Hardcover. Canada, Disney Editions, 1st, 2017, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, There are nine flip books inside this box that pays tribute to Disney's early animators. Legendary animators Ub Iwerks, Norm Ferguson, Billl Tytla, Ham Luske, Art Babbitt, Grim Gatwick, Freddie Moore, Hal King, and John Sibley are featured in this special set. Each flipbook features a scene from an animated Disney feature in its original line-drawn form, having been selected from among a wide range of films for great movement and classic characters.
Hardcover. Seattle WA , Fantagraphics, 1st, 2015, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 191 pages. Hardcover. Extensive color illustrations by Don Rosa throughout. Includes appendix of color comic book covers by Don Rosa. Clean, tight copy in excellent condition. Uncle Scrooge, the world's richest duck, knows exactly where he got every coin he ever earned. And in this fourth book of Duck epics by Don Rosa, that story begins to unfold at last! Relive Scrooge's Scottish boyhood as Last of the Clan McDuck,then his teenage years as Master of the Mississippi on Uncle Pothole's steamboat! Witness Scrooge's first fights with the Beagle Boys and Flintheart Glomgold and in a bonus chapter, his earliest meeting with Magica De Spell! Presented with brilliant color and a treasure trove of Rosa's cover art and behind-the-scenes factoids, these Duckburg epics are back in a definitive, comprehensive edition.
Hardcover. Seattle, Fantagraphics, 1st, 2021, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, illustrated boards, 208 pages illustrated in color by Carl Barks. A loony balloon, a fraidy falcon, and a new Woodchuck series! Carl Barks delivers another superb collection of outrageous hijinks, preposterous puzzlements, and all-around comics brilliance. Carl Barks's stories of the Junior Woodchucks starring Huey, Dewey, and Louie - written and penciled by Barks with finishes by internationally acclaimed Duck artist Daan Jippes - debut in this volume! Other stories include: When Gyro Gearloose invents a ten-story-tall Donald Duck balloon - bigger than anything ever seen at the Macy's Parade! - Donald decides to take a ride. But Gyro's "new balloon gas" is stronger than he thought it was, and Donald finds himself out of control, sailing higher and higher, until...Then, Huey, Dewey, and Louie try to help a "fraidy falcon" overcome his fear of flying by getting Donald to help, but Donald has his own ideas... Next, somebody's blowing up experimental rockets at the launchpad, and the nephews are on the trail of the spy, but Donald's sure of who it's not - until he finds himself on board the next rocket to blast-off...
Hardcover. Seattle, Fantagraphics Books, 1st, 2024, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial boards, 215 pages in color. From the Everglades to the Grand Canyon, danger and intrigue at every turn! Carl Barks' first foray into his signature series of adventures in lost civilizations takes the Ducks deep into the Everglades, where they find themselves bedeviled by the enigmatic Gneezles, who have escaped detection from outsiders since the days of Ponce de Leon - and want to keep it that way. The fun comes fast and furious as Donald invents a radar detector to track the nephews, the boys open their own detective agency, an ice-skating race, a water-skiing race, the nephews fall into the Grand Canyon, and Donald decides to build the largest kite in the world! Plus: Barks's only Mickey Mouse mystery, Mickey Mouse and Riddle of the Red Hat. Clean copy.
Hardcover. Seattle, Fantagraphics, 1st, 2025, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover in pictorial boards. Carl Barks' very first Donald Duck stories! This is where it all started, as Carl Barks took control of Donald Duck's comic book adventures and began a series of clever, creative, complex, and comedic stories that would continue under his cartooning brilliance for more than 20 years -- and guarantee his place in comics history. Volume 1 in The Complete Carl Barks Disney Library is, naturally, filled with firsts: Barks' first comic book story (starring Pluto), the first Donald Duck story created for an American comic book (and also the first to see Donald and his nephews go on a treasure hunt), Barks' first Donald 10-pager, Barks' first truly solo Donald Duck story, and Barks' first solo longer-form Donald Duck adventure ("The Mummy's Ring"). More than 200 pages of story and art, each meticulously restored and newly colored, Clean, bright copy.
