The Goat Getters: Jack Johnson, the Fight of the Century, and How a Bunch of Raucous Cartoonists Reinvented Comics
Jack Johnson, The Fight Of The Century, And How A Bunch Of Raucous Cartoonists Reinvented Comics
- Hardcover
320 pages
- Release Date
1 July 2018
Summary
A rip-roaring and exhaustively researched new take on the origin of the comic strip by one of the leading cartoon storytellers of our time.
With more than 500 period cartoons, The Goat Getters illustrates how comics were developed by such luminaries as Rube Goldberg, Tad Dorgan, and George Herriman in the sports and lurid crime pages of the daily newspaper. This wild bunch of West Coast-based cartoonists established the dynamic anatomy and bold, tough style that continue to influence …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781684051380 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 168405138X |
| Author: | Eddie Campbell |
| Publisher: | Idea & Design Works |
| Imprint: | Idea & Design Works |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 320 |
| Release Date: | 1 July 2018 |
| Weight: | 1.64kg |
| Dimensions: | 302mm x 240mm x 27mm |
| Series: | Studies in Comics and Cartoons |
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Critics Review
“A scintillating examination of how some legendary cartoonists helped change newspapers and its readership.” - Washington Times
“A scintillating examination of how some legendary cartoonists helped change newspapers and its readership.” –Washington Times“Armed with his meticulous eye for scholarship and an always-raucous storytelling instinct, (Eddie Campbell is) guaranteed to entertain as well as educate.” –World Literature Today“My hat is off to Eddie Campbell for his superb work in hunting down, cleaning up, and collecting together over 500 illustrations from those far-off golden days.” –Yesterday’s Papers
About The Author
Eddie Campbell
Publishers Weekly calls Eddie Campbell “one of the premier cartoonists of his generation.” Campbell has been writing and drawing comics since 1974, and is best known for his collaborations with Alan Moore (From Hell, A Disease of Language) and Neil Gaiman (The Truth is a Cave in the Black Mountains), as well as for Alec, his tour-de-force autobiographical series that Booklist called “a high-water mark in the graphic novel’s short history,” and the 1200-page epic Bacchus. Forthcoming is Bizarre Romance (in collaboration with Audrey Niffenegger).
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