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Insider Histories of Cartooning : Rediscovering Forgotten Famous Comics and Their Creators.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, 2014Copyright date: ©2014Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (193 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781626740778
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Insider Histories of CartooningDDC classification:
  • 741.5/973
LOC classification:
  • PN6725 -- .H386 2014eb
Online resources:
Contents:
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 Cartoonist -- 9. 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 -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.
Summary: From a cartoonist and a veteran writer on the history of comics, a joyous reclamation of cartooning geniuses.
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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 Cartoonist -- 9. 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 -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.

From a cartoonist and a veteran writer on the history of comics, a joyous reclamation of cartooning geniuses.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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