Softcover. Seattle, Fantagraphics, 1st, 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 120 pages. A quarterly anthology of literary comics. This volume premieres the first chapter of "At Loose Ends" by Lewis Trondheim, an autobiographical diary comic that portrays Trondheim at a crossroads: after reaching the height of commercial success in middle age, how does he stay true to himself as an artist and not become a hack? Plus all-new work from Russ Manning, Jonathan Bennett and R. Kikuo Johnson, as well as Tim Hensley, Jeffrey Brown, David Heatley, Paul Hornschemeier, Anders Nilsen, Sophie Crumb, Martin Cendreda and Gabrielle Bell.

Hardcover. Montreal, Drawn and Quarterly, 1st, 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover with pictorial boards. No dj issued. In the second volume of Tove Jansson's humorous yet melancholic Moomin comic strip, we get four new stories about jealousy, competition, child rearing, and self-reinvention. The Moomins try to hibernate in the fashion of their ancestors but insomnia places them smack-dab into a winter carnival with the winter-sports-loving Mr. Brisk. The fickle and eternally lovestruck Mymble and Snorkmaiden find themselves in competition over a thrilling new man. Moominmamma meets her new neighbor, the Fillyjonk, causing her to hire the depressed and secretive Misabel as her new maid. Mymble's mother arrives on the Moomin family's doorstep with her seventeen new children. Finally, a prophet arrives on the scene declaring that the happy Moomins are in fact not happy at all and need to get back to nature and be free. Moomin, of course, becomes more and more miserable the freer he gets.

Hardcover. Seattle, Fantagraphics, 1st, 2016, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 184 pages. This is the sequel to caricaturist Drew Friedman's collection of portraits of famous comics creators.Spanning the birth of the industry to its first few decades, this book has approximately 100 full-color portraits of the legends of American comic books-publishers, editors, and artists. Its subjects are popular and obscure, men and women, and it includes several pioneering artists of color. Full-color illustrations throughout.

Hardcover. Seattle, Fantagraphics, 1st, 2008-, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, Clean, unmarked copy in excellent condition.

Hardcover. US, Andrews McMeel Publishing, 1st, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 323 pages, illustrated throughout in color and b&w. Light edgewear to dust jacket, otherwise a clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. New York, Harry N. Abrams, 1st, 2003, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 102 pages. Dust jacket price-clipped. "The New Yorker" takes a second look at our most loved childhood stories and rhymes. Edited by Bobby Goldstein. Nice copy.

Softcover. New York, Dell, 1st, 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Mass market paperback, Dell #5868, unpaginated. B&w cartoon drawings throughout by the Berenstains. Clean.

Softcover. San Francosco, San Francisco Comic Book Company, 1st, 1971, Book: Good, Softcover, October 1971 First edition, first printing 50 cents original price. Mr. Natural (Fred Natural) is a comic book character created and drawn by 1960s counterculture and underground comix artist Robert Crumb. Mr. Natural #2 : "A Gurl in Hotpants" (with Flakey Foont), "Sittin' Around the Kitchen Table" (with Flakey Foont), "The Girlfriend" (with Flakey Foont), "Have you seen 'um lately?", "I am the greatest! Make way! Make Way!" (with the Snoid), "On the Bum Again, part two". Ccorner creases, mild wear.

Softcover. Milwaukee WI, Krupp Comic Works, 1st, 1977, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover in pictorial color wraps, $1 cover price. Bawdy, sexually graphic, underground comics by Robert Crumb featuring his Mr. Natural character in strips that first appeared in the Village Voice. Some ink dates in upper corner of first page, otherwise like new.

Softcover. San Francisco, Apex Novelties, 3rd pr., 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Soft cover with stapled binding, color covers with b/w internal illustrations, 28 pages. It has nearly every point of the first printing, including a fifty-cent cover price, wording of publishing information on inner front cover ("Printed by Apex Novelties and published by the San Francisco Comic Book Company...") etc.; distinguished as third printing by lack of fading especially at lower left corner of front cover, 6 & 1/3" width of back cover artwork. Mild wear, rubbing.