Hardcover. Seattle, Fantagraphics, 1st, 2012, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 240 pages, color illustrations. Anchored by the Dickensian "A Christmas for Shacktown," this volume collects the universally beloved comics adventures of Donald Duck, his nephews Huey, Dewey and Louie, and his Uncle Scrooge.
Hardcover. Seattle, Fantagraphics, 1st, 2011, Hardcover, 240 pages, color illustrations. After serving a stint at the Walt Disney Studios, Carl Barks began drawing the comic-book adventures of Donald Duck in 1942. He alternated between longish, sprawling 20- or 30-page adventure yarns filled with the romance of danger, courage, and derring-do, whose exotic locales spanned the globe, and shorter stories that usually revolved around crazily ingenious domestic squabbles between Donald and members of the Duckburg cast. Highlights include: o The title story, "Lost in the Andes" (Barks's own favorite). Donald and the nephews embark on an expedition to Peru to find where square eggs come from only to meet danger in a mysterious valley whose inhabitants all speak with a southern drawl, and where Huey, Dewey, and Louie save Unca' Donald's life by learning how to blow square bubbles! o Two stories co-starring the unbearably lucky Gladstone, including the epic "Race to the South Seas," as Donald and Gladstone try to win Uncle Scrooge's favor by being the first to rescue him from a desert island. o Two Christmas stories, including "The Golden Christmas Tree," one of Barks's most fantastic stories that pits him and the nephews against a witch who wants to destroy all the Christmas trees in the world.
Hardcover. Seattle, Fantagraphics Books, 1st, 2023, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial boards. Through a series of trade-ups, the nephews turn Donald's old pencil stub into -- a steamship ticket to India! Off they go, and Donald is soon declared to be "Maharajah Donald" -- but there's a catch! Then, Donald accidentally buys a houseboat at an auction that leads to an encounter with a giant sea serpent! Next, "Santa's Stormy Visit," a Christmas story with none of the trimmings -- no man in a red suit, no snow (but a tropical hurricane!), no presents under the tree (no tree!) But still a charming holiday tale. And don't miss "Donald Duck's Atom Bomb!"As we circle back to Carl Barks's earlier stories, the Good Duck Artist delivers another superb collection of surprise, delight, comedy, adventure, and all-around cartooning brilliance. 193 pages of story and art, each meticulously restored and newly colored. Insightful story notes by an international panel of Barks experts. Clean copy.
Hardcover. Seattle, WA, Fantagraphics, 1st, 2016, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 232 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to covers.
Hardcover. Seattle, Wa, Fantagraphics Books, 1st, 2016, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 242 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. A very clean, unmarked copy. Color illustrations throughout by Carl Barks. Uncle Scrooge sends Donald and the nephews to the jungle; the nephews solve a Western ghost mystery; and there are 10,000 hungry baby turkeys to deliver.Donald and his nephews visit an Old West ghost town that was suddenly abandoned when the sheriff vanished while in hot pursuit of a passel of outlaws. Now the remains of the town are haunted - and it's up to the plucky nephews to solve the mystery of "The Ghost Sheriff of Last Gasp" before it's too late! Then, Donald is made stationmaster for a tiny out-of-the-way railroad station, but his first delivery is 10,000 baby turkeys - and they're all hungry! And when the Coast Guard announces it found the wreck of a steamship that sank with Uncle Scrooge's gold on board, the race is on to recover it ahead of Scrooge's rivals. Scrooge hustles Donald and the nephews into his private submarine - but it's Christmas Eve, and the boys are afraid Santa won't be able to find them to deliver their presents. The boys appeal to Uncle Scrooge, but - well, his name is Scrooge.Plus lots more stories with Barks favorites, including the wacky inventor Gyro Gearloose, the irritatingly lucky Gladstone Gander, and the ever-glamorous and sensible Daisy Duck. Carl Barks delivers another superb collection of outrageous hijinks, preposterous situations, and all-around cartooning brilliance. Over 200 pages of stories, each meticulously restored and newly colored. Insightful story notes by an international panel of Barks experts. Full-color illustrations throughout.
