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Comic strip art

 Subject
Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 204 Collections and/or Records:

Book One: Work: 1986 - 2006 / Kidd, Chip ; Updike J ; Havel V ; Beckett S ; Indiana G ; Stern H ; Marquez GG ; Ondaatje M., 2005

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Identifier: CC-53622-291349
Scope and Contents Amazom.com: Described as "the closest thing to a rock star" in graphic design today (USA Today), Chip Kidd is universally recognized as an American master of contemporary book design. At the forefront of a revolution in publishing, Kidd's iconic covers, with their inventive marriage of type and found images, have influenced an entire generation of design practitioners in many fields.Chip Kidd: Book One collects all of his book covers and designs for the first time, as well as hundreds of developmental sketches and concepts-annotated by Kidd and by many of the best-selling authors he's worked with over the years. The result is an important contribution to the design canon today as well as a visually dazzling (and often hilarious) insider's look at the design and publishing process.The book also showcases Kidd's work with comics and graphic novels, including his collaborations with leading artists and writers in the field. Featured are projects for DC Comics, including Batman and...
Dates: 2005

Centre de Recherches Peripheri Scopiques: Les Antliaclastes. / Alfred Jarry., 1981

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Identifier: CC-16841-17197
Scope and Contents

Illustrated by Henry Meyer. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1981

Cloud Comics / P.J. O'Rourke ; Others., 1972

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Identifier: CC-61020-10003803
Scope and Contents Wikipedia: P.J. O'Rourke (1947-) wrote articles for several publications, including "A.J. at N.Y.U." for The Rip Off Review of Western Culture, an underground magazine/comic book, in 1972, as well as pieces for the Baltimore underground newspaper Harry and the New York Ace, before joining National Lampoon in 1973, where he served as managing editor among other roles and authored articles such as "Foreigners Around the World" and "How to Drive Fast on Drugs While Getting Your Wing-Wang Squeezed and Not Spill Your Drink." He received a writing credit for National Lampoon's Lemmings which helped launch the careers of John Belushi, Chevy Chase and Christopher Guest. He also co-wrote National Lampoon's 1964 High School Yearbook with Douglas Kenney. O'Rourke said later that Kenney brought comedy to the piece and he brought the organization. The Yearbook was a bestseller and some themes were later used in the movie Animal House. Going freelance in 1981, O'Rourke began publishing in...
Dates: 1972

Comics (edited by Carl Peters) / Nichol, bp ; Peters C ; Avison M., 2002

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Identifier: CC-42771-44810
Scope and Contents

This is a collection of Nichol's comic strips and cartoons from 1960 to 1980. Nelson Ball, the bookseller comments "There is a serious error in this book in the titling of the final sequence which should be "The Lives & Loves of Captain George" and not "John Cannyside" as titled. The sequence is actually based on an interview of George Henderson, the proprietor of Memory Lane [book store and publisher] in Toronto. [Note: Most of the crossed through names on page 294 are pseudonyms used by Henderson for the pornographic novels he wrote, published in the USA by Knight Volumes, Target Novels, Lantern Books, Candlelight Books and Neva Paperbacks from 1964 to 1968]. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2002

Contexto. No.14/Jul / Dantas CH ; Cirne M ; Ribeiro P., 1978

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Identifier: CC-29633-31006
Scope and Contents

This issue was printed as a special supplement to the newspaper, "A Republica." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1978

Crumb Family Comics / Crumb, Maxon, editor ; Crumb C ; Crumb R ; DiPrima D ; Burroughs WS ; Kupferberg T., 1998

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Identifier: CC-32085-33620
Scope and Contents

This book is based upon a suggestion by Terry Zwigoff, the producer-director of the academy award winning documentary film, "Crumb," to aid in understanding this unique and complex artistic family. The first section comprises a biography of the Crumb family. Later sections deal with selections from the works of Robert, Charles, Maxon, Jesse and Sophie Crumb. The major part of the book is the work of Robert Crumb, including his sketches, comics, fictions, portraits, paintings and drawings. The front and back endpapers are photographic reproductions from an unpublished journal by Charles Crumb that is held by the Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1998

Crumb-ology: The works of R. Crumb 1981-1994 / Richter, Carl, editor ; Crumb R., 1995

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Identifier: CC-32084-33619
Scope and Contents

The book lists and describes comic, magazine and tabloid work, books, translations, anthologies and other books with Crumb art, various written material, exhibitions, theater and film as well as material dealing with Robert Crumb. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1995

Curvd H&Z: Card #29: The Clock Struck Five. No.230/Aug / Mark Laba., 1983

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Identifier: CC-18416-18788
Scope and Contents

Also designated Toybox #6. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1983

Curvd H&Z: Card #94: A fat man. No.442/Oct / Mark Laba., 1998

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Identifier: CC-31888-33411
Scope and Contents

This poem was first published by Coma Goats in 1983. The fragment of the comic strip collaged to the card in the figure of "Little Nancy" who sits on a stool. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1998

Curvd H&Z: Card #94: A fat man. No.442/Oct / Mark Laba., 1998

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Identifier: CC-31889-33412
Scope and Contents

This poem was first published by Coma Goats in 1983 and is also held by the Sackner Archive. The fragment of the comic strip collaged to the card depicts the text bubble, "Sit Up." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1998

Curvd H&Z: Grease Ball Comics. No.195/Apr / bp Nichol., 1983

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Identifier: CC-18380-18752
Scope and Contents

This is the 2nd edition of the leaflet first published by Ganglia Press in 1970. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1983

Dante's Divine Comedy / Chwast, Seymour ; Dante., 2010

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Identifier: CC-52151-73270
Scope and Contents

The blurb on the back cover reads, "From the nine circles of Hell all the way to Purgatory & Paradise, a graphic adaptation of the classic poem as only Seymour Chwast imagines it." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2010

dbqp: Socks, Dregs and Rocking Chairs #3. No.104/Sep / J. Ryan., 1990

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Identifier: CC-14974-15288
Scope and Contents

There are 100 copies of this issue that are included in dbqp #101. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1990

dbqp: Socks, Dregs & Rocking Chairs #1. No.0 / Geof Huth, editor., 1982

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Identifier: CC-14921-15234
Scope and Contents

Huth writes that this piece was a copy from the original 25-copy edition. He then "retro-numbered" it as dbqp # 0. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1982