Drawing Power: A Compendium of Cartoon Advertising [ Stated First, July 2011 Printing ]
Rick Marschall; Warren Bernard
Language: English
Published by Marschall Books, New York, 2011
Series: Book 1 of 1 - Drawing Power: A Compendium of Cartoon Advertising
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- Title
- Drawing Power: A Compendium of Cartoon Advertising [ Stated First, July 2011 Printing ]
- Author
- Rick Marschall; Warren Bernard
- Publisher
- Marschall Books, New York
- Publication year
- 2011
- Condition
- Fine
- Binding
- Soft cover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 1606993992
- ISBN 13
- 9781606993996
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Series
- Book 1 of 1: Drawing Power: A Compendium of Cartoon Advertising
oDr Seuss' "Flit" cartoons and his longtime career hyping motor oil
oThe best-looking comic strip ads ever: Milton Caniff and Noel Sickles (under pen names!) depicting character's personal crises relieved by a coffee substitute
oLittle Orphan Annie's famous Ovaltine campaign (as seen in A Christmas Story.)
oPeanuts shilling Falcons, Dagwood selling atomic energy, and virtually every super-hero trafficking in the mortal realm to shill every product imaginable.
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About the Author
Warren Bernard is Executive Director of the Small Press Expo (SPX) independent sequential art festival, and is a comics-focused writer and historian. He co-authored the Eisner Award-nominated book Drawing Power, and has extensively researched and written about the 1950s Juvenile Delinquency / Senate Comic Book Hearings. A contributor to more than a dozen books, he often provides rare materials from his own extensive collection. Both the Library of Congress and the Center for Cartoon Studies (CCS) have hosted his lectures. He lives in Bethesda, Maryland.
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