Children of the Yellow Kid: The Evolution of the American Comic Strip Dean Yeagle Kim Deitch & Gilbert Hernandez

Kim Deitch & Gilbert Hernandez

low and high art

and even more vicious fights between hardened men

and hard work

Children of the Yellow Kid: The Evolution of the American Comic Strip Dean Yeagle Kim Deitch & Gilbert HernandezAn exhibition catalogue with 136 items described and illustrated. Traces the development of the comic strip since its birth at the turn of the century. The reproductions of vintage strips are strikingly pristine, due to the use of original artwork rather than published versions in the production of the volume. The author, a seasoned writer and scholar of the subject is good at historical and aesthetic discussion, less so at discussing the sociological