Hardcover. Seattle, Fantagraphics, reprint, 2011, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 143 pages. This lovingly produced collection of Gahan Wilson's 1970s "Nuts" strips from "National Lampoon" is a treasure and deservedly back in print after much too long. It is said that anyone who remembers the joys of being a kid really doesn't remember being a kid at all. Wilson remembers well. The page-long strips are wonderful bittersweet tales of discovery, of disillusionment, of sentimental memory, of revelation and new experience.

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 Odds & Ends is a unique book of Robert Crumb's previously unpublished, autobiographical, favorite, and most successful strips.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.

Hardcover. New York, Knopf, 1st, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, unpaginated, b&w cartoons throughout. Translated from the French by Helen Graves. From the New Yorker cartoonist, an evocation of New York life. Drawings and droll imaginary letters home from a visiting Frenchman. Bright, clean copy in a similar dust jacket.

Softcover. New York, Harper and Row, 1st, 1984, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Non-paginated. Softcover with black and white drawings by Roz Chast. Clean, tight copy with minor wear to paper edges.

Softcover. New York, Harper and Row, 5th pr., 1984, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Non-paginated. Softcover with black and white drawings by Roz Chast. Clean, tight copy with minor wear to paper edges.

Softcover. New York , Paris Review, 1st, 2010, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover journal, 218 pages. Featues an interview with Robert Crumb, Illustrated. Also an interview with David Mitchell.

Hardcover. NY, Bloomsbury USA, 1st, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 96 pages. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. Readers can't get enough of Roz Chast. Together, these cartoons, which originally appeared in The New Yorker, Scientific American, Redbook, and other publications, constitute a spot-on record of our increasingly absurd existence. The book is a powerful reminder of how lucky we are to have Roz Chast among us to tackle some of the toughest themes of the times with uproarious humor: genetically altered mice, birthday parties from hell, and comfort drinks in the age of insecurity.

Hardcover. Seattle, Fantagraphics, reprint, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 180 pages. After 14 years, Fantagraphics' Feiffer resumes with late-fifties and early-sixties popular-magazine stories emphasizing social satire. "Passionella" is Cinderella gone Hollywood: a chimney sweep is transformed into a sexpot. Other stories depict a despondent neurotic who solves romantic problems by inventing a compliant robot, a self-absorbed man who has the entire moon to himself, and the world's greatest athlete, scorned for shunning competition--all done in Feiffer's sketchy, economical cartoon style. An illustrated fable about a village jester searching for his serious side and several one-act plays fill out the volume. In these trenchant pieces, the era's anxieties--conformity, male insecurity, troubled relationships--don't seem a half century old.

Hardcover. London, Collins, 1st U.K., 1960, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Unpaginated. Hardcover with dust jacket. The English Edition. Dust jacket w/ light edgewear chips. Price-clipped. Light soil on top of page block.

Hardcover. Seattle, Fantagraphics, 1st, 2014, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 320 pages. Hardcover, no dust jacket. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. Perfect Nonsense tells the complete story behind one of the most innovative and under-rated Golden Age artists, classic children's illustrators, and nonsense poets in American history. For more than 50 years, George Carlson created thousands of distinctive and dynamic cartoons, comics, riddles, and games that thrilled both children and adults with their fanciful spirit and nonsensical humor

Hardcover. New York , Simon and Schuster, 1st, 1967, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Blue boards stamped in white, in an edgeworn dust jacket. 140 pages of b&w cartoons from the New Yorker.

Hardcover. New York, Simon and Schuster, 1st, 1967, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 140 pages, color cartoons on end papers, b&w cartoons from The New Yorker, a great collection of Arno's work from the mid-sixties. Bright, clean copy in an unclipped dust jacket.

Hardcover. New York , Simon and Schuster, 1st, 1967, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Blue boards stamped in white, in an edgeworn dust jacket. 140 pages of b&w cartoons from the New Yorker.

Hardcover. New York, Horace Liveright, 6th pr., 1930, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, unpaginated. A collection of early Arno cartoons from the New Yorker, 1926-29. Clean, tight copy. Lacks dust jacket.

Hardcover. New York, Regan Arts, 1st, 2016, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 286 pages, b&w illustrations.

Hardcover. New York, Regan Arts, 1st, 2016, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 304 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, unmarked copy. Black and white pictures throughout.

Hardcover. New York, Regan Arts, 1st, 2016, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 304 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Very clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. Color and black & white illustrations throughout. Tight copy.

Hardcover. Seattle, Fantagraphics, 1st, 2008, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: Near Fine, 126 pages, illustrated throughout in b&w. Clean, unmarked copy in excellent condition.

