Walt and Skeezix: Book Four

Walt and Skeezix: Book Four

Author: Frank King

Publisher: Drawn and Quarterly

Published: 2010-04-13

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781897299395

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THE LONG-AWAITED NEW VOLUME FROM THE CRITICALLY ACCLAIMED ARCHIVAL COLLECTION OF FRANK KING'S CLASSIC STRIP In this fourth volume of Walt and Skeezix, the newly married Walt Wallet settles into domestic life with his wife, Phyllis, and their adopted son, Skeezix, but their family bliss is soon disrupted by a man who claims to be Skeezix's natural father. A long custody battle erupts, raising questions as to the importance of blood ties compared with a loving environment. Later, Walt and Phyllis have to deal with all the dilemmas of a young couple's life as their family starts to unexpectedly expand. This is the very stuff of life—paying the bills, nursing a sick child, finding the right job while spending quality time with family—expertly explored with cartoonist Frank King's unerring fidelity to reality. In unfolding the drama of the Wallet family's life, King displays his full mastery of long and complex narratives, which made his work a forerunner to the modern graphic novel. In his introduction to the series, Jeet Heer explores King's storytelling prowess and links the concerns of the strip with changes in American culture in the 1920s. Lavishly illustrated with King's family photos, the book is designed by Chris Ware, whose elegant and detail-rich books have revolutionized the graphic novel field.


Gasoline Alley: the Complete Sundays Volume 2 1923-1925

Gasoline Alley: the Complete Sundays Volume 2 1923-1925

Author: Frank King

Publisher:

Published: 2014

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781616553760

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Gasoline Alley was one of the most influential and critically-acclaimed comic strips of all time. Dark Horse is reprinting all of the colour Sundays from the 1920s, with this volume collecting the Sundays from 1923 through 1925. Readers will discover the abundant wonder and dazzling beauty in the world - as seen through the eyes of creator Frank King and his beloved characters, Walt and Skeezix - in some of Gasoline Alley's most artistically imaginative art!


Gasoline Alley

Gasoline Alley

Author: Frank King

Publisher:

Published: 2012

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781613774403

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"Forty-plus years earlier, Walt Wallet found baby Skeezix in a basket on his doorstep and in the 1964-1966 strips reproduced in this volume. Skeezix is now middle-aged and has a family of his own. For the first time since they appeared in newspapers fifty years ago, readers can enjoy these classic strips featuring Walt and his wife Phyllis, Skeezix and his wife Nina, Corky, Clovia, Slim, Avery, Mr. Pert, Joel, Rufus, and a whole cast of familiar characters. Reproduced from syndicate proofbooks and featuring an enlightening introduction by Rick Norwood."--


Red Ultramarine

Red Ultramarine

Author: Manuele Fior

Publisher: Fantagraphics Books

Published: 2019-05-22

Total Pages: 154

ISBN-13: 1683961889

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Fausto, a young architect, is a prisoner of his own obsession: the search for perfection. Only the love of Silvia, his girlfriend, can save him. To help him, she goes to a strange doctor, who will guide her on a journey between reality and myth... This is an early work of the internationally acclaimed cartoonist, rendered in a striking red and black two-color palette.


Acme Novelty Datebook Volume Two

Acme Novelty Datebook Volume Two

Author: Chris Ware

Publisher: Drawn and Quarterly

Published: 2007-12-10

Total Pages: 208

ISBN-13: 9781897299180

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Straggling behind the mild 2003 success of cartoonist Chris Ware's first facsimile collection of his miscellaneous sketches, notes, and adolescent fantasies arrives this second volume, updating weary readers with Ware's clichéd and outmoded insights from the late twentieth century. Working directly in pen and ink, watercolor, and white-out whenever he makes a mistake, Ware has cannily edited out all legally sensitive and personally incriminating material from his private journals, carefully recomposing each page to simulate the appearance of an ordered mind and established aesthetic directive. All phone numbers, references to ex-girlfriends, "false starts," and embarrassing experiments with unfamiliar drawing media have been generously excised to present the reader with the most pleasant and colorful sketchbook reading experience available. Included are Ware's frustrated doodles for his book covers, angry personal assaults on friends, half-finished comic strips, and lengthy and tiresome fulminations of personal disappointments both social and sexual, as well as his now-beloved drawings of the generally miserable inhabitants of the city of Chicago. All in all, a necessary volume for fans of fine art, water-based media, and personal diatribe. This hardcover is attractively designed and easy to resell.


At the End of Your Tether

At the End of Your Tether

Author: ADAM. SMITH

Publisher:

Published: 2019-11

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781549304712

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It's a humid summer night in August 1997 and LudoCarre is nervous. He hasn't seen or spoken to his ex, Arlo Quinonez since he wasfifteen. Now, he's returning home to be reunited with the one person he made aconnection with in his youth. The night before he arrives, Ludo gives her aphone call. Big laughs and a familiar cadence in Arlo's voice don't justinstantly calm him down -- they make him excited to see her. That excitementonly hurts him more when they show up the next day and find out Arlo has beenmissing...for the last week. Determined to find her, Ludo takes things into hisown hands, but the further he gets into his investigation, the more he questionshow well everyone on base, in town, and even he himself really knew her. Gonewithout a trace, the girl he once knew everything about has now become amystery. Where is his best friend - and who is she, aswell?


Crazy Quilt: Scraps and Panels on the Way to Gasoline Alley

Crazy Quilt: Scraps and Panels on the Way to Gasoline Alley

Author: Frank King

Publisher: Fantagraphics Sunday Press Books

Published: 2017-11-07

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780983550457

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Dive into this collection of rarely seen material that takes a new look at one of the great masters of American comics, giving insight into a developing artist and greater understanding of his inspiration to the generations that followed.


White Boy in Skull Valley

White Boy in Skull Valley

Author: Garrett Price

Publisher: Fantagraphics Sunday Press Books

Published: 2015

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780983550426

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From the famed New Yorker illustrator comes one of the lost treasures of American comic strips.


The Complete Terry and the Pirates: 1934-1936

The Complete Terry and the Pirates: 1934-1936

Author: Milton Arthur Caniff

Publisher: Library of American Comics

Published: 2007

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781600101007

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Celebrating the centennial of cartoonist Milton Caniff's birth, IDW Publishing will publish a six-book series, collecting the entirety of Caniff's groundbreaking newspaper adventure strip Terry and the Pirates. The Sunday pages will be reproduced in their original color, alongside the daily black-and-white strips.