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Art Out of Time: Unknown Comics Visionaries, 1900-1969

10 best books like Art Out of Time: Unknown Comics Visionaries, 1900-1969 (Dan Nadel): I Shall Destroy All the Civilized Planets!, Pim and Francie: The Golden Bear Days, Kings in Disguise, Congress of the Animals, Powr Mastrs 1, Pogo: The Complete Syndicated Comic Strips, Vol. 1: Through the Wild Blue Wonder, Maakies, Graphic Witness: Four Wordless Graphic Novels, Four Color Fear: Forgotten Horror Comics of the 1950s, Kitaro

I Shall Destroy All the Civilized Planets!
AuthorFletcher Hanks
ISBN1560978392
Welcome to the bizarre world of Fletcher Hanks, Super Wizard of the Inkwell. Fletcher Hanks worked for only a few years in the earliest days of the comic book industry (1939-1941). Because he worked in a gutter medium for second-rate publishers on third-rate characters, his work has been largely forgotten....
Pim and Francie: The Golden Bear Days
AuthorAl Columbia
ISBN1606993046
This gorgeous grimoire is part alchemy, part art book, part storybook, part comic book, and part conceptual art from the pen of Al Columbia, a longtime fan favorite contributor to comics anthologies like Zero Zero, Blab , and more recently, MOME. Collecting over a decade s worth of artifacts, excavations,...
Kings in Disguise
AuthorJames Vance
ISBN0393328481
This award-winning tale, set in the height of the Great Depression, received rave reviews long before graphic novels became the phenomenon they are today. Hailed as one of the top 100 comics of all time by The Comics Journal, Kings in Disguise now reemerges as a classic. It is January 1932, and movie-loving...
Congress of the Animals
AuthorJim Woodring
ISBN1606994379
Readers of the "Frank" stories know that The Unifactor is in control of everything that happens to the characters that abide there, and that however extreme the experiences they undergo may be, in the end nothing really changes. That goes for treble for Frank himself, who is kept in a state of total ineducability...
Powr Mastrs 1
AuthorC.F.
ISBN0978972287
According to "The Comics Reporter," "If a reader were to pick up on any one cartoonist working at a furious and considered and accomplished pace right below the radar of most comics fans, C.F. might be the best choice." This first book by C.F. (also known in the East Coast underground music scene as Kites)...
Pogo: The Complete Syndicated Comic Strips, Vol. 1: Through the Wild Blue Wonder
AuthorWalt Kelly
ISBN1560978694
Kelly sure came out swinging right from the beginning. Though there are limitations and repetition here (Albert manages to swallow or seem to swallow quite a number of other creatures, for instance), the strip's greatness is evident pretty much from the jump. The art's expressive, complex, detailed,...
Maakies
AuthorTony Millionaire
ISBN1560973919
Tony Millionaire's comic strip Maakies is one of the most popular weekly comic strips in America, running in ten of the largest U.S. weekly newspapers, including the L.A. New Times and Seattle Stranger. This first collection, designed by Chip Kidd and Millionaire, reprints every strip from its 1994...
Graphic Witness: Four Wordless Graphic Novels
AuthorGeorge A. Walker
ISBN1554072700
"If you care about graphic novels, you need this book."
- New York Times best-selling author Neil Gaiman

Graphic Witness features rare wordless novels by four great 20th-century woodcut artists European and North American. The stories they tell reflect the political and social issues...
Four Color Fear: Forgotten Horror Comics of the 1950s
AuthorGreg Sadowski
ISBN1606993437
Of the myriad genres comic books ventured into during its golden age, none was as controversial as or came at a greater cost than horror; the public outrage it incited almost destroyed the entire industry. Yet before the watchdog groups and Congress could intercede, horror books were flying off the...
Kitaro
AuthorShigeru Mizuki
ISBN1770461108
Meet one of Japan's most popular characters of all time-Kitaro, the One-Eyed Monster Boy

