King Of The Comics : One Hundred Years Of King Features Paperback English by Bruce Canwell - 6/Nov/18

