The Devil in Design

The Devil in Design The Krampus Postcards

2nd Fantagraphics Books Edition

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Publisher's Synopsis

A fascinating, full-colour compendium of extremely rare, late 19th and early 20th century Krampus postcards culled from key postcard collections around the world, this lavishly illustrated book features over 150 striking and stylised full-page examples, as well as a short introduction tracing the character's origin and overwhelming popularity throughout Europe. Saint Nicholas's dark servant, Krampus is a hairy, horned, supernatural beast who paid a visit each year to disobedient children, punishing them until they promised to be good!

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: 9781560975427
Publisher: Fantagraphics
Imprint: Fantagraphics Books
Pub date:
Edition: 2nd Fantagraphics Books Edition
DEWEY: 741.683
DEWEY edition: 21
Language: English
Number of pages: 167
Weight: 308g
Height: 198mm
Width: 129mm
Spine width: 15mm