<<•>> edited by Patrick McDonnell and Peter Maresca <<•>> Yes, it's true!!! Sunday Press, the fine folks who brought us the game-changing Little Nemo in Slumberland: So Many Splendid Sundays, and its myriad Sunday strip sequels have at last seen their way clear to produce an equivalent volume of that greatest of all( well, at least to us here at Copacetic) Sunday strips, the work that introduced poetry to comics: the one and only Krazy Kat, by George Herriman. Finally, KRAZY KAT as it was meant to be seen: 135 full-size Sunday pages from 1916-1944 Plus, dozens more early comics from George Herriman. Included in this splediferous 14 x 17-inch collection is a sampling of each of Herriman's creations for the Sunday newspaper comics from 1901-1906: Professor Otto, The Two Jackies, Major Ozone, and more, many of which have never been reprinted before. HERE are some sample pages, BUT the whole idea of this book is lost in reading them on a computer screen, so think twice before clicking over: you may want to wait for the real thing.
Dauntless Dames is the latest in the series of beautiful mega-sized (13" x 17") hardcover collections of classic newspaper comicstrips from Sunday Press. Edited by Trina Robbins and Sunday Press publisher, Peter Maresca, Dauntless Dames is a feast for the eyes. An amazing amalgamation of classic Sunday pages featuring women protagonists, many of which were also created by women, including Pittsburgh's own Jackie Ormes, including some super rare strips from The Pittsburgh Courier!
We'll provide a bit more info soon, but suffice it to say that this volume includes page after oversize page – 160 in all – of classic full color (and along with a small smattering of monochrome and black & white) strips including Miss Fury, Connie, Brenda Starr, Flyin’ Jenny, Invisible Scarlet O’Neill, Myra North: Special Nurse, Cairo Jones, Deathless Deer, and Torchy Brown!, all of which were originally published in the 1930s, '40s & '50s (and at least a handful – of Brenda Starr strips – from 1960). Amazing!
NEW YEAR'S SPECIAL! >> only TWO copies at this price <<
This book's full title, The Nancy Show: Celebrating the Art of Ernie Bushmiller – A Catalogue Accompanying the Exhibition at the Billy Ireland Cartoon Library & Museum – pretty much sums it up. For those of you who don't expect to be able to visit the exhibition in person, this horizontally formatted, 12" x 9", 152 page, flexicover volume does a great job of presenting it to you in the comfort of your reading chair. It features 72 big pages of high resolution scans of the original Bushmiller art along with 36 pages of full color reproductions of Nancy Sunday pages, plus plenty of pics of Nancy memorabilia and ephemera, an essay by exhibition curator Brian Walker and more – including a Special Bonus Gift: inserted in the rear of the book is a fold-out sheet of Nancy gift-wrapping paper, composed of a collage of dozens of classic Nancy panels, suitable for wrapping the book itself or anything else one might give to a Nancy lover, yes – BUT, you're more likely to want to frame it and hang it on the wall! So, with all that on offer – and for a quite reasonable price, we might add, even those who managed to make it to the exhibit in person are likely to want to take a copy home with them.
A must for all true Nancy fans!
This long out of print collection from the formidable and inimitable Sunday Press is now back in print at last in this new, expanded edition co-published by Sunday Press and Fantagraphics!
Here's the Fanta hype up:
A revised and expanded edition of the Eisner-nominated book on the earliest American comics, with over 200 classic strips, by over 75 cartoonists: the “Founders of the Funnies.”
“Mit Dose Kids, SOCIETY IS NIX!” So said The Inspector about the Katzenjammer Kids. But he could have been speaking of all comic strips in their formative years in the early 1900s. From the very first color Sunday supplement, comics were a driving force in newspaper sales, offering a wild parody of the world and the culture found in the surrounding pages. Society didn't stand a chance!
These are the origins of the American comic strip, born at a time when there were no set styles or formats, when creators had the freedom to experiment, when artistic anarchy helped spawn a new medium. The few existing rules were broken, and new ones were created. Unique uses of layout and presentation of dialog and characters exploded on the pages in full color, showing new possibilities in graphic storytelling.
The genesis of comics is laid out in a dozen essays by the greatest in their field—historians like Thierry Smolderen, Brian Walker, Alfredo Castelli, Bill Kartalopoulos, Paul C. Tumey and others. And in the second, revised edition of this seminal collection: over 200 comic strips! The earliest comics by acknowledged greats like R. F. Outcault, George McManus, Winsor McCay, and George Herriman, along with creations of more than fifty other superb cartoonists, known and unknown. Collectively they are “The Founders of the Funnies”. The classic strips, most not printed in over 100 years, are presented in their original colors at the incredible oversized format Sunday Press is known for: all the better to see the comics that would inspire the next century of comics to come!
Praise
"Never thought anything like this could exist outside my dream life." — Art Spiegelman
"An essential primer on the Big Bang of comic strips that occurred at the turn of the last century." — The New York Times
"Peter Maresca's outsized and outlandish anthology shows just how sensational this newspaper art form was in its early years." — The New York Review of Books
"A mind-blowing portable museum retrospective of the raw, tangled ferocity and frustration that went into the making of America." — Chris Ware
"Full of surprises...curiously refreshing." — Steven Heller - The Atlantic
Pages: 168 | Format: Hardback | Color: Full-color | Dimensions: 13.2" × 16.8" | ISBN-13: 9798875000607