Hardcover. Neshannock PA , Hermes Press, Reprint , 2015, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. Like new in publisher's shrink-wrap. Imagine waking up in 1939 and reading the first Phantom Sunday strip in the newspaper. Now, for the first time, these rare Phantom Sundays are being collected in their full size in an archival reprint of the first six Phantom stories! The stories for these Sundays was created by Lee Falk with artwork by Ray Moore in a half page format, so this reprint is faithful to the originals and reproduces every detail of these Sundays as seen in Sunday sections of newspapers. These Sunday pages have the same look and feel of the originals only now they're collected in a high quality art book format that will last forever.

Hardcover. Neshannock PA , Hermes Press, 1st, 2014, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. 207 pages. Extensive color illustrations by Lee Falk throughout. Illustrated cover, endpapers and pastedowns. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.

Hardcover. Neshannock PA, Hermes Press, 1st, 2018, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 191 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. Color throughout.

Softcover. Long Beach CA, Tony Raiola, 1st, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 46 pages illustrated in b&w by Falk. Clean, bright copy.

Softcover. Long Beach CA, Tony Raiola, 1st, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 40 pages illustrated in b&w by Falk. Clean, bright copy.

Softcover. Long Beach CA, Tony Raiola, 1st, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 36 pages illustrated in b&w by Falk. Clean, bright copy.

Softcover. Long Beach CA, Tony Raiola, 1st, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 56 pages illustrated in b&w by Falk. Clean, bright copy.

Softcover. Long Beach CA, Tony Raiola, 1st, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 56 pages illustrated in b&w by Falk. Clean, bright copy.

Softcover. Long Beach CA, Tony Raiola, 1st, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 32 pages illustrated in b&w by Falk. Clean, bright copy.

Softcover. New Haven, Yale University Press, 1st, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 144 pages. Explores the various uses of images with and without text in the work of over thirty artists from around the world. B&w illustrations.

Softcover. New Haven CT, Yale University Press, 1st, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 144 pages. Comics, graphic novels, and single panel cartoons have long flourished as an alternative medium. In recent years these forms of narrative illustration-artwork that tells its own story rather than supporting a text-have increasingly crossed over into mainstream popular culture. Pictorial storytelling now reaches the public through animated films (Spirited Away) and films with animated sequences (Kill Bill), while graphic novels win literary prizes and comic art hangs in art galleries. This delightful book explores the various uses of images with and without text in the work of over thirty artists from around the world.

Softcover. NY, R.H. Russell, 1st, 1899, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. A collection of 84 black & white cartoons by Gibson. Oblong, 1/2 cloth and cardboard covers. Rear panel has scuffing tears to paper over boards. Interior very good.

Hardcover. UK, PS Publishing, 1st, 2012, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 288 pages, illustrated throughout in color. Clean, tight copy. Collects January 1940 to April 1940, Issues 1-4.

Hardcover. New York, DC Comics, 1st, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover 216 pages. Like new in publisher's shrink-wrap. Plastic Man encounters a number of zany villains, including Fargo Freddie, the volcanic man; Froggy Fink, underworld killer; Elmer Body, the body-possessing nobody; and others. Jack Cole was one of the true geniuses of the comic book art form. Here we have some great examples of his masterwork, Plastic Man. Plastic Man and his sidekick Woozy Winks are two of the greatest characters of the Golden Age of comics. Jack Cole's odd outlook on life, and his sometimes dark sense of humor, make these among the best of the superhero comics of the era. Highly recommended to superhero fans, especially those who don't them too seriously.

Hardcover. New York, DC Comics, 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 204 pages. Like new in publisher's shrink-wrap. Reprinting POLICE COMICS #50-58 and PLASTIC MAN #4 in a handsome hardcover archive! Featuring an introduction by Bill Schelly and a host of innovative and unusual Golden Age Plastic Man tales.

Softcover. Chicago IL, Playboy Press , reprint, 1973, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 128 pages. Softcover. Extensive color and b&w illustrations throughout. Some edge wear to covers, otherwise clean, tight copy. More than 220 cartoons - 120 in full color.

Hardcover. New York, W. W. Norton & Company, 1st, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 160 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. Drawings by Will Eisner.

Hardcover. Seattle, Fantagraphics, 1st, 2012, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 344 pages. The second volume in a series reprinting in its entirety the syndicated run of Walt Kelly's classic newspaper strip. It features all the strips from 1951 and 1952, which have been collected before, but in now long-out-of print books, and even there they were not as meticulously restored and reproduced as in this new series. Bona Fide Balderdash also reprints, literally for the first time ever in full color, the two full years of Sunday pages, also carefully restored and color-corrected, shot from the finest copies available. This second volume is once again edited and designed by the cartoonist's daughter, Carolyn Kelly, who is also handling much of the restoration work.