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Hardcover. Kent OH, Kent State University Press, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 387 pages, b&w illustrations. Clean, unmarked in a bright dust jacket. The Lincoln images, originally appearing in such publications as Budget of Fun, Comic Monthly, New York Illustrated News, Phunny Phellow, Southern Punch, and Yankee Notions, significantly expand our understanding of the evolution of public opinion toward Lincoln, the complex dynamics of Civil War, popular art and culture, the media, political caricature, and presidential politics. Lincoln, appealed to illustrators because of his distinctive physical features. (One could scarcely conceive of a similar book on James Buchanan, his immediate predecessor.) Despite ever-improving techniques, Lincoln pictorial prominence competed favorably with any succeeding president in the nineteenth century.

Hardcover. Kent OH, Kent State University Press, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, The Lincoln images, originally appearing in such publications as Budget of Fun, Comic Monthly, New York Illustrated News, Phunny Phellow, Southern Punch, and Yankee Notions, significantly expand our understanding of the evolution of public opinion toward Lincoln, the complex dynamics of Civil War, popular art and culture, the media, political caricature, and presidential politics. Lincoln, appealed to illustrators because of his distinctive physical features. (One could scarcely conceive of a similar book on James Buchanan, his immediate predecessor.) Despite ever-improving techniques, Lincoln pictorial prominence competed favorably with any succeeding president in the nineteenth century. Historical illustrations throughout. 387 pages Including index.

Hardcover. Seattle, Fantagraphics Books, 1st, 2010, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 220 pages, color illustrations. A critical biography of Mort Meskin, one of the 20th century's most influential comic book artists. Clean copy in a bright dust jacket.

Hardcover. New York, Bulfinch, 1st, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 112 pages. 100 black and white illustrations. Faint yellowing to dust jacket top edge. Otherwise a very clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. People on every step of the corporate ladder will identify with the 100 hilarious business cartoons from New Yorker cartoonist Barsotti. / Charles Barsotti, formerly the cartoon editor of the The Saturday Evening Post, has been a staff cartoonist at the New Yorker since 1970. His work has also appeared in Playboy and Fast Company, among other publications.

Hardcover. New York, Bulfinch Press , 1st, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 108 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Tight copy. Illustrations/comics throughout in black and white by Charles Barsotti. Remainder mark on top page block.

Softcover. San Francisco , Apex Novelties, 1st, 1972, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, stapled, single-issue anthology underground comic created by Robert Crumb and a collection of other artists. Spiegelman's first appearance of Maus, his Pulitzer Prize winning graphic novel of the holocaust. SIGNED BY SPIEGELMAN on top page of his story. 7 x 10 comic book in color wraps with other art, cover by Crumb. Unique and rare.

Softcover. San Francisco, Rip Off Press, 1st, 1980, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover in pictorial color wraps, $2 cover price, 48 pages in b&w by Shelton. Clean, bright copy.

Softcover. San Francisco, Rip Off Press, 1st, 1980, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover in pictorial color wraps, $2 cover price, 48 pages in b&w by Shelton. Clean, bright copy.

Softcover. New York, Forge, 1st, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 237 pages. Softcover. A very clean, unmarked copy with only minor edgewear. Nearly 150 Gahan Wilson cartoons appear for the very first time anywhere in Gahan Wilson's Even Weirder. An additional 90 cartoons make their debut in book form, after initial publication in The New Yorker, Playboy and other magazines.

Hardcover. New York, Robert M. McBride & Company, 2nd Printing, 1945, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 128 pages. Hardcover. Black & white cartoons by Gardner Rea. Light foxing to preliminary pages. Clean, unmarked pages.

Hardcover. Dark Horse, 1st, 2014, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, large format, 128 pages in color. Dark Horse's first volume in a series that will collect all the Sunday pages of the classic newspaper strip, in chronological order! While the daily pages focused on a continuing narrative, creator Frank King reserved the Gasoline Alley Sunday strips for wonderful, inventive interludes in which Walt Wallet, and his adopted foundling son Skeezix, reflected upon the lessons of life and the beauty of nature. Reprinted in full color, using the King family's collection of proofs, this giant-sized volume collects every Gasoline Alley Sunday strip from 1920 through 1922.

Hardcover. San Diego, CA, IDW Publishing , 1st, 2012, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 318 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Clean, tight copy with only 4 small dings on spine edge.

Hardcover. Milwaukie WI, Dark Horse Books, 1st, 2014, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Volume 2. Like new in publisher's shrink-wrap. Presenting the second in a series that collects, in chronological order, all the Sunday pages of the celebrated newspaper strip! Discover the abundant wonder and dazzling beauty in the world--as seen through the eyes of creator Frank King and his beloved characters, Walt and Skeezix--in some of Gasoline Alley's most artistically imaginative art! Reprinted in full color, this giant-sized volume collects every Gasoline Alley Sunday strip from 1923 through 1925. Hardcover, 128 pages, 16 X 12".

