Ronald Searle's America

Ronald Searle's America

Hardback (14 Jan 2016)

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Publisher's Synopsis

This lavishly produced volume compiles drawings and illustrations by the legendary Ronald Searle that have been virtually unseen by the public since their original publication in the 1960s. During this golden age of illustrative reportage, Ronald Searle - an influence on historic figures as wide-ranging as Matt Groening, Pat Oliphant and John Lennon - was sent by American magazines such as Holiday and LIFE to far-flung and exotic locations. He would report back with a raft of drawings detailing his observations and experience in his trademark satirical and virtuoso style.

About the Publisher

Fantagraphics Books

Fantagraphics Books

Fantagraphics Books has been a leading proponent of comics as a legitimate form of art and literature since it began publishing the critical trade magazine The Comics Journal in 1976. By the early 1980s, Fantagraphics found itself at the forefront of the burgeoning movement to establish comics as a medium as eloquent and expressive as the more established popular arts of film, literature, poetry, et al. Fantagraphics quickly established a reputation as an advocacy publisher that specialized in seeking out and publishing the kind of innovative work that traditional comics corporations who dealt almost exclusively in super-heroes and fantasy either didn?t know existed or wouldn?t touch: serious, dramatic, historical, journalistic, political, and satirical work by a new generation of alternative cartoonists as well as many artists who gained prominence as part of the seminal underground comix movement of the '60s. Fantagraphics has since gained an international reputation for its literate and audacious editorial standards and its exacting production values.

Book information

ISBN: 9781606998434
Publisher: Fantagraphics
Imprint: Fantagraphics Books
Pub date:
DEWEY: 741.092
DEWEY edition: 23
Language: English
Number of pages: 366
Weight: 2698g
Height: 284mm
Width: 358mm
Spine width: 29mm