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Softcover. New York , Ballantine Books, 1st thus, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 320 pages, b&w art by R. Crumb, Kevin Brown, Gregory Budgett and others. Clean, bright paperback. The classic collection of the comics that inspired the movie "American "Splendor, winner of the Grand Jury Prize at the 2003 Sundance Film Festival "American Splendor is the world's first literary comic book. Cleveland native Harvey Pekar is a true American original. A V.A. hospital file clerk and comic book writer, Harvey chronicles the ordinary and mundane in stories both funny and touching. His dead-on eye for the frustrations and minutiae of the workaday world mix in a delicate balance with his insight into personal relationships. Pekar has been compared to Dreiser, Dostoevsky, and Lenny Bruce. But he is truly more than all of them--he is himself. "Mr. Pekar has . . . proven that comics can address the ambiguities of daily living, that like the finest fiction, they can hold a mirror up to life."

Hardcover. New York, D. Appleton & Co., 1st, 1872, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 74 pages. Hardcover. Green Pebbled cloth. Gilt title and decoration on front cover. Black & white illustrations by Toby. Front endpaper has been removed. Previous owners name on inside front cover and preliminary page. Moderate fraying at bottom of spine, light rubbing to corners. All edges gilt. Clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. Chicago, Rand McNally , 1st Thus, 1947, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Non-paginated. Hardcover. Black & white cartoons by Gaar Williams. Dust jacket with chipping along edges - jacket now protected with clear plastic cover. Clean, unmarked pages.

Softcover. New York, Avon, 1st, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Non-paginated. Softcover with light wear to paper wrappers. Light soil to pages. Tight copy.

Hardcover. Seattle, Fantagraphics, 1st, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Eldon Dedini has been one of Playboy's most recognizable full-page gag cartoonists. With a masterful watercolor technique that burlesques a broad range of subjects, from East and West Coast urban and suburban adult-hipster to classical Japanese erotic prints, Dedini's most personal cartoons rely on mythology and legend. They evoke a bucolic sexually-liberated paradise that leaves his readers lingering over the imagery long after the gag registers. The Art of Playboy's Eldon Dedini is the first retrospective collection of his work, and gathers in one volume the most sophisticated, elegant, and funny gag panels of the past six decades.

Hardcover. New York, McGraw-Hill, 1st, 1960, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 128 pages illustrated in b&w by the Berenstains. Decorated boards with orange cloth spine. Missing dust jacket.

Hardcover. Boston, Little Brown , 1st, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. 306 pages, b&w photos. Best known for his sweet-natured character Latka on Taxi, Andy Kaufman was the most influential comic of the generation that produced David Letterman, John Belushi, and Robin Williams. A regular on the early days of Saturday Night Live (where he regularly disrupted planned skits), Kaufman quickly became known for his idiosyncratic roles and for performances that crossed the boundaries of comedy, challenging expectations and shocking audiences. Kaufmans death from lung cancer at age 35 (hed never smoked) stunned his fans and the comic community that had come to look to him as its lightning rod and standard bearer. Bob Zmuda, Kaufmans closest friend, producer, writer, and straight man, breaks his twenty-year silence about Kaufman and unmasks the man he knew better than anyone. He chronicles Kaufmans meteoric rise, the development of his extraordinary personas, the private man behind the driven actor and comedian, and answers the question most often asked: Did Andy Kaufman fake his own death?

Softcover. Los Angeles, The 3-D Zone, 1st, 1989, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Rare comic book, stapled softcover. Comics are drawings only, with no text. 3-D glasses are still attached to inside, as issued. Book has slight shelf wear on spine side. 64 pages. Mild waviness to pages.

Softcover. Berkeley CA, Print Mint, 1st, 1975, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 44 pages. An anthology comic. Cover art by R. Crumb. Sawney Beane bio. Let's Talk Sense About This Here Modern America, script and art by Robert Crumb; Crumb rants about America. Gilbert Shelton's Advanced Motoring Tips. Where Are They Now?, script and art by Kim Deitch; A reporter learns about a practical joker. A Couch in the Sun, script and art by Bill Griffith; biography of Henri Rousseau. Who Killed Lenny Bruce? article, art by Crumb. Goethe's Faust, script and art by Justin Green.

Softcover. Berkeley, Print Mint, 1st, 1976, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover comic, 8.25 x 10.75", with 52 pages, including semi-glossy color wraps and b/w interior. An anthology comic. Cover art by Jay Lynch. Crybaby's Blues, script and art by Robert Crumb; the harshness of life. Comedia Dell' Zippy starring Zippy The Pinhead, script and art by Bill Griffith; Outlawed clowns put on a show. The Great Ajeeb, Chess Playing Automaton, script and art by Kim Deitch; fake chess playing machine. The Corpse Gobblin' Ogre of Columbite Mountain, script and art by S. Clay Wilson. A Modern Mystery starring Arnold Peck, script and art by Willy Murphy. Some Boxes for the Salvation Army, script and art by Art Spiegelman. The Calvin Coolidge Story, script by Jim Hoberman, art by Kim Deitch. Gotterdammerung, script and art by Spain Rodriguez.

