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Masters of American Comics
John Carlin
Comic strips and comic books were among the most popular and influential forms of mass media in 20thcentury America.
Yale University Press
November 2005
328 pages
ISBN: 030011317X
Hardcover
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This fascinating book focuses on fifteen pioneering
cartoonists—ranging from Winsor McCay to Chris Ware—who
brought this genre to the highest level of artistic
expression and who had the greatest impact on the
development of the form. Organized chronologically, Masters of American Comics
explores the rise of newspaper comic strips and comic books
and considers their artistic development throughout the
century. Presenting a wide selection of original drawings
as well as progressive proofs, vintage printed Sunday
pages, and comic books themselves, the authors also look at
how the art of comics was transformed by artistic
innovation as well as by changes in popular taste,
economics, and printing conventions. First appearing in newspaper Sunday supplements, the comic
strip became immediately successful and created the largest
audience of any medium of its time. The comic book first
began as a way to print existing newspaper comics, then
subsequently established the mass popularity of superheroes
in the 1940s and 1950s before it matured as a vehicle for
independent personal expression in the underground comic
books and graphic novels of the 1960s. Included in the book are insightful and entertaining essays
on individual artists written by major figures in the
fields of comics, narrative illustration, literature,
popular culture, and art history. Masters of American
Comics convincingly positions the genre of comics into the
history of art and is destined to become a classic text for
years to come.
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