The Comics Journal #299

The Comics Journal #299

Paperback (27 Aug 2009)

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Publisher's Synopsis

The Pirates and the Mouse (Fantagraphics, 2003) author Bob Levin tracks down a lost collection of unpublished strips by 190 of the world's most important cartoonists - including Will Eisner, Vaughn Bode, Jack Kirby, Harvey Kurtzman, Art Spiegelman, Arnold Roth, Bill Griffith, Ralph Steadman and Don Martin, as well as William Burroughs, Tom Wolfe and Frank Zappa. Levin reveals for the first time the whole catastrophic story of what might have been the comics anthology of the century.

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: 9781606991473
Publisher: Fantagraphics
Imprint: Fantagraphics Books
Pub date:
Language: English
Number of pages: 207
Weight: 494g
Height: 241mm
Width: 191mm
Spine width: 14mm