Hardcover. Seattle, Wa, Fantagraphics Books, 1st, 2016, Book: Very Good, 242 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. A very clean, unmarked copy. Color illustrations throughout by Carl Barks. Donald and his nephews visit an Old West ghost town that was suddenly abandoned when the sheriff vanished while in hot pursuit of a passel of outlaws. Now the remains of the town are haunted - and it's up to the plucky nephews to solve the mystery of "The Ghost Sheriff of Last Gasp" before it's too late! Then, Donald is made stationmaster for a tiny out-of-the-way railroad station, but his first delivery is 10,000 baby turkeys - and they're all hungry! And when the Coast Guard announces it found the wreck of a steamship that sank with Uncle Scrooge's gold on board, the race is on to recover it ahead of Scrooge's rivals. Scrooge hustles Donald and the nephews into his private submarine - but it's Christmas Eve, and the boys are afraid Santa won't be able to find them to deliver their presents. The boys appeal to Uncle Scrooge, but - well, his name is Scrooge.Plus lots more stories with Barks favorites, including the wacky inventor Gyro Gearloose, the irritatingly lucky Gladstone Gander, and the ever-glamorous and sensible Daisy Duck. Carl Barks delivers another superb collection of outrageous hijinks, preposterous situations, and all-around cartooning brilliance. Over 200 pages of stories, each meticulously restored and newly colored. Insightful story notes by an international panel of Barks experts. Clean, bright copy.
Hardcover. Tucson AZ, HP Books, 1st, 1985, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 96 pages. A pictorial biography of one of Disney's most popular creations. Color and b&w illustrations, filmography and bibliography. Clean in a bright dust jacket.
Hardcover. Seattle, Fantagraphics, 1st, 2017, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 302 pages. Black and white comic strips, light edgewear to spine edges, otherwise clean, tight copy. This climactic book of Gottfredson serials also finds Mickey plagued by Uncle Gudger, the one-man circus-and Gilhooley, the pitiless king of the leprechauns! Floyd Gottfredson and co-writer Bill Walsh infect Mouseton with the super-hi-tech of the Sputnik era.
Hardcover. Seattle, Fantagraphics, 1st, 2012, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 280 pages. Our big-eared hero is back with more edge-of-your-seat adventures: traveling from Umbrellastan to Texas - and duking it out with villains like Dr. Vulter, Pegleg Pete, and malicious miser Eli Squinch! In this volume, you'll saddle up for Gottfredson's two most famous Wild West epics: a "Race for Riches" amid rockslides and rustlers, then a dead-shot showdown with the brutal "Bat Bandit!" Back home in Mouseton, the mayhem continues when Mickey, Donald, and Goofy run a crime-fighting newspaper - and face trouble with mobsters and speeding black sedans!
Hardcover. Taschen, 1st thus, 2020, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. On November 18, 1928, the world's most famous Mouse made his very first public debut. Today, we celebrate 90+ years of Mickey in one of the most expansive illustrated publications on the Disney universe. Starting with the first sketches of a character who was almost named Mortimer, we trace the career of Walt Disney's and Ub Iwerks's most famous creation, one met with an explosion of worldwide popularity preceded only by the earlier successes of Charlie Chaplin.With unlimited access to Disney's vast historical collections as well as public and private collections, the authors bring Mickey's success story to life: concept art, story sketches, background paintings, and animation drawings as well as historical photographs trace the origins and evolution of such timeless favorites as Steamboat Willie, The Band Concert, and Brave Little Tailor. They also follow Mickey as he builds on this legendary library of short cartoons by appearing in two historic feature-length films, Fantasia and Fun and Fancy Free.Extensive archival research sheds new light on little-known chapters of Mickey's career, the origins of the Mickey Mouse Club, and his use as a patriotic icon during World War II. Along the way, we encounter the work of all major Mickey artists in both film and comics, including such greats as Ub Iwerks, Win Smith, Ferdinand Horvath, Fred Moore, Floyd Gottfredson, Carl Barks, Manuel Gonzales, Paul Murry, Romano Scarpa, Giorgio Cavazzano, Byron Erickson, and Cesar Ferioli.Mickey Mouse has left an indelible mark on everyday culture as well as high art, becoming a favored subject for Pop artists such as Andy Warhol, Keith Haring, and Roy Lichtenstein.
