This title features over 25 essays looking at all aspects of the comic form - from comic strips to graphic novels, and beyond. This groundbreaking volume presents nearly thirty essays on a wide variety of comic forms - such as gag cartoons, editorial cartoons, comic strips, comic books, manga, and g[...]

The prelude to the "Walt and Skeezix" series offers a portrait of a country in transition "Walt Before Skeezix" collects the first years of Frank King's beloved comic strip "Gasoline Alley"--one of the most widely read and syndicated strips of its time, which is still syndicated today. These comics,[...]