Hardcover. NY, Pegasus Books, 1st, 2020, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 242 pages. A finely wrought coming-of-age memoir about the author's relationship with her beloved grandfather Joe Simon, cartoonist and co-creator of Captain America. In the 1990s, Megan Margulies's Upper West Side neighborhood was marked by addicts shooting up in subway stations, frequent burglaries, and the "Wild Man of 96th Street," who set fires under cars and heaved rocks through stained glass church windows. The world inside her parents' tiny one-bedroom apartment was hardly a respite, with a family of five-including some loud personalities-eventually occupying the 550-square-foot space. Salvation arrived in the form of her spirited grandfather, Daddy Joe, whose midtown studio became a second home to Megan. There, he listened to her woes, fed her Hungry Man frozen dinners, and simply let her be. His living room may have been dominated by the drawing table, notes, and doodles that marked him as Joe Simon the cartoonist. But for Megan, he was always Daddy Joe: an escape from her increasingly hectic home, a nonjudgmental voice whose sense of humor was as dry as his farfel, and a steady presence in a world that felt off balance. Evoking New York City both in the 1980s and '90s and during the Golden Age of comics in the 1930s and '40s, My Captain America flashes back from Megan's story to chart the life and career of Rochester-native Joe Simon, from his early days retouching publicity photos and doing spot art for magazines, to his partnership with Jack Kirby at Timely Comics (the forerunner of Marvel Comics), which resulted in the creation of beloved characters like Captain America, the Boy Commandos, and Fighting American. My Captain America offers a tender and sharply observed account of Megan's life with Daddy Joe-and an intimate portrait of the creative genius who gave us one of the most enduring superheroes of all time.

Hardcover. London, Chatto & Windus, 1st, 1984, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, satirical comic strips on the famous, recounting of a typical day by the former Australian, now New Yorker cartoonist. No dj issued.

Hardcover. New York, Simon and Schuster, 1st, 1963, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 96 pages, b&w cartoons by Price, most from The New Yorker. Dust jacket bright but with a small chunk gone from bottom of front panel and some light chipping.

Hardcover. Chicago, McClure, Phillips and Co., 1st, 1905, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, gray illustrated boards with brown cloth spine. A collection of b&w cartoons from two Chicago papers. Unpaginated, about 150 cartoons printed on one side only. Clean, tight copy with some light wear to covers at corners.

Softcover. US, Simon & Schuster , 1st, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 127 pages. Softcover. A collection of b&w drawings by The New Yorker cartoonist. Light edgewear to wrappers.

Hardcover. New York, DC Comics, 2nd, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 168 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.

Softcover. NY, National Lampoon Inc., 1st, 1977, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, Thick magazine of sexually-themed comics. Edited by Peter Kaminsky, Translated by Sophie Balcoff, Valerie Marchant, and Sean Kelly. Original French material compiled by David Pascal and Jean-Pierre Dionnet. Clean copy.

Softcover. NY, National Lampoon Magazine, 1st, 1978, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Large format paperback, 96 pages. "A savage, hilarious view of modern life" by the French cartoonist. Clean, bright copy.

Softcover. New York , National Lampoon, 1977, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, magazine format. Unpaginated, illustrated in color and b&w by various artists. Because of raunchy material, this comic publication had limited distribution, hard to find.

Hardcover. London, MQ Publications, 1st, 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 383 pages. "Aline Kominsky Crumb was one of the pioneers of women's comics, a genre that emerged in California in the sixties & seventies. She became well known during that period for her autobiographical work, influencing many comic book artists after her. Need More Love draws on her remarkable body of comic strips over the past four decades, many featuring her self-effacing character Bunch. Need More Love is a unique blend of comics, art, photographs & memorabilia, & portrays the movers & shakers (and the jerks) of the art & music worlds from the sixties to the present. Aline promises the reader: "I am packing this book with sordid details from my real life. I don't have to make up anything! You'll get fabulous adventures, sex, humor and advice on behavior, lifestyle & aesthetic judgment."

