Bill Griffith
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Formats
Description
From Bill Griffith, creator of Zippy the Pinhead and Nobody's Fool, comes Three Rocks, a biography of cartoonist Ernie Bushmiller, creator of the iconic comic strip Nancy. But this graphic novel is about more than a single comic book artist. It is the story of this American art form, tracing its inception to 1895 with the Yellow Kid, the creation of Nancy in 1933, and all the strips that followed, including Peanuts and The Far Side. Nancy is hailed...
Author
Publisher
Abrams ComicArts
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
248 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Formats
Description
"The story of Schlitzie's long career--from Coney Island and the Ringling Bros. Circus to small town carnivals and big city sideshows--is one of legend. Today, Schlitzie is most well-known for his appearance in the cult classic Freaks (produced by MGM of all studios in 1932 and directed by Tod Browning, his first feature after the horror classic Dracula), in which all of the sideshow performers were real, not actors. The making of Freaks and Schlitzie's...
Author
Publisher
Fantagraphics Books
Pub. Date
2015.
Edition
First edition
Physical Desc
195 pages : black and white illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Fifteen minutes after Bill Griffith's father died from a bicycle accident in 1972, his mother turned to him and said, "If I don't tell you this now, I'll never be able to tell you. I had a long and happy relationship with a man you knew slightly." Thus began Griffith's journey to reconstruct this hidden relationship between his mother and a deeply cultured jack-of-all-trades cartoonist and crime novelist. Invisible Ink unfolds like a detective story,...
4) The graphic canon: Volume 2 :from "Kubla Khan" to the Brontë Sisters to The picture of Dorian Gray
Publisher
Seven Stories Press
Pub. Date
©2012
Edition
Seven Stories Press 1st ed.
Physical Desc
xii, 499 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 28 cm
Language
English
