Top Hats and Flappers

Top Hats and Flappers The Art of Russell Patterson

1st Fantagraphics Books Edition

Hardback (13 Jul 2006)

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Publisher's Synopsis

The definitive collection of a legend from the golden age of magazine illustration. One of the most influential artists of his generation, Patterson's impact spanned decades. The list of Patterson's alumni' ranged from virtually every published sexy girl cartoonists to notables like Walt Disney and Hugh Hefner, who noted it was Patterson, Not John Held, Jr or F. Scott Fitzgerald, who best defined the strut and fret of American life between the two World Wars.'

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: 9781560977377
Publisher: Fantagraphics
Imprint: Fantagraphics Books
Pub date:
Edition: 1st Fantagraphics Books Edition
DEWEY: 741.5973
DEWEY edition: 22
Language: English
Number of pages: 182
Weight: 1050g
Height: 300mm
Width: 228mm
Spine width: 16mm