Hardcover. London, MQ Publications, 1st, 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 383 pages. "Aline Kominsky Crumb was one of the pioneers of women's comics, a genre that emerged in California in the sixties & seventies. She became well known during that period for her autobiographical work, influencing many comic book artists after her. Need More Love draws on her remarkable body of comic strips over the past four decades, many featuring her self-effacing character Bunch. Need More Love is a unique blend of comics, art, photographs & memorabilia, & portrays the movers & shakers (and the jerks) of the art & music worlds from the sixties to the present. Aline promises the reader: "I am packing this book with sordid details from my real life. I don't have to make up anything! You'll get fabulous adventures, sex, humor and advice on behavior, lifestyle & aesthetic judgment."

Softcover. Agoura CA, Fantagraphics, 1st, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, magazine format with stapled binding, color wraps, b&w illustrations, 66 pages. Articles on Jack Kent's King Aroo, the wild west of Harold Gray and Little Joe, the slum kids of Percy Crosby. Clean, bright copy.

Softcover. Agoura CA, Fantagraphics, 1st, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, magazine format with stapled binding, color wraps, b&w illustrations, 66 pages. Articles on the comic strips of John Held Jr., art of Jimmy Swinnerton, Joe Palooka by Ham Fisher, labor violence and cartoonists 100 years ago. Clean, bright copy.

Softcover. Agoura CA, Fantagraphics, 1st, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, magazine format with stapled binding, color wraps, b&w illustrations, 66 pages. Articles on Little Orphan Annie (1937 episode), Fontaine Fox and The Toonerville Trolley, Hi and Lois by Mort Walker and Dik Browne. Clean, bright copy.

Hardcover. Berlin, Hermann Klemm, 1st, n.d., Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 488 pages, hardcover illustrated with about 1,500 b&w cartoons, photos, some color plates. Terra cotta cloth with gilt lettering. Previous owner's inscription on prelim page, one loose plate otherwise very good.

Softcover. New York, Four Walls Eight Windows, 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 300 pages. Softcover with light edgewear to wrappers. Black and white pictures throughout.

Hardcover. New York , Harper and Brothers, 1st, 1955, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, blue cloth covers, black cloth spine. Cartoons from the golden age of the New Yorker, including many covers reproduced in color. Clean, very good. Lacks dust jacket.

Hardcover. New York, Atria, 1st, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 112 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. Here is a cornucopia of 104 dead-on drawings and eye-opening ruminations on all things bookish, writerly, and readerly, courtesy of The New Yorker's renowned stable of cartoonists, including Charles Barsotti, Roz Chast, Ed Koren, J.B. Handelsman, Jack Ziegler, and Victoria Roberts.

Softcover. Italy , Coconino Press, Reprint, 2018, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Unpaginated. Softcover with dust jacket. A very clean, unmarked copy with minor creasing to dust jacket rear flap.

Hardcover. Seattle, Fantagraphics, 1st, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 144 pages. This is an essential purchase for fans of Felix the Cat. As all true fans know, Felix's real glory days were in the silent era, when Pat Sullivan's animation studio produced over a 100 ingenious short cartoons featurng the protean ebony feline. Though Sullivan hogged all the credit, the artist behind the series was Otto Messmer, who also worked on Felix's spin-off newspaper comic strip. He continued with that strip after the cartoons ended in 1930 (due to Sullivan's incompetent management).Editor David Gerstein has compiled a sampling of strips from the early 1920s to the 1930s. It's fascinating to see how Felix changed over a decade, moving from a blocky, snout-nosed design to a sleek look with rubber hose limbs and circular head and torso. Comic-strip Felix is of naturally talkier than his film self, and Messmer's sight gags flow less smoothly when broken up by panels and dialogue, but these strips remain a delight, especially since a couple stories are adaptations of now-lost cartoons (and even re-use art from them). As for the original stories, they take advantage of the format to tell longer tales, often in the sort of gently humorous adventure genre later used by Floyd Gottfredson's Mickey Mouse and Carl Bark's Donald Duck comics. Sadly, Felix's comic strip adventures remain far more obscure than those Disney productions.