Hardcover. Milwaukie WI, Dark Horse Books, 1st, 2014, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Volume 2. Like new in publisher's shrink-wrap. Presenting the second in a series that collects, in chronological order, all the Sunday pages of the celebrated newspaper strip! Discover the abundant wonder and dazzling beauty in the world--as seen through the eyes of creator Frank King and his beloved characters, Walt and Skeezix--in some of Gasoline Alley's most artistically imaginative art! Reprinted in full color, this giant-sized volume collects every Gasoline Alley Sunday strip from 1923 through 1925. Hardcover, 128 pages, 16 X 12". Due to size and weight, DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY.

Softcover. NY, Avon/Flare, 1st, 1985, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 137 pages. Black and white illustrations throughout. Introduction by Nat Hentoff.

Hardcover. NY, Pantheon, 1st, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 112 pages. This clever, satirical graphic novel reimagines the Flaubert classic Madame Bovary through contemporary mores and attitudes. Simmonds's unique approach includes the usual panels and balloons, but also voluminous amounts of text on each page. The result is a graphic novel that reads like an actual novel. Simmonds tells the story through the eyes of Raymond Joubert, a baker in Normandy. Gemma herself is a complex character--an unsatisfied young woman who marries Charlie Bovery, a lumpish carpenter, out of apparent boredom, and then persuades him to move from London to a farmhouse in Normandy, to escape his clinging ex-wife and two children. Here, the rather unlikable Gemma begins to come into focus, her loneliness and isolation leading to her affair. Joubert, who mixes genuine concern with denial about his voyeurism, is convinced Gemma's headed down the same tragic path as Flaubert's original. Since we learn in the first paragraph that Gemma is dead, the question is who will be responsible for her demise. Simmonds's art recalls the elegance of New Yorker cartoonists mingled with the goth charm of Edward Gorey (Gemma herself is all restlessly darting pinpoint pupils).

Hardcover. NY, Taschen, 1st, 2025, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial boards, A color facsimile of the complete pages of George Herriman's Krazy Kat 1935-44. One of the first comics to be considered a work of art, Krazy Kat delights with its characterization and visual-verbal creativity alongside the slapstick shenanigans between Krazy and Ignatz the mouse. This book comes with an illustrated introduction by Alexander Braun. The premise is simple: a black cat loves scheming a white mouse who incessantly throws bricks at the cat's head, which police dog Officer Pupp, secretly harboring a passionate love for the cat, tries to prevent. George Herriman endlessly plays with the above formula in his legendary newspaper strip Krazy Kat, published from 1913 until his death in 1944. Clean, bright copy, still in publisher's shrinkwrap.

Hardcover. NY, Golden Press, 2nd pr., 1974, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Color illustrations by Greg and Tim Hildebrandt, known as the Brothers Hildebrandt. They were American twin brothers who worked collaboratively as fantasy and science fiction artists for many years, produced illustrations for comic books, movie posters, children's books, posters, novels, calendars, advertisements, and trading cards. Light edgewear.

Softcover. NY, DC Comics, 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, stapled wraps, 32 pages, 15 cents cover price. Mild wear.

Softcover. San Francisco, Chronicle Books, 1st, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 121 pages, 175 b&w cartoons by Lorenz that ran in the 1980s. Illustrated wraps.

Hardcover. NY, powerHouse Books, 1st, 2012, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, illustrated boards with "bullet holes". 144 pages. Golden Age Western Comics lovingly reproduces in full-color, restored, complete scans of 20 of the best Western stories--plus a few pin-ups--created between the years 1948 and 1956. These lavishly illustrated stories of guts and glory, violence and valor, intrigue, romance, and betrayal, on the range and in lawless frontier towns, were created by some of the best artists and writers of the era. The action flies off the page in stories such as "The Tragedy at Massacre Pass," and "Breakout in rondo Prison," from the greatest earliest publishing houses, including: Fawcett, Charlton, Avon, Youthful, and more. Like new,

Hardcover. Brooklyn. NY, Powerhouse Books, 1st, 2012, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 144 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Color comics throughout. Clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. New York, Harper & Row, 1st, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 124 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Light soil to covers. Black and white illustrations by various artist. Tight copy.

Softcover. Chicago, Good Taste Products, 2nd pr., 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 87 pages, softcover with color illustrated wrappers. B&w comic art by O'Connell. Attention cocktail crowd! Looking at Mitch O'Connell's illustrations is like appreciating a dry martini: clean, crisp, retro. And you can almost smell the hair spray from all those beehive hairdos in this book. Good Taste Gone Bad is a collection of the best O'Connell illustrations, designs and comics. Be hip. Buy this book.