Author: BUHLE, PAUL (ED.)
Title: Jews and American comics : an illustrated history of an American art form / edited by Paul Buhle.
Description: New York : New Press 2008. First Edition. An exceptional copy; fine in an equally fine dw. now mylar-sleeved. Particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight. bright. clean and especially sharp-cornered. Literally as new.; 8vo 8' - 9' tall; 198 pages; Description: ix. 198 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. Subjects: Comic books. strips. etc. --History and criticism --Jewish cartoonists --Biography --Jews --Intellectual life --Jewish wit and humor. Pictorial --History --American wit and humor. Pictorial. Summary: With three brief essays by Paul Buhle. the well-known historian of American Jewish life. this publication offers readers a pictorial backstory tracing Jewish involvement in comic art from several little-known strips in Yiddish newspapers of the early 20th century through the mid-century origins of the modern comic book and finally to contemporary comic art. which has at last found its place in museums. in private collections. and on the bookshelves of both critics and oodles of avid STRAND readers. Features more than two hundred examples of the work of Jewish comic artists.Weight in Kg appr.:

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