Hardcover. Seattle, Fantagraphics, 1st, 2013, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 280 pages. The burgeoning popularity of Mickey Mouse on the screen and in the daily newspaper comics made the 1932 addition of a full-color Sunday strip inevitable. The first surprise in this collection of the initial four years of Sunday installments is that in this early color incarnation, Mickey's face was pink rather than white! But, more significantly, each Sunday strip comprised about a dozen panels, not the measly four panels of the dailies, permitting a different pace: gags could be extended longer, and story lines unwound at their leisure. Unlike the dailies, which featured stories that went on for weeks, the Sundays mixed serialized adventures--in this volume, Mickey visits the Wild West, fights a giant in a fairy tale he tells his nephews, and scales a mountain to win a $1,000 prize--with single-episode gag strips, all drawn in a charmingly old-fashioned style. The high-spirited, adventure-seeking mouse in these vintage strips--a far cry from today's bland, domesticated version--makes it clear why Mickey captivated Depression-era America.
NY, Abbeville Press, 2nd pr., 1978, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 204 pages with 11 full color Mickey Mouse comic stories from the 1930s. Artwork and Introduction by Floyd Gottfredson. Bright yellow dust jacket featuring Mickey has some fading on spine.
Hardcover. US, Disney Editions, 1st, 2013, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 1408 pages. 9 Hardcover flipbooks in fabric covered box. Like new in publisher's shrink-wrap. Flipbooks feature tribute to original animators: Les Clark, Eric Larson, Frank Thomas, John Lounsbery, Ward Kimball, Ollie Johnston, Marc Davis, Wolfgang Reitherman, and Milt Kahl. Each flipbook features a scene from an animated Disney feature in its original line-drawn form, having been selected from among a wide range of films for great movement and classic characters.
Seattle, Fantagraphics, 1st, 2023, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial boards, oblong format, color illustrations throughout. 1932 saw the launch of Disney's second-ever original comic strip, the full-color weekly Silly Symphonies, and with it came the debut of Bucky Bug, a daring, rhyming, mischievous squirt whose escapades took him from brutal birds of prey to the terrifying trenches of the Great Flyburg War! With his brave lady friend June and bumpkin pal Bo, Bucky even travels to a mixed-up Mother Goose Land... where a not-so-merry Old King Cole has mayhem on his mind!In this Disney reprint collection, readers can follow all of Bucky's adventures and the Symphonies Sunday sagas that followed, which also includes Donald Duck's debut as the barnyard's spoilt brat in "The Wise Little Hen"... and further tales of golden age Silly Symphony cartoon stars: egotistical Max Hare, slow-but-sure Toby Tortoise, and that awful bandit Dirty Bill (who "never took a bath, and he never will!").
Hardcover. Prescott, AZ, Gladstone Publishing Ltd., 1st, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Unpaginated. Hardcover with dust jacket. Fortieth anniversary edition of Uncle Scrooge compilation. With storybook paintings by Norman McGary and commentary by Geoffrey Blum. Black covers with gilt lettering on front and spine. Small abrasion to rear bottom spine edge, otherwise unmarked, clean and tight copy with light wear to dust jacket.
