Walt and Skeezix: Book 2 1923-1924
by: King, Frank

Hardcover. Montreal, Drawn and Quarterly, 1st, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 352 pages. Extensive b&w illustrations throughout. Illustrated paste downs and end papers. Gilt titles on spine. Blind stamp on cover. Some edge wear to dust jacket, otherwise clean, tight copy. Reprints the original newspaper dailies from 1923 & 1924. King was the first cartoonist to have his characters age in real time and have modern story lines, a landmark conception for comic strips in the early twentieth century. There is a new eighty-page introduction by journalist Jeet Heer.