Softcover. Raleigh NC, TwoMorrows Publishing , 1st pbk, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Paperback, 256 pages, illustrated in color. From the 1940s to the '70s, Reed Crandall brought a unique and masterful style to American comic art. Using an illustrator's approach on everything he touched, Crandall gained a reputation as the "artist's artist" through his skillful interpretations of Golden Age super-heroes Doll Man, The Ray, and Blackhawk (his signature character); horror and sci-fi for the legendary EC Comics line; Warren Publishing's Creepy, Eerie, and Blazing Combat; the THUNDER Agents and Edgar Rice Burroughs characters; and even Flash Gordon for King Features. Comic art historian Roger Hill has compiled a complete and extensive history of Crandall's life and career, from his early years and major successes, through his tragic decline and passing in 1982. This full-color softcover includes never-before-seen photos, a wealth of rare and unpublished artwork, and over eighty thousand words of insight into one of the true illustrators of the comics. Bookplate signed by Roger Hill laid in.
Hardcover. New York, Cupples & Leon, 1st, 1929, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Publisher's cloth-backed boards illustrated in color, 86 pages of b&w cartoons reprinted from the New York Herald Tribune, most dated 1927. Light use to edges of boards; tight and sound, no markings.
Softcover. Tahiti, Pacific Comics Club, 1st, 1980, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Four softcover volumes that cover the Rip Kirby comic strip for a full year, Dec. 5 1949 through Dec. 23 1950. Color wraps, daily strips in b&w. Titles: "White Inferno", "Gunpowder Dreams", "Buried Treasure", "The Missing Nightingale." Clean copies.
Softcover. Toronto , Dragon Lady Press, reprint, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, illustrated wrappers with staple binding. 56 pages of b&w Rip Kirby strips. Clean, very good.
Hardcover. Library of American Comics, 1st, 2010, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 320 pages. The third volume of Alex Raymond's modernist classic, Rip Kirby, contains nearly three years of strips, from September 24, 1951 through April 17, 1954, all rendered in Raymond's incredibly lush style. World's best photographer, the sexy Bijou Benson; a playboy sheik from Algiers; a revolution in the Middle East; the return of criminals Joe Seven, Fingers Moray, and the deadly Mangler; the deadly Lili Lavelle; all while Honey Dorian, of course, is not happy that Pagan Lee re-enters the picture.
Softcover. New York , Monacelli Press, 1st, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 224 pages, color illustrations throughout by Robert Risko. These celebrity caricatures are instantly recognizable -- recognizable both as unmistakable portraits of famous subjects and as examples of Risko's bold and fluid style. Risko's career was launched in 1978 when Andy Warhol gave him an assignment for Interview magazine. Since then he has drawn likenesses of hundreds of notables from the worlds of film, television, politics, and culture. In addition to countless images for Vanity Fair, Rolling Stone, The New Yorker, and other major magazines, Risko has illustrated book jackets, video covers, movie posters, and CD packages. Very good plus.
Softcover. New York , Monacelli Press, 1st, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 224 pages, color illustrations throughout by Robert Risko. These celebrity caricatures are instantly recognizable -- recognizable both as unmistakable portraits of famous subjects and as examples of Risko's bold and fluid style. Risko's career was launched in 1978 when Andy Warhol gave him an assignment for Interview magazine. Since then he has drawn likenesses of hundreds of notables from the worlds of film, television, politics, and culture. In addition to countless images for Vanity Fair, Rolling Stone, The New Yorker, and other major magazines, Risko has illustrated book jackets, video covers, movie posters, and CD packages. Very good plus.
Hardcover. London, William Heinemann, 1st, 1922, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Unpaginated, a series of tipped-in color plates. Blue cloth covers w/ gilt lettering. Light edge wear to covers, spine darkened. Light yellowing to end papers. Else a clean, tight copy. A humorous tribute to the Rossetti family and their circle, including Wilde, Ruskin, Millais, Ford Madox Brown, Swinburne, et al. Twenty two color plates mounted on art paper with amusing descriptive tissue guards.
Hardcover. London, William Heinemann, 1st, 1922, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. Unpaginated, a series of tipped-in color plates. Blue cloth covers w/ gilt lettering. Light edge wear to covers, spine darkened. Light yellowing to end papers. Else a clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. London, PS publishers, 1st, 2015, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover with no dust jacket. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to covers. Color and Black and white pictures throughout. Rulah first appeared in Zoot Comics #7 back in June 1947 and she's generally regarded as being the brainchild of Matt Baker and, some time later, Jack Kamen and Ghastly Graham Ingels. Collects Rulah #17-27, August 1948 to June 1949. These are typical Good Girl stories of simplistic morality and mega-violence, with a bit of erotic sizzle. Rulah defends people's rights and fights evil. But she was a bit different than the standard "Good Girl Art" stuff of that era. Most of her stories feature a bad girl so there are a lot of catfights.
Hardcover. London, PS publishers, 1st, 2015, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover with no dust jacket. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to covers. Color and Black and white pictures throughout. Originally published in magazine form in All Top Comics 8-18, Tegra/Zegra Aug 1948 - Apr 1949, and Seven Seas Comics 1-6.