Hardcover. US, Dark Horse Books, 1st thus, 2015, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 247 pages. Color illustrations throughout. Like new in publisher's shrink-wrap. You know Jughead as Archie's loyal sidekick, but wait until you see the trouble he can get up to on his own! Cheer as Jug matches wits with Archie's rival Reggie, gasp as he tests nutty experiments with his Uncle Herman, and marvel as he eats dozens upon dozens of burgers and shakes! With twice the mischief, twice the pranks, and twenty times the food, Jughead Archives takes you to the weirder side of Riverdale, in this uproarious volume illustrated by beloved Archie artists Samm Schwartz and George Frese! Collects Jughead #1#8 from 1949 to 1950.

Hardcover. San Diego, CA, IDW Publishing, 1st, 2012, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 160 pages. Hardcover with laminated boards. Clean, tight copy. Color comics throughout.

Softcover. Seattle, Fantagraphics, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 120 pages. All cartoonists are geniuses, wrote John Updike, "but Arnold Roth especially so. He's an American original; irreverent, tireless, manicky, and secretly efficient... his work jumps with joy." You won't find better proof of this argument than this book, a generous, career-spanning collection of Roth's best cartoons and painted illustrations, originally created to serve as a catalog for a long-overdue gallery exhibition of this master cartoonist's work. From his early cartoons through his eye-popping and imaginative color illustrations for such magazines as Playboy, Esquire, TV Guide and Sports Illustrated, this book will delight any fan of superior cartooning. Color and black-and-white illustrations throughout

Softcover. Rockville ID, Rockville Republican, 1st, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, stapled binding, a collection of b&w cartoons that ran in the Rockville Republican newspaper in Indiana depicting small town and rural life in the 1930s and 40s, much in the style of John McCutcheon. No date but last cartoon suggests it was 1943 and issued by the paper as a Christmas keepsake to it's readers. Clean.

Hardcover. San Francisco, Ten Speed Press, 1st, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. Color, b&w illustrations. THE ART OF S. CLAY WILSON is the long-awaited career retrospective of the most extreme of the Zap cartoonists of the late 1960s. A self-described "graphic agoraphobe," Wilson draws manically dense scenes of lurid mayhem that rank among the seminal works of underground, counterculture American art. It's all here, from the classic chronicles of the Checkered Demon to salacious stories about the pirates, prostitutes, and poets that inhabit Wilson's divinely depraved world.The definitive collection of the art of legendary Zap comic artist S. Clay Wilson.Features 200 full-color images, including new work and previously unpublished prints commissioned for private collections.Introduction by R. Crumb touts Wilson's role as one of the originators of underground comix."Wilson was the strongest, most original artist of my generation that I had yet met. . . . There was something very familiar about the drawings, yet something entirely new, never before seen! It looked like folk art, like old-time tattoos, like some high school hotrodder's notebook drawings. They were rough, crazy, coarse, deeply American."

Softcover. College Park MD, University of Maryland Art Gallery, 1st, 1971, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 96 pages, oblong softcover. 43 b&w illustrations. Catalogue of 174 exhibits. Forewords by Alain de Leiris and Marchal E. Landgren; biographies of and notes on 116 American cartoonists, with bibliographical references for each; chronology of the American comic strip, 1846-1971. Light shelf wear.

Hardcover. New York, Harry N. Abrams, 1st, 2014, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 384 pages. Like new in publisher's shrink-wrap. In the 1940s Joe Simon and Jack Kirby started their partnership and created memorable characters such as Captain America and Sandman. This book includes artwork from Joe Simon's private archive, some of them have never been seen.

Softcover. San Francisco, Golden Gate Publishing, 1st, 1973, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, comic book. Standard Format and Size. First Printing (75 cent cover price). Color illustrated covers with black/white interior art. Without page numbers. All work by R Crumb.

Hardcover. New York, Thomas Y. Crowell & Co., 1st, 1905, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, B&w illustrations with comments pertaining to automobiles from Life magazine. Corner and edge wear and fade, otherwise, spotless and tight copy.

Hardcover. New York, Greenwillow, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 40 pages. Hardcover. SIGNED BY PRELUTSKY AND ZELINSKY ON TITLE PAGE. Bright, clean copy.

Hardcover. New York, Macmillan, 1st, 1956, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, illustrated boards with a red cloth spine. 140 pages illustrated with b&w cartoons by the Berenstains. Minor wear to covers otherwise clean, very good. No dust jacket.

Hardcover. NY, Henry Holt, 1st, 1954, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Glossy boards, unpaginated. B&w cartoons by Ketcham. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Simon And Schuster, 1st, 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 253 pages. Thirty-two essays by the New Yorker magazine humorist. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Nan A. Talese, 1st, 2010, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 440 pages, in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. The legendary cartoonist's candid, self-deprecating, and beautifully written memoir describes his childhood in the Bronx, evolution from "smart-ass kid into an enraged satirist" (with inspiration from a stint in the Army) and his later successes as a pioneer of the graphic novel and a collaborator with the likes of film greats Robert Altman, Mike Nichols and Jack Nicholson. SIGNED by Feiffer on title page.