MULLINS GOLDEN AGE BASEBALL DRAWINGS HC 1934-1972 (9781606996393)
Opis produktu
THE FIRST-EVER RETROSPECTIVE OF THE DEAN OF AMERICAN SPORTS CARTOONING In Fantagraphics' ceaseless effort to rediscover every world-class cartoonist in the history of the medium, we turn your attention to a neglected part of the art form-sports cartooning-and to its greatest practitioner -- Willard Mullin. The years 1930-1970 were the Golden Age of both American sports and American comic strips, when giants strode their respective fields -- Babe Ruth, Lou Gehrig, and Hank Aaron in one, George (Krazy Kat) Herriman, Milton (Steve Canyon) Caniff, Walt (Pogo) Kelly in the other -- and Mullin was there, straddling both fields, recording every major player and event in the mid-20th-century history of baseball. Mullin was to baseball players what Bill Mauldin was to soldiers: advocate and critic, investing them with personality, humanity, dignity, and poignancy; Mauldin had Willie & Joe and Mullin had the Brooklyn Bum, his affectionate 1939 character representing the bedraggled figure of the Brooklyn Dodgers. Willard Mullin's Golden Age of Baseball: Drawings 1934-1972 collects for the first
Szczegóły produktu
Scenariusz | Willard Mullin |
Rysunki | Willard Mullin |
Okładka | Willard Mullin |
Oprawa | twarda |
Liczba stron | 200 |
Cena okładkowa | 35.00 $ |
Druk | kolorowy |
Sugerowany dla dorosłych | Tak |
Rodzaj | Wydanie zbiorcze |
Język | angielski |
Stan | Nowy |
Kod ISBN | 9781606996393 |