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Hardcover. Cincinnati, Ohio, North Light Books, 1st, March 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 134 pages, b&w illustrations. A very clean, tight copy. Explains the role of caricature, tells how to develop a personal style, and includes profiles and work by top caricaturists. No dj issued.

Softcover. US, Eclipse Books, 1st, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to wrappers. Cartoonist and Disney animator, Walt Kellys' famous comic strip character Pogo and his friends. Collected into sequential volumes, are the reprinting and recolored stories from the Pogo comic books, first published in the 40's to the 60's by Dell Comics. This is volume 2 of 4 by Eclipse Comics, 64 pages.

Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin , 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 32 pages illustrated in color by Rubel. Bright, unclipped dust jacket.

Hardcover. Seattle, Fantagraphics, 1st, 2014, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. Collects the top shelf of VIP's drink-themed artwork including well-known favorites, this new book is sure to delight even the most rigid teetotaler. Cartoons in b&w.

Hardcover. Middle Village, Jonathan David, 1st, 1978, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 438 pages. Black & white illustrations. Price clipped dust jacket with 2 tape repaired short tears on top edge. Clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. New York, G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1st Thus, 1979, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 128 pages. Hardcover. Illustrated throughout with black & white photographs. Dust jacket with light wear is price clipped - now protected with clear plastic cover. Minor sun fade to top and bottom edges of covers. Clean, tight copy.

NY, Simon & Schuster, 1st, 1938, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 144 pages in a nice dust jacket. B&w illustrations by Gluyas Williams.

Hardcover. New York, Harper and Row, reprint, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 64 pages, glossy illustrated boards in a bright dust jacket with a flap price of $1.95. Last book listed on rear panel of dust jacket is Here Comes the Strikout, rear flap contains reviews for Little Bear.

Hardcover. NY, Harper & Rone, 1st, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Color illustrations by Joyce. Illustrated in the retro-modern style of a 50's sf pulp, A DAY WITH WILBUR ROBINSON is filled with fun things including an Ellington-Armstrong with frogs music band, an individual fly-able jet-pack, an anti-gravity machine, and is the fun story of the search for Grandfather Robinson's false teeth. An eye-catching color illustration faces every page of text. Clean copy.

Hardcover. London, Titan Comics, 1st, 2015, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 208 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. A very clean, unmarked copy with only minor rubbing to boards. A tight copy. Before Marilyn and Madonna, Betty booped and wriggled her way into hearts worldwide with her unique mix of wide-eyed innocence and powerful cartoon sensuality. Although she made her film debut as a curvaceous canine cabaret singer in the Max Fleischer short Dizzy Dishes on August 9, 1930, Betty Boop remains animation's first leading lady and a glamorous international icon. This beautiful volume collects Betty's adventures as they appeared in the funny pages of daily newspapers in the 1930's, capturing all the cheeky fun embodied by the character.

Hardcover. NY, Henry Holt & Co., 1952, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, glazed pictorial boards, contains about 50 one-panel cartoons from the syndicated newspaper strip. The first Dennis collection. Light foxing/spotting to covers, clean copy otherwise.

Hardcover. NY, Simon & Schuster , 1st, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. Color cartoon illustrations by Lorenz. In glossy boards with mild spine fade. No dust jacket. Tight copy.

Hardcover. New York, Henry Holt, 1st, 2014, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Non-paginated. Hardcover. Extensive color illustrations by Kyrsten Brooker throughout. Illustrated endpapers and paste downs. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.

Hardcover. Seattle, WA, Fantagraphics, 1st, 2015, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 304 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. The Secret Origins of King Kong, and the Urge to Destroy New York. Color pictures throughout. This comic strip by cartooning pioneer Winsor McCay, titled simply Dino, opens a surprising new window into McCay's life and work and showcases his exquisitely beautiful and delicate delineations (exactingly reproduced from the original art). Merkl explores the influences McCay brought to the strip-including McCay's own Gertie the Dinosaur animated shorts, the animation in 1933's King Kong, and the growth of New York City from the Holland Tunnel to the Empire State Building-and traces our love of dinosaurs and monster movies down through the decades. Oversized. DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY.

Hardcover. New York, Scholastic Press, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a pristine dust jacket. Non-paginated. SIGNED BY ILLUSTRATOR BRIAN SELZNICK ON TITLE PAGE. Full color illustrations. Clean, bright copy.

Hardcover. New York, Quill William Morrow, 1st, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Non-paginated. Softcover with paper wrappers. Black and white drawings by Callahan throughout. Tight copy.

