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Insider histories of cartooning : rediscovering forgotten famous comics and their creators /
"Many fans and insiders alike have never heard of Bill Hume, Bailin' Wire Bill, Abe Martin, AWOL Wally, the Texas History Movies, or the Weatherbird at the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. And many insiders do not know why we call comic books "comics" even though lots of them are not at...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Jackson :
University Press of Mississippi,
[2014]
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; Contents; A Word to the Fore: Insider Histories of Cartooning; 1. Preambling by the Milestones: Comics Acquire Their Distinctive Lineaments; 2. Defining and Describing Comics: Separating the Canines from the Equuses; 3. Why Call Them "Comics"?: An Impotent Act of Philosophical Rigor; 4. The Longest-Running Comics: With an Unexpected Winner; 5. Opper's Happy and the First Dean of American Cartooning: The Reputed First Definitive Comic Strip; 6. The Countryboy Cartoonist of National Fame: Abe Martin and Kin Hubbard Explained; 7. AWOL Wally: The Most Famous Doughboy You Never Heard About.
- 8. Withdrawing the Color Line: The First Famous African American Cartoonist9. Wild 'n' Woolly American Mythology: A Ramblin' Rundown in Search of Authentic Cowboyin' in Strips; 10. Slaphappy Heroicism: A Last Duo Act for Superman's Creators; 11. Magazine Cartooning with Playboy's First Cartoonist: And Some Others of the Same Lovelorn Ilk; 12. Swords' Point Skewers Sexist Stereotyping: A Woman Cartoonist Pioneering Feminism; 13. Bill Hume and Babysan: Fame in the Far East, Unknown in the West; 14. The Old Soldier Fades Away: After Half-a-Century of Unstuffing Shirts; Bibliography; Index; A; B.
- CD; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z.