Pogo: The Complete Syndicated Comic Strips, Vol. 1: Through the Wild Blue Wonder
10 best books like Pogo: The Complete Syndicated Comic Strips, Vol. 1: Through the Wild Blue Wonder (Walt Kelly): Mickey Mouse, Vol. 1: Race to Death Valley, Krazy Kat: The Comic Art of George Herriman, Art Out of Time: Unknown Comics Visionaries, 1900-1969, Maakies, Four Color Fear: Forgotten Horror Comics of the 1950s, The World of Chas Addams, Popeye, Vol. 1: I Yam What I Yam!, The Horror! The Horror!: Comic Books the Government Didn't Want You to Read!, The Complete Peanuts, 1950-1954, Walt Disney's Donald Duck: Lost in the Andes
| Author | Floyd Gottfredson |
| ISBN | 1606994417 |
Today everyone knows Mickey Mouse as the cheerful ambassador of
all things Disney. But back in the 1930s, Mickey gained fame as a rough-and-tumble, two-fisted epic hero — an adventurous
scrapper matching wits with mobsters, kidnappers, spies, and even (gulp!) city slickers! And Mickey’s...
Krazy Kat: The Comic Art of George Herriman
| Author | George Herriman |
| ISBN | 0810991853 |
This book is great, especially for the student of comics history, interested in comics origins. Herriman is one of the greats, one you have to know, who did a lot of comics over the years, but is best known for Krazy Kat, begun as a strip in 1913, and championed and funded by no less a comics sugar daddy than...
| Author | Dan Nadel |
| ISBN | 0810958384 |
Most of these are simply not interesting to read. This is especially true when many of the comics are not printed so that the writing is reasonable. Also some of the art is designed in a way so that the writing is hard to read even when zoomed in.
But a couple are real gems. . . . In particular, "Herbie."...
| Author | Tony Millionaire |
| ISBN | 1560973919 |
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...
| Author | Greg Sadowski |
| ISBN | 1606993437 |
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...
This is almost 400 pages of a cartoon from the sunday comics section of the paper. Each page has a picture and it may have a line underneath or not. Most of these are in black and white and about half of them are the Addams family characters. It is from his career; the 1930s to the 1970s.
Charles has...
Popeye, Vol. 1: I Yam What I Yam!
| Author | E.C. Segar |
| ISBN | 1560977795 |
Fantagraphics' Popeye series will collect the complete run of Segar's Thimble Theatre comic strip (dailies and color Sundays) featuring Popeye, re-establishing Segar as one of the first rank of cartoonists who have elevated the comic strip to art. He was the most popular cartoonist of his day, his...
The Horror! The Horror!: Comic Books the Government Didn't Want You to Read!
| Author | Jim Trombetta |
| ISBN | 0810955954 |
The Horror! The Horror! uncovers a rare treasury of some of the most important and neglected stories in American literature—the pre-Code horror comics of the 1950s. These outrageous comic book images, censored by Congress in an infamous televised U.S. Senate subcommittee investigating juvenile...
The Complete Peanuts, 1950-1954
| Author | Charles M. Schulz |
| ISBN | 1560976322 |
A boxed set of the first two volumes, just in time for the holidays, designed by the Award-winning graphic novelist, Seth! Ships shrinkwrapped. The first volume, The Complete Peanuts 1950-1952, covers the first two and a quarter years of the strip (October 1950 through December 1952), and will be of...
Walt Disney's Donald Duck: Lost in the Andes
| Author | Carl Barks |
| ISBN | 1606994743 |
Carl Barks Donald Duck and Uncle Scrooge comics are considered among the greatest artistic and storytelling achievements in the history of the medium. After serving a stint at the Walt Disney studios as an in-betweener and a gag-man, Barks began drawing the comic book adventures of Donald Duck in 1942....
The Bloom County Library, Vol. 4: 1986-1987
| Author | Berkeley Breathed |
| ISBN | 1600108997 |
Book Four of Berkeley Breathed's Eisner Award-winning series and New York Times best-seller features some of the most fondly remembered Bloom County cartoons, both from a humor standpoint and from a biting, political one. This is the period for which Breathed won a Pulitzer Prize, the highest award...
| Author | Richard Thompson |
| ISBN | 0740776517 |
"I hope you enjoy Cul de Sac as much as I do. I think you're in for a real treat." --Bill Watterson, creator of Calvin and Hobbes, 2008
"One of the five best features in any newspaper, period." --The Comics Reporter
"One of the few strips around where nearly every individual panel is stand-alone...
| Author | Winsor McCay |
| ISBN | 3822863009 |
Little Nemo: 1905-1914 contains every Little Nemo newspaper strip from its prime era.
I first encountered Little Nemo in a NES game about a thousand years ago. Since then, everyone from Bill Watterson to Moebius cites him as an influence. I found this on the cheap and decided to dive in.
First...
The Complete Cartoons of The New Yorker
| Author | Robert Mankoff |
| ISBN | 1579123228 |
The book that Janet Maslin of The New York Times has called "indispensable" and "a transfixing study of American mores and manners that happens to incorporate boundless laughs, too" is finally available in paperback—fully updated and featuring a brand new introduction by Adam Gopnik.
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