Hardcover. NY, Ars Edition, 1st US, 1981, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial glazed boards. Approximately 5 3/4" x 4 3/4", 18 pages. English version by June Head. Bohatta was a Austrian writer/artist whose titles were republished in the U.S. in small printings. Charming color illustrations. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Boston, Bulfinch Press, 1st, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Non-paginated. Hardcover with dust jacket. Bright color illustrations by Keith Haring. Clean, tight copy, minor wear to edges. Dust jacket has moderate wear on bottom edge, including small tear.

Hardcover. NY, Hyperion, 1st, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 112 pages. There's English, of course, and Hebrew, and let's not forget Yiddish and Ladino. But the language Jews have mastered is saying one thing and meaning another. And after a while, everyone understands the real meaning of the "lie." Esther Cohen has been listening all her life. She's written down what she's heard, and the result is this small book with a big punch: the first ever list of these subtle (sort of), sly (very), and hilarious Jewish "lies." New Yorker cartoonist Roz Chast is a master interpreter of lies herself--bringing this particular set to life in her inimitably quirky style. Don't Mind Me is a unique compilation of all-too-familiar phrases guaranteed to make you smile. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, American Heritage Press, 1st, 1971, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, price-clipped dust jacket. Gary Trudeau's first book of Doonesbury cartoons, which originally appeared in the Yale Record and Yale Daily News. Subtitled: The popular cartoon strip featuring B.D., star Quarterback; Megaphone Mark, campus radical; and Michael J. Doonesbury, would-be lover. Written and illustrated by G.B. (Gary) Trudeau; foreword by Erich Segal. Dust jacket with light edge wear, clean copy.

Hardcover. Middle Village, NY, Jonathan David Publishers, reprint, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 368 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Extensive b&w illustrations throughout. Gilt titles on spine. Light edge wear to dust jacket, otherwise clean, tight copy. Featuring hundreds of gems that delight the eye as well as the heart, Drawing a Crowd brings together the best of the work of distinguished New York Daily News cartoonist Bill Gallo. Laugh, ponder, even shed a tear as Bill, Basement Bertha, Yuchie, and the rest of the Gallo cast of characters relive the most memorable sports moments of the past forty years and share some little-known things about some very well-known people. Here, you'll experience the magnificence of a Michael Jordan and the reticence of a Sandy Koufax, the fury of a Vince Lombardi and the dignity of an Arthur Ashe, the grace of a Nancy Kerrigan and the majesty of a Sugar Ray Robinson. In Drawing a Crowd, you'll also come to know the personal Gallo: the eleven-year-old who suddenly lost a father; the resilient young man who landed a job as a News copyboy; the Marine who saw comrades fall on the black sands of Iwo Jima; the gentleman's gentleman who has earned the respect and friendship of the greats of our time. Peppered with the artists unique perspective, good-natured wit, and reminiscences on everyone from Ali to Joe D, Sinatra to Stengel, Torre to Trump, Broadway Joe to Johnny U, Drawing a Crowd demonstrates why Bill Gallo, long a New York secret, is truly a national treasure.

Hardcover. NY, Liveright, 1st, 2012, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 272 pages. Who could have imagined that in 1972, when Aline Kominsky, a Long Island escapee and bodaciously talented artist, broke her foot one rainy fall day, it would result in the most unique collaboration in comics history? Laid up in her house, she was persuaded by R. Crumb, her nerdy, neurotic boyfriend, to pass the time drawing together a "two-man" comic. The result is a jaw-dropping yet tender account, not only of the joys and challenges of a legendary marriage but also of the obstacles faced by struggling female artists. In Drawn Together, our foremost male-female cartooning couple recall their success at shocking America with Weirdo Magazine, the life-altering birth of their precocious daughter Sophie, and their astonishing move to the safe haven of France. With an irresistible introduction and a striking four-color section, Drawn Together becomes a graphic cause-celebre and a must-have for any comics devotee.

Hardcover. London, Knockabout Comics, 1st, 2012, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 264 pages. Hardcover, no dust jacket issued. Extensive b&w and color illustrations by the two Crumbs. Illustrated paste downs and end papers. Includes appendix of portraits. Clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. NY, Abrams, 1st, 2010, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. From its first issue in April, 1970, the National Lampoon blazed like a comet, defining comedy as we know it today. To create Drunk Stoned Brilliant Dead, former Lampoon illustrator Rick Meyerowitz selected the funniest material from the magazine and sought out the survivors of its first electrifying decade to gather their most revealing and outrageous stories. The result is a mind-boggling tour through the early days of an institution whose alumni left their fingerprints all over popular culture: Animal House, Caddyshack, Saturday Night Live, Ghostbusters, SCTV, Spinal Tap, In Living Color, Ren & Stimpy, The Simpsons--even Sesame Street counts a few Lampooners among its ranks. 320 pages, mostly color.