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Society Is Nix

Gleeful Anarchy at the Dawn of the American Comic Strip 1895-1915 Revised Edition

Author: Peter Maresca  

Society Is Nix
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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."

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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."

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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 colour 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 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. The classic strips, most not printed in over 100 years, are presented in their original colours 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!

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Critic Reviews

A collection that represents the birth of the medium itself, and Maresca's approach is stunning and simple...--Chip Kidd "The Wall Street Journal"
A mind-blowing portable museum retrospective of the raw, tangled ferocity and frustration that went into the making of America.--Chris Ware
An essential primer on the Big Bang of comic strips that occurred at the turn of the last century.-- "The New York Times"
Full of surprises...curiously refreshing.--Steven Heller "The Atlantic"
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"
Succeeds far beyond any expectations-- "The Comics Journal"
This one's a must-have...a wide and wild assortment of early twentieth-century comic art with spectacularly imaginative and innovative layouts.-- "Print Magazine"

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About the Author

Peter Maresca is the multiple Eisner and Harvey Award-winning publisher of high-quality, full-sized collections of classic American newspaper strips. His Sunday Press books represent a high-water mark in the reproduction and preservation of American comic strips. Maresca changed the concept of comic reprints in 2005 with his original-sized Little Nemo in Slumberland: So Many Splendid Sundays, Winsor McCay's groundbreaking strip. He continued with Sundays with Walt & Skeezix (Frank King's Gasoline Alley), George Herriman's Krazy Kat, Chester Gould's Dick Tracy, and a dozen others. Maresca lives a relatively non-virtual life in Palo Alto, CA.

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Product Details

Publisher
Fantagraphics
Published
15th July 2025
Pages
167
ISBN
9798875000607

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