Art Out of Time : Unknown Comics Visionaries, 1900-1969 by Nadel, Dan

NY: Abrams, 2006. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Hardcover, 320 pages. There are lots of anthologies of the work of the past century's famous cartoonists, but Nadel has done a real service in putting together this collection of 29 marvelous, nearly unknown comic strip and comic book artists. Many are reprinted from yellowing newsprint—in a few cases, like Walter Quermann's late-'30s newspaper strip Hickory Hollow Folks, from the only copies of their work still extant. Only a few, like Ogden Whitney's poker-faced '60s comic book Herbie, have ever been reprinted before. Nadel's five categories, "Exercises in Exploration," "Slapstick," "Acts of Drawing," "Words in Pictures" and "Form and Style," sometimes seem arbitrary; the biographical notes at the back are informative but all too brief. Still, it's hard to argue with the comics themselves. Charles Forbell's 1913 newspaper strip Naughty Pete looks like it had a huge influence on Chris Ware; Gustave Verbeek's bonkers formal experiment The… Read More

New York: Abrams, 2006. Near Fine/Very Good +. New York: Abrams, 2006. First Edition. Quarto; publisher's boards in pictorial dust jacket; 318pp.; color illus. throughout. Minor shelf wear and spine lean, else Near Fine. A lavish production.

Harry N. Abrams, 2006-06-01. Hardcover. New. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title!

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