Publisher's Synopsis
THE COMPLETE SKIPPY continues the first-ever series to reprint the
legendary Skippy comic strips by Percy Crosby. Volume two contains all daily
comics from 1928 through 1930. The introduction details Crosby's life during
Skippy's transition from Life magazine to the newspaper page and those
first years of the strip's wild success.
"Percy Crosby's Skippy might well be the great forgotten comic strip of the 20th century."-Chris Mautner, CBR
"Cartoonist Percy Crosby has long been acknowledged as one of the great early cartoonists, both for his precision draftsmanship and as the first cartoonist to place philosophical ideas into the mouths of children."-The Comics Journal
Co-edited by Jared Gardner and Dean Mullaney, designed by Lorraine Turner, and illustrated with many photographs and rare artwork from the collection of the cartoonist's daughter, Joan Crosby Tibbetts, and Skippy, Inc.
"Percy Crosby's Skippy might well be the great forgotten comic strip of the 20th century."-Chris Mautner, CBR
"Cartoonist Percy Crosby has long been acknowledged as one of the great early cartoonists, both for his precision draftsmanship and as the first cartoonist to place philosophical ideas into the mouths of children."-The Comics Journal
Co-edited by Jared Gardner and Dean Mullaney, designed by Lorraine Turner, and illustrated with many photographs and rare artwork from the collection of the cartoonist's daughter, Joan Crosby Tibbetts, and Skippy, Inc.