Hardcover. UK, PS Publishing, 1st, 2014, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 240 pages, illustrated throughout in color and b&w. Light shelf-wear to boards, else a clean, tight copy.
Softcover. Berkelry CA, Last Gasp, 1st, 1984, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover First Edition R. Crumb color front cover, 8 page b&w strip by R. Crumb, Mode O'day. Other b&w strips.
Softcover. Berkeley CA, Last Gasp, 1st, 1983, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 44 pages, created by Robert Crumb, his wife Aline, and others; with a color front and rear cover by Crumb, work entitled Uncle Bob's Mid-Life Crisis (eight pages), Robert Williams, a photo piece called Slaves Of The Comicbook Factory, Jeff John, Trashman by the legendary Spain, Dori Seda, C.P.Grimsley, and others; this true first printing, in stapled wrappers.
Softcover. Berkeley CA, Last Gasp, 1st, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover First Edition. The Winter, 1986-87 issue of this comics series created by Robert Crumb, his wife Aline, and others; this issue features a wonderful, full color cover by Crumb, and contributors such as Mark Zingarelli, Kim Deitch, Stephen Calt, Frank Stack, S.Clay Wilson, Penny Moran, a superb, five page story by Robert Crumb, entitled Mother Hulda, and a wonderful letter from Harvey Pekar; this copy is very good plus in stapled wrappers .
Softcover. Berkeley CA, Last Gasp, 1st, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover The Summer, 1982 issue of the famed Weirdo comics series, created by Robert Crumb, his wife Aline and others, featuring a beautiful, color collage front cover with a border of "girlie" photos and a full color rear drawing by Aline Kominsky Crumb; contributors include Terry Boyce, Norman Dog, a fabulous, four page piece by Robert, entitled Trash:What Do We Throw Away, a funny 4-page, photo piece called Untamed Passion For Pasta, Jeff John, Fried Nuts by Robert, and a terrific Drew Friedman piece called Joe Franklin Is A Dream Walkin' and Old Bud Abbott, also by Drew; a wonderful issue, this is the true first printing, in stapled wrappers.
Softcover. Berkeley CA, Last Gasp, 1st, 1981, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover unpaginated, [44 pages including covers], glossy color wraps, $2.25 cover price, b/w interior. Contributors include D. Worden, Dori Seda, Robert Armstrong, Drew Friedman, Elinore Nofflus, Terry Boyce, Kaz, Tom Bertino, B.N. Duncan, Jay Kinney reporting on the First Annula World SubGenius Convention, R. Crumb's "I Remember the Sixties." Photo-illustrated stories featuring Crumb in "Beauty and the Pest" and with wife Aline Kominsky-Crumb in "The Unfaithful Husband and La Malisma Tentadora!." Saddle stapled, magazine sized comic book.
Hardcover. New York, Pantheon, 1st, 1980, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover with a lightly worn, unclipped dust jacket. SIGNED BY KOREN on title-page. A collection of his New Yorker drawings.
Hardcover. NY, Bloomsbury, 1st, 2011, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 64 pages. "In this neurotic spin on the classic alphabet book, longtime New Yorker staff cartoonist Chast shares a few of her least favorite things, with each letter suggesting a horror that you may never have even considered worrying about before: G for general anesthesia, K for kites, S for spontaneous human combustion, V for vision loss... Chast's funny, fuzzy-lined drawings make even the most mundane object send chills of unease down your spine... hypochondriacs and fans of Chast's twisted sense of humor will especially rejoice." -Library Journal
Hardcover. Montreal, Drawn and Quarterly, 1st, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, pages. How do objects summon memories? What do real images feel like? For decades, these types of questions have permeated the pages of Lynda Barry's compositions, with words attracting pictures and conjuring places through a pen that first and foremost keeps on moving. What It Is demonstrates a tried-and-true creative method that is playful, powerful, and accessible to anyone with an inquisitive wish to write or to remember. Composed of completely new material, each page of Barry's first Drawn & Quarterly book is a full-color collage that is not only a gentle guide to this process but an invigorating example of exactly what it is: "The ordinary is extraordinary."
