Insider histories of cartooning : rediscovering forgotten famous comics and their creators / Robert C. Harvey.

9781626740778 (ebook) :

Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, 2015.

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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 all funny. The author (cartoonist and a veteran comics critic, author of several histories of comics and biographies of cartoonists) tells forgotten stories of a dozen now obscure but once famous cartoonists and their creations. He also includes accounts of the cartooning careers of a groundbreaking African American and a woman who broke into an industry once dominated by white men. Many of the better-known stories in some of the book's 14 chapters are wrapped around fugitive scraps of information that are almost unknown.

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May 03, 2016

Includes bibliographical references and index.