This 190 page horizontally formatted volume rescues from obscurity a comic strip that is after the heart of the long suffering fans of the daily newspaper comic strip. Originally published from 1961 through 1963, Sam's Strip takes the standard form of the three - four panel gag strip, but it adds to this another layer. This layer consists of references to the medium of comics, both the content -- primarily that of the characters that populate the strips which fill our daily papers and takes the form of walk-on appearances by the likes of Dick Tracy, Charlie Brown, Jiggs, The Yellow Kid and many others -- and the form -- in the taking apart of the mechanics of comics communication. While this sort of thing is relatively commonplace in the comics pages of today, and has, of course, a precursor in Harvey Kurtzman & Co's work in the original Mad that predates Sam's Strip by a full decade, this work was unique in the funny pages of it's day, and it is collected in its entirety here. Take a sneak peek, by downloading a hefty 30-strip preview here .
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Epic, career-spanning, 70-page interview with Beetle Bailey creator, Mort Walker by R.C. Harvey
Emmanuel Guibert interviewed by Matthias Wivel
3-page "cartoon interview" (i.e., in comics) with Frank Stack by Noah Van Sciver
Classic Comics Reprint: This time around it's a two-fer – Over twenty pages of illustrations by late-18th Century proto-cartoonist Thomas Rowlandson, accmpanied by a twenty-page, illustrated, archival essay by early 20th-centuy socialist cartoonist, Art Young!
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Originally published in 1980 – and adapted from the 1974 exhibition of the same name – this legendary work has at last been brought back into print by New York Review Comics in a new edition, complete with a new foreword by Chris Ware!
This 128 page black and white softcover assembled a visual dictionary of comics-specific terminology that NYRC calls "a joyously exhaustive cheat sheet to key comics visuals that has been referenced and treasured by generations of cartoonists."
An ideal gift for the long-suffering comics nerd in your life.