Hardcover. US, PS publishers, 1st, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover with no dust jacket. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to covers. Color and Black and white pictures throughout.
Hardcover. UK, PS publishers, 1st, 2014, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover with no dust jacket. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to covers. Color and Black and white pictures throughout. She may still be everyone's favourite yellow-tressed leopard-skin-clad Jungle Jane but, having made her first appearance almost 80 years ago (courtesy of Will Eisner and 'Jerry' Iger in the British mag Wags #1), Sheena, Queen of the Jungle could be forgiven for being somewhat less spritely swinging through the trees righting wrongs and wielding her knife. In 1938, she made it Stateside with her first showing in Jungle Comics #1 where she settled happily in every issue (plus a decade in her own title) until April 1953. There have been other incarnations, of course, but it's this classic material that strikes at the very heart of Good Girl Art! Collects issues #11-18, Spring 1951 to Winter 1952.
Hardcover. New York , Simon and Schuster, 1st, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 190 pages, b&w cartoon contraptions by the master. Bright, clean copy in unclipped dust jacket. A collection of Rube Goldberg's wackiest inventions features more than two thousand "schematics" from the immensely popular comic for everything from suicide machines to a pick-pocket device designed for politicians.
Softcover. Chicago, Indiana Society of Chicago, 1st, 1940, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, illustrated wrappers with red plastic comb binding. 40 full-page b&w cartoons by various artists, all honoring McCutcheon at the 29th Annual Dinner of The Indiana Society on Dec. 14, 1940: Fontaine Fox, Webster, Fitzpatrick, Milton Caniff, Shoemaker, Chester Gould, many others. Cover by Paul Plaschke. Bright, clean copy. Scarce.
Softcover. New York , Marvel Entertainment, 1st, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 63 pages illustrated in color by Glanzman. Clean, bright copy.
Softcover. New York , Marvel Entertainment, 1st, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 60 pages illustrated in color by Glanzman. Clean, bright copy.
Softcover. San Francisco, San Francisco Comic Book Company, 1st, 1970, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, Color pictorial covers, pages. Robert Crumb cover. 50 cents cover price. Art by Rory Hayes, Willy Murphy, Iim Osborne, S. Clay Wilson, Jay Lynch, Trina, Justin Green, Rory Hayes, Joel Beck, Kim Deitch, Robert Williams, Back cover has some paper loss to image
Hardcover. Dupuis, 1st, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, glossy boards, 56 pages illustrated in color by Hermann. French text. A graphic novel about the conflict in Sarajevo. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Nan A. Talese, 1st, 2012, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 732 pages, illustrations in color and b&w. Light edgewear to dust jacket, else a clean, tight copy. From National Book Award winner Deirdre Bair, the definitive biography of Saul Steinberg, one of The New Yorker's most iconic artists.
Hardcover. New York, Nan A. Talese, 1st, 2012, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 732 pages, illustrations in color and b&w. Light edgewear to dust jacket, else a clean, tight copy. From National Book Award winner Deirdre Bair, the definitive biography of Saul Steinberg, one of The New Yorker's most iconic artists.
Hardcover. Paris, Denoel, reprint, 1977, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 123 pages of b&w cartoons by Sempe, originally published in 1964. Green cloth covers with fading to spine. previous owner's signature on front fly leaf. Otherwise clean, very good. French language but most of his cartoons are wordless.
Softcover. London, Strange Attractor Press, 1st, 2012, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, oblong format, pictorial wrappers. B&w art. Collected together for the first time, these Trip or Squeek strips offer acerbic, lysergic and razor sharp observations on music, art and life. Featuring extensive notes, a discography and never-before-seen preparatory sketches by Savage Pencil, and an illustrated foreword by artist Gary Panter. Savage Pencil's Trip or Squeek strips have been appearing in music magazine The Wire since 2002.
Hardcover. New York, Harper, 1st, 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 672 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.
Hardcover. Dallas TX, Taylor Pub, 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 150 pages, in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Illustrated in color and b&w. Traces the history of science fiction comics from the 1930s to the present, discussing characters and themes, the influence of television and film, and other topics.
Softcover. Seattle, Fantagraphics, 1st, 2021, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 192pages. Collects, for the first time, the complete adventures of four of the influential Mad magazine cartoonist's more arcane comics creations: Scoop Scuttle, Mystic Moot, Bingbang Buster, and Jumpin' Jupiter - restored, as they've never been seen before! In this rip-roaring retrospective of the influential Mad magazine cartoonist, Basil Wolverton's often-warped imagination combines with his outlandishly wacky visual humor to fascinate and delight. It collects the ultra-rare treasures Scoop Scuttle, Mystic Moot, Bingbang Buster, and Jumpin' Jupiter - as they've never been seen before! Due to the rock-bottom printing methods of ten-cent comic books, Wolverton's intricate line work was routinely obscured, and often obliterated. In this collection, every effort has been made to restore the art to its original splendor, and to at last present the uniquely detailed graphics of this justly revered comic book master. Full-color illustrations throughout.