Softcover. Kansas City, Andrews McMeel Publishing, 1st, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 176 pages. Softcover. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to wrappers. Oliphant's cartoon talents are marvelously displayed in this satire of the past year's news events. It's a hilarious look at life and the scandals that shape our political environs. Pulitzer Prize winner.
Hardcover. New York, E.P. Dutton, 1st, 1954, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, Hardcover, yellow boards stamped in black. Light edgewear, o/w very good. The wonderful world of 1950s cartoons! A "carnival" of cartoons compiled by This Week magazine editors, including work by Bil Keane, Chon Day, Ronald Searle, Ton Smits, Charles Pearson. Gives brief bios of some of the cartoonists with photos. Dust jacket worn, tape repairs.
Hardcover. New York, Harper and Brothers, 1st, 1961, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 146 pages. A collection of Mauldin's political cartoons from the late 50s and early 1960s. Dust jacket with light wear, price-clipped.
Hardcover. NY, Bloomsbury Publishing, 2nd pr., 2021, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial boards with orange cloth spine. 232 pages. From the prize-winning author of The Three Escapes of Hannah Arendt, a stunning graphic narrative of newly discovered stories from Jewish teens on the cusp of WWII.When I Grow Up is New Yorker cartoonist Ken Krimstein's new graphic nonfiction book, based on six of hundreds of newly discovered, never-before-published autobiographies of Eastern European Jewish teens on the brink of WWII-found in 2017 hidden in a Lithuanian church cellar. These autobiographies, long thought destroyed by the Nazis, were written as entries for three competitions held in Eastern Europe in the 1930s, just before the horror of the Holocaust forever altered the lives of the young people who wrote them.
Softcover. UK, PS Artbooks, reprint, 2024, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, pictorial wrappers. A facsimile reprint from 1941, 68 pages. Color art by C.C. Beck, Pete Costanza, Charles Sultan, Binder Studio et al. Another classic pre-war issue of Fawcett's #1 title, where Captain Marvel and all these other characters got their start. CM goes after a Nazi commander to rescue Whitey and Mr. Morris. Classic cover! Back-up strips include Doctor Voodoo, Ibis, Golden Arrow, Spy Smasher, Lance O'Casey.
Softcover. UK, PS Artbooks, reprint, 2024, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, pictorial wrappers. A facsimile reprint from 1940, 68 pages. Color art by C.C. Beck, Pete Costanza et al. The origin and first adventures of Captain Marvel (issue #1 was an ashcan). Young Billy Batson discovers the magical word that transforms him into the mighty Captain Marvel. Includes the first appearance of these back-up strip stars, most who would get their own title: Spy Smasher, Ibis, Golden Arrow, Dan Dare, Scoop Smith and Lance O'Casey. First appearance of arch villain Sivana. Clean, like new.
Softcover. PS Artbooks, reprint, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 64 pages. From December, 1941. Art by Mac Raboy, C. C. Beck et al. A key issue, with Captain Nazi jumping over from the pages of Master Comics to fight CM and it all brings about, right here, the origin of Captain Marvel, Jr. Capt. Nazi attacks a young boy and leaves him crippled, which can't be reversed. But CM goes to his mentor Shazam and agrees to give some of his power to the boy, so that when Freddy says "Captain Marvel" he turns into the super-powered Captain Marvel, Jr. CM then sends him back to Master Comics (yes, really) to aid Bulletman in his own battle with Captain Nazi. All of this is part of a 3-part origin story. CM Jr. immediately became the long running cover feature of Master Comics.
