OK, here's the scoop:  This volume is co-produced by Sunday Press and is a revised and expanded edition of their earlier, Eisner-Award nominated classic collection (THIS ONE).  So, those of you who already have the earlier volume may want to think twice beore plunking down for this one (unless you have a ready recipient for the earlier one, thenit's one for you, one for them: win/win).  For those E.C. Segar fans who missed the first volume,wel then, this new edition is your reprieve – and quite a treat.

 

Here's the Fanta Hype-up:

 

More than a decade before he created the world’s most famous cartoon sailor, Elzie Crisler Segar began his comics career in the movies. He drew cartoons for silent movie theater slides, the Charlie Chaplin comic strip, and a daily strip about Chicago’s movies and entertainment. Then, in 1919, he penned his own “small screen” creation for the newspapers, Thimble Theatre, where Popeye was to be born a decade later. This comprehensive volume features examples of all of E.C. Segar’s early comics and illustrations, with over 100 pre-Popeye Thimble Theatre Sunday pages including the complete run of the famed Western desert saga, a series that rivals his later work in superb art, storytelling, and humor.

Newly revised and expanded, this new printing contains ten additional pages plus a 1920s-style Sunday comics section insert paying tribute to Segar and his comic creations featuring Charlie Chaplin’s Comic Capers and Popeye’s “The Jeep.”

Text and illustrations offer an in-depth history and commentary on the life and work of E. C. Segar by historians Paul C. Tumey and Jeet Heer, and best-selling author and journalist Michael Tisserand.

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