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The Art of the Funnies
Exploration of the comic strip for elements that make the funnies one of the most appealing of the popular arts
Cartoons of the Roaring Twenties
The cartoons in this collection capture the flavor of American life in the '20s but, while the cartoons reflect the tenor of the times, they are not a mirror image but a refraction, an image distorted by the attitudes of the times toward contemporary events. Women, for instance, are not depicted as responsible citizens, newly enfranchised. Instead, they seem vain, fickle, trivial, and wholly incapable of rational thought or practical enterprise. This is not an accurate portrayal of women at the time, but a reflection of the times: women are ridiculed and made to seem silly precisely because they were suddenly more visible in society. As new arrivals, they are held up to examination: the ster...
A Cockeyed Menagerie
The long-overdue, definitive career retrospective of an early-20th-century gag cartoonist. From the 1880s to the Roaring 1920s, Sullivant took to the drawing board and dreamed up all manner of hilarious gag cartoons featuring animals of all stripes, perennial American "types" like hayseeds and hobos, and classic characters from myths and biblical tales. These comics haven’t seen the light of day since their initial appearance in pioneering humor magazines like Puck and Judge over a century ago. Includes essays by John Cuneo, Peter de Seve, Barry Blitt, Steve Brodner, Rick Marshall, Nancy Beiman, and R.C. Harvey, with a foreword by cartoonist Jim Woodring.
Manliness
In the wake of the monstrous projects of Hitler, Stalin, Mao, and others in the twentieth century, the idea of utopia has been discredited. Yet, historian Jay Winter suggests, alongside the 'major utopians' who murdered millions in their attempts to transform the world were disparate groups of people trying in their own separate ways to imagine a radically better world. This original book focuses on some of the twentieth-century's 'minor utopias' whose stories, overshadowed by the horrors of the Holocaust and the Gulag, suggest that the future need not be as catastrophic as the past. The book is organized around six key moments when utopian ideas and projects flourished in Europe: 1900 (the ...
Meanwhile...
The comprehensive biography of one of the 20th century's most influential cartoonists, the legendary creator of Steve Canyon and Terry and the Pirates. This book analyzes his storytelling techniques, examines his artistic innovations and work routines, and serves as a history of the medium. Milton Caniff was one of the most influential American cartoonists of the 20th century. He rose to prominence during World War II when he took the characters in his Terry and the Pirates strip into the war. The trenchant pragmatic patriotism of the strip warmed hearts and steeled nerves on the home front as well as the battlefront (one of his strips was read into the Congressional Record). He went on to c...