Hardcover. Jackson MS, University Press of Mississippi, 1st, 2014, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 240 pages. Like new in publisher's shrink-wrap. Cartoonist Winsor McCay (1869-1934) is rightfully celebrated for the skillful draftmanship and inventive design sense he displayed in the comic strips Little Nemo in Slumberland and Dream of the Rarebit Fiend. McCay crafted narratives of anticipation, abundance, and unfulfilled longing. This book explores McCay's interest in dream imagery in relation to the larger preoccupation with fantasy that dominated the popular culture of early twentieth-century urban America.McCay's role as a pioneer of early comics has been documented; yet, no existing study approaches him and his work from an art historical perspective, giving close readings of individual artworks while situating his output within the larger visual culture and the rise of modernism. From circus posters and vaudeville skits to department store window displays and amusement park rides, McCay found fantastical inspiration in New York City's burgeoning entertainment and retail districts. Wide Awake in Slumberland connects McCay's work to relevant children's literature, advertising, architecture, and motion pictures in order to demonstrate the artist's sophisticated blending and remixing of multiple forms from mass culture. Studying this interconnection in McCay's work and, by extension, the work of other early twentieth-century cartoonists, Roeder traces the web of relationships connecting fantasy, leisure, and consumption. Readings of McCay's drawings and the eighty-one black and white and color illustrations reveal a man who was both a ready participant and an incisive critic of the rising culture of fantasy and consumerism.
Hardcover. New York, Bloomsbury, 1st US , 2010, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 359 pages, hardcover. 16 pages of color illustrations. Extensive b&w illustrations and photographs. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.
Hardcover. New York, DC Comics, 1st, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 216 pages in color. Like new in publisher's shrink-wrap. The Spirit returns for the third volume in this archival series! In it, Will Eisner's classic crimefighter of the 1940s continues to face off against enemy agents on the homefront. This volume includes an appearance by the sultry Silk Satin, as well as the Spirit's developing relationship with Police Commissioner Dolan and his beautiful daughter Ellen.
Hardcover. Milwaukee, OR, Dark Horse Books, 2nd Ed., 2016, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, no dust jacket. Like new in publisher's shrink-wrap.
Hardcover. NC, TwoMorrows Publishing, 2nd printing, 2015, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 254 pages. Hardcover no dust jacket. Clean, unmarked copy in excellent condition. Color and black and white illustrations. Explores the fascinating life of Will Eisner , detailing a more than 70-year career in which he spearheaded comics for adult readers and created the first widely accepted graphic novel, A Contract with God.
Hardcover. NY, Abrams, 1st, 2015, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 220 pages. Will Eisner (1917-2005) is universally considered the master of comics storytelling, best known for The Spirit, his iconic newspaper comic strip, and A Contract With God, the first significant graphic novel. This seminal work from 1978 ushered in a new era of personal stories in comics form that touched every adult topic from mortality to religion and sexuality, forever changing the way writers and artists approached comics storytelling. Noted historian Paul Levitz celebrates Eisner by showcasing his most famous work along-side unpublished and rare materials from the family archives. Also included are original interviews with creators such as Jules Feiffer, Art Spiegelman, Scott McCloud, Jeff Smith, Denis Kitchen, and Neil Gaiman--all of whom knew Eisner and were inspired by his work to create their own graphic novels for a new generation of readers.
Hardcover. Montreal, Drawn and Quarterly, 1st, 2010, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. Excellent copy of the First Edition, First Printing of this graphic novel in which Daniel Clowes presents scenes from the life of an awkward, crabby non-hero named Wilson. 77 pages, illustrated. No dust jacket issued.
Hardcover. UK, PS Publishing, 1st, 2013, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 288 pages, illustrated throughout in color and b&w. Light shelf-wear to boards, else a clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. UK, PS Publishing, 1st, 2013, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 233 pages, illustrated throughout in color and b&w. Light shelf-wear to boards, else a clean, tight copy. Collects October 1952-October 1953, Issues 15-21.
Hardcover. New York, United Publishers, 1st, 1945, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Non-paginated. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Cartoon illustrations in black and white. Previous owner's name on front fly leaf, otherwise clean, tight copy with moderate fraying to cover edges.