of the forgotten masterpiece and selected episodes from later years, as well as special drawings, promotional material, and related artwork. 128 pages of full color
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About the Author
Rick Marschall, called by BostoniaMagazine “perhaps America’s foremost authority on popular culture,” has written or edited more than 60 books. He co-founded Nemo: The Classic Comics Library and Hogan’s Alley magazines and is President of Rosebud Archives. He also has taught comics history at the School of Visual Arts and Rutgers University.
Tony Millionaire is the creator of the award-winning weekly syndicated comic strip Maakies. His books include Billy Hazelnuts, Billy Hazelnuts and the Crazy Bird, Der Struwwelmaakies, Drinky Crow's Maakies Treasury, Maakies with the Wrinkled Knees, Mighty Mite the Ear Mite, Premillennial Maakies, Little Maakies on the Prairie, The House at Maakies Corner, When We Were Very Maakies, 500 Portraits, and the Sock Monkey series of comics and storybooks. He lives in Maine.
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