New York: Abrams, 2008. First edition thus, first printing. Hardcover. Full red cloth with colored lettering. Fine in a fine dust jacket, with only a tiny red remainder dot to lower page block. A tight, clean copy. Large quarto, 669 pages, with index and hundreds of color and black-and-white illustrations. This book combines in one volume Brian Walker s two authoritative surveys, "The Comics Before 1945" and "The Comics Since 1945," offering a comprehensive visual and historical record of the newspaper comic strip. Brian Walker (b. 1952), a cartoonist, historian, and son of Beetle Bailey creator Mort Walker, has curated exhibitions on cartoon art at major museums and written widely on comics history. Originally published separately in two volumes, this is the first complete single-volume edition.

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Title

The Comics: The Complete Collection

Publisher

Abrams, New York

Publication Date

2008

ISBN 10

0810971291

ISBN 13

9780810971295

Binding

Hardcover

Edition

1st Edition

Condition

Fine

Dust Jacket Condition

Fine

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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

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