Art Comic

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.

Hardcover. Boston, Gambit, 1st, 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 194 pages. A collection of David Levine's political cartoons, which were selected and introduced by John Kenneth Galbraith, a companion to Pens and Needles, another volume of literary caricatures by John Updike. It covers the American political scene in detail from Joseph McCarthy to Nixon, along with drawings of Lyndon Johnson, and Hubert Humphrey. Illustrated in black and white and indexed.

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.