Softcover. Montreal, Drawn and Quarterly, 1st, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 112 pages. Doug Wright's pantomime strip about the life of a suburban family moves into the mid-1960s, and the pop culture of the time begins to seep in. Wright showcases the domestic mayhem that parents and their kids experience throughout the year. The endless play of kids is prevalent, from skateboarding to snowball fights, from the guilty pleasure of making prank phone calls to the daily roughhousing of siblings.

Softcover. Seattle, WA, Fantagraphics, 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 216 pages. Softcover with light edgewear to wrappers. Black and white comics throughout.

Hardcover. New York, Pantheon, 1st, 1977, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. Unpaginated, b&w cartoons by Lorenz which originally ran in The New Yorker. Bright dust jacket, unclipped, with a touch of wear to bottom of spine.

Hardcover. New York , Pantheon, 1st, 1977, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Unpaginated, a collection of cartoons that originally appeared in The New Yorker. Bright, unclipped dust jacket.

Hardcover. Seattle, WA, Fantagraphics Books, 1st, 2013, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Non paginated. Hardcover without dust jacket. Extensive color and b&w illustrations throughout. Slight stains to front cover, otherwise clean, tight copy. Inspired by a real-life incident -getting his tie caught in a moving Moviola editing machine- Gene Deitch, cartoonist, animator, memoirist, renaissance man, created Nudnik, his Everyman character, a cross between Candide and Godot. The star of 12 Paramount-produced animated shorts that ran in theatres as an opening to the main movie in 1964 and 1965, Nudnik was one of Deitch's most creatively personal and commercially successful creations in a long career of innovative and successful work, including the award-winning animated versions of Jules Feiffer's Munro and Maurice Sendak's Where the Wild Things Are. Nudnik is the well-intentioned, kind, cheerful, but bumbling naf, inspired by and reflecting such archetypal characters as Jackie Gleason's Poor Soul, Charlie Chaplin's Tramp, and Charles Schulz's Charlie Brown. He never gets a break, can't do anything right, but somehow muddles through, dignity more or less intact. Nudnik Revealed! finally collects all of Deitch's original drawings, sketches, model sheets, storyboards, and color set-up that he drew during the Nudnik production season of 1964-1965, all reproduced from original art, showcasing his lively pencil line and his slick, authoritative pen and ink work. Deitch, a born storyteller and one of the great raconteurs of comics and animation, accompanies the copious examples of art with a running commentary by turns, funny, spirited, and chock full of historical insights.

Hardcover. New York, Bloomsbury USA, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 136 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to boards. Comics throughout. A never-before-compiled collection from the most influential underground artist of our time. Odds & Ends is a unique book of Robert Crumb's previously unpublished, autobiographical, favorite, and most successful strips. It also contains photographs, portraits, and text by the man himself.

Hardcover. Chicago, Volland Company, 1st, 1913, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, illustrated boards with brown cloth spine, unpaginated, but roughly 60 pages of 2-color cartoons from the noted artist and satirist. Each drawing is aptly accompanied by a short verse by Nesbit. Clean, bright copy.

Hardcover. Chicago, Volland Company, 1st, 1919, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, illustrated boards with brown cloth spine, unpaginated, but roughly 60 pages of 2-color cartoons from the noted artist and satirist. Foreword by Franklin P. Adams. In publisher's illustrated box, worn and splitting at corners. Light foxing to cover boards, interior pages clean and bright.

Softcover. Kansas City, Andrews McMeel Publishing, 1st, 2009, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 128 pages. Softcover with only light wear to paper wrappers. Cartoons throughout in black and white by Lorenz. Remainder mark on top.

Hardcover. Seattle, Sasquatch Books, 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 216 pages. Hardcover no dust jacket. Color drawings. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to covers.

Hardcover. NY, Harry N. Abrams, 1st, 2020, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Charles M. Schulz believed that the key to cartooning was to take out the extraneous details and leave in only what's necessary. For 50 years, he wrote and illustrated Peanuts, the single most popular and influential comic strip in the world. Renowned designer Chip Kidd was granted unprecedented access to the extraordinary archives of the Charles M. Schulz Museum and Research Center in Santa Rosa, California. Only What's Necessary reproduces the best of the Peanuts newspaper strip, all shot from the original art by award-winning photographer Geoff Spear, and features exclusive, rare, and unpublished original art and developmental work--much of which has never been seen before.

Hardcover. NY, Henry Schuman, 1st, 1950, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover. Black & white drawings by Simont. Previous owner's inscription on half-title page. Dust jacket with light edgewear, chipping.

Hardcover. Paris, Casterman, 1st, 1979, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 48 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Laminated cover boards. FRENCH TEXT. Clean, tight copy with comics drawings by Gilles Chaillet.

Hardcover. New York, Harper, reprint, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 48 pages. Hardcover, no dust jacket. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to boards. A graphic novel based on Christie's famous mystery.

New York, Ethyl Gasoline Corp., 1938, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Art "There's three kinds of fishin'...", color cartoon art featuring Skippy by Percy Crosby. 10" X 13", very good. PLEASE NOTE: The image shown is a scan of the actual product you are purchasing. What you see is what you get. The sheet may have some imperfections beyond the cropped area shown. You are buying THIS PAGE ONLY- not the entire magazine. Your order will be placed carefully between stiff paper and an acetate overlay, then packed in a rigid cardboard sleeve to prevent bending.

1924, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Thanksgiving Number, Skippy sruggling with crazed turkey. Cartoon art by Percy Crosby. 8 X 11", very good. PLEASE NOTE: The image shown is a scan of the actual product you are purchasing. What you see is what you get. The sheet may have some imperfections beyond the cropped area shown. You are buying THIS PAGE ONLY- not the entire magazine. Your order will be placed carefully between stiff paper and an acetate overlay, then packed in a rigid cardboard sleeve to prevent bending.

Hardcover. Jackson MS, University Press of Mississippi, 1st, 2014, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Like new in publisher's shrink-wrap. Hardcover, 168 pages. In The Origins of Comics: From William Hogarth to Winsor McCay, Thierry Smolderen presents a cultural landscape whose narrative differs in many ways from those presented by other historians of the comic strip. Rather than beginning his inquiry with the popularly accepted "sequential art" definition of the comic strip, Smolderen instead wishes to engage with the historical dimensions that inform that definition. His goal is to understand the processes that led to the twentieth-century comic strip, the highly recognizable species of picture stories that he sees crystallizing around 1900 in the United States. Featuring close readings of the picture stories, caricatures, and humoristic illustrations of William Hogarth, Rodolphe Topffer, Gustave Dore, and their many contemporaries, Smolderen establishes how these artists were immersed in a very old visual culture in which images--satirical images in particular--were deciphered in a way that was often described as hieroglyphical. Across eight chapters, he acutely points out how the effect of the printing press and the mass advent of audiovisual technologies (photography, audio recording, and cinema) at the end of the nineteenth century led to a new twentieth-century visual culture. In tracing this evolution, Smolderen distinguishes himself from other comics historians by following a methodology that explains the present state of the form of comics on the basis of its history, rather than presenting the history of the form on the basis of its present state. This study remaps the history of this influential art form.

Hardcover. NewYork , Ticknor & Fields, 1st, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 190 pages. Foreword by Garry Trudeau. B&W, color illustrations.

Softcover. New York, Noonday Press, 1st, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Non-paginated. Softcover with minor wear to paper wrappers. Illustrations by Steig. Clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. UK, PS Artbooks, 1st, 2012, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 240 pages, illustrated throughout in color. Clean, tight copy. Collects February 1952 to January 1953.