Meet Kitaro. He's just like any other boy, except for a few small differences: he only has one eye, his hair is an antenna that senses paranormal activity, his geta sandals are jet-powered, and he can blend...
Nancy Is Happy: Complete Dailies, 1943–1945
AuthorErnie Bushmiller
ISBN1606993607
A funny thing happened on the way to comic-strip immortality. For many years, Ernie Bushmiller 's Nancy, with its odd-looking, squat heroine, nearly abstract art, and often super-corny gags, was perceived as the stodgiest, squarest comic strip in the world. Popular with newspaper readers, true...
Jack Kirby's Fourth World Omnibus, Vol. 3
AuthorJack Kirby
ISBN1401214851
After co-creating comic book heroes including The Fantastic Four and The Hulk, legendary writer/artist Jack Kirby came to DC Comics in 1970 to write and illustrate four interlocking series known collectively as The Fourth World. Now, for the first time, DC collects these four series -- The New Gods,...
Jack Cole and Plastic Man: Forms Stretched to Their Limits
AuthorArt Spiegelman
ISBN0811831795
Pulitzer Prize-winning writer and illustrator Art Spiegelman joins forces with designer Chip Kidd to pay homage to the comic book hero Plastic Man and his creator, Jack Cole. Plastic Man is more than just a putty face--with his bad-boy past, he literally embodies the comic book form: the exuberant...
The Squirrel Mother
AuthorMegan Kelso
ISBN1560977469
Kelso's work is characterized by subject matter that fits roughly into two disparate camps: personal and semi-autobiographical stories that draw heavily on the details of her childhood and adolescence, and stories about the idea of America and American history, such as a trilogy of short pieces...
Krazy and Ignatz, 1927-1928: Love Letters in Ancient Brick
AuthorGeorge Herriman
ISBN1560975075
This volume is one of a long-term plan to chronologically reprint strips from the prime of Herriman's career, most of which have not seen print since originally running in newspapers 75 years ago. Each volume is edited by the San Francisco Cartoon Art Museum's Bill Blackbeard, the world's foremost...
Curses
AuthorKevin Huizenga
ISBN1894937864
"One of the brightest, most interesting new comix authors to appear in the last five years." -Time.com Delving into mythology, belief, and spirituality,Kevin Huizenga's short stories are based on the lives of familiar characters confronting the textures of mortality in unique and sometimes...
Prison Pit, Vol. 2
AuthorJohnny Ryan
ISBN1606993836
2009's Prison Pit, Book One was an unadulterated smash hit upon its release at the 2009Comic-Con International, and the balls-to-the-wall series returns this summerwith more action and mayhem like only Johnny Ryan can deliver--again starringCF, the shirtless outer space barbarian antihero who...
The Boulevard of Broken Dreams
AuthorKim Deitch
ISBN0375421912
The newest addition to Pantheon's growing list of graphic novels: a visually beautiful, narratively intricate, and powerful book by one of the most original, and–until now–least recognized comic artists at work today.

The place is New York City in 1933. The setting: the Fontaine Talking...
God and Science: Return of the Ti-Girls
AuthorJaime Hernández
ISBN1606995391
Originally serialized in Love and Rockets New Stories, Ti-Girls Adventures managed to be both a rollickingly creative super-hero joyride (featuring three separate super-teams and over two dozen characters) that ranged from the other side of the universe to Maggie 's shabby apartment, and a genuinely...
The Hidden
AuthorRichard Sala
ISBN1606993860
This one feels like the most elaborate, strangely beautiful ghost-train ride you can imagine, created by a group of immensely talented, devoted, seriously deranged art-school students. Logic plays a marginal role at best. First you move through a post-apocalyptic landscape that echoes both German...
The Four Immigrants Manga: A Japanese Experience in San Francisco, 1904-1924
AuthorHenry (Yoshitaka) Kiyama
ISBN1880656337
History. Cartoons. Asian American Studies. Originally published in mixed Japanese and English in San Francisco in 1931, "The Four Immigrants Manga" is Henry Kiyama's visual chronicle of his immigrant experience in the United States. Drawn in a classic gag-strip comic-book style, this heartfelt...
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