Hardcover. Chicago, Reilly & Britton, 1st, 1918, Illustrated boards, oblong 8 X 4 inches. 96 pages of b&w cartoons. The travails of Silas N. Dobbin Of Pickle Center, Iowa during his arrival and training at the Great Lakes Naval Training Center during World War I. The book is a compilation of cartoons that ran in the camp newspaper, and was drawn by 18-year-old Perce Pearce, who would go on to be a writer, director, and producer at Walt Disney Studios. Pearce was the model for Doc in the cartoon feature Snow White, which he co-directed. Pearce's credits also included the Disney pictures Bambi, Song of the South, Treasure Island, Rob Roy and The Story of Robin Hood. Light stains to covers otherwise clean and tight.
Hardcover. London, Dennis Dobson, 1st, 1977, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, UNIQUE COPY. Searle's agent has marked each illustration including cover and flyleaf for a prospective buyer with the price for the original art (in 1978 dollars). 30 pages, hardcover. Illustrated in color. Bottom corners bumped. Cover lightly soiled
Hardcover. New York , Knopf, 3rd pr., 2014, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 410 pages, b&w and color illustrations. Clean, bright copy in a similar unclipped dust jacket.
Softcover. New York, Wm. H. Wise, 1st, 1930, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Non-Paginated. Comic strips by Clare Briggs that originally appeared in the New York Herald-Tribune. This being one volume of a seven volume set. Light wear to cover corners and edges. Clean, tight copy. Pebbled flexible cloth covers. Clean.
Softcover. New York, Wm. H. Wise, 1st, 1930, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Non-Paginated. Comic strips by Clare Briggs that originally appeared in the New York Herald-Tribune. This being one volume of a seven volume set. Light wear to cover corners and edges. Clean, tight copy. Pebbled flexible cloth covers. Clean.
Softcover. New York, Wm. H. Wise, 1st, 1930, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Non-Paginated. Comic strips by Clare Briggs that originally appeared in the New York Herald-Tribune. This being one volume of a seven volume set. Light wear to cover corners and edges. Clean, tight copy. Pebbled flexible cloth covers. Clean.
Softcover. New York, Wm. H. Wise, 1st, 1930, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Non-Paginated. Comic strips by Clare Briggs that originally appeared in the New York Herald-Tribune. This being one volume of a seven volume set. Light wear to cover corners and edges. Clean, tight copy. Pebbled flexible cloth covers. Clean.
Softcover. New York, Wm. H. Wise, 1st, 1930, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Non-Paginated. Comic strips by Clare Briggs that originally appeared in the New York Herald-Tribune. This being one volume of a seven volume set. Light wear to cover corners and edges. Clean, tight copy. Pebbled flexible cloth covers. Clean.
Softcover. San Francisco, Rip Off Press, 1st, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 32 pages plus color wraps. Staple bound, $2.00 cover price. Black and white art by Selton inside. Clean, bright copy.
Hardcover. New York, Chelsea House, 1st, 1985, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 215 pages. Color and black & white illustrations of comic art. Light rubbing to extremities. A colorful exploration of an engrossing subject with illustrations by artists such as Milton Caniff, John Byrne, Ron Embleton, Richard Corben, Burton Clarke, Chester Gould, Val Mayerik and many more.
Hardcover. Seattle, Fantagraphics Books, 1st, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 144 pages. Sex, Rock 'N' Roll, & Optical Illusions is Victor Moscoso's first major, career-spanning retrospective, from his earliest poster work in 1966 to his most recent graphic experimentation. Optical Illusions contains his best posters that advertised bands playing in San Francisco's famous dance ballrooms of the time - the Avalon, the Matrix, and the Fillmore - as well as many of his Zap Comix contributions, and his solo comix work, many in Moscoso's signature color. This wide-ranging career retrospective - Moscoso's famous technique employing "vibrating colors" that he pioneered in his posters is impeccably reproduced with as much fidelity to the original as modern printing can achieve, his black-and-white and full color comix work is collected here for the first time - is an intense, vibrant, and revelatory experience. Introductions by Steve Heller and Milton Glaser.
Hardcover. UK, PS publishers, 1st, 2014, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover with no dust jacket. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to covers. Color and Black and white pictures throughout.
Softcover. NY, DC Comics, 1st, 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 512 pages. A collection of comic books starring Barry Allen, a medical police scientist transformed into a dynamic superhero known as the Flash. Stories date from 1956 to 1961.
Softcover. NY, DC Comics, 1st, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover,. A collection of comic books starring Barry Allen, a medical police scientist transformed into a dynamic superhero known as the Flash. Stories date from the 1960s.
Hardcover. NY, Harper and Collins, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Non paginated. Hardcover. Color cartoons by Steig. Clean, tight copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.
Softcover. New York, Random House, 3rd pr., 1958, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, an early collection of Feiffer's cartoons from The Village Voice. Unpaginated. Light wear, clean.
Softcover. San Francisco, Rip Off Press, 1st, 1980, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 32 pages plus color wraps. Staple bound, $2.00 cover price. Black and white art by Selton inside. Clean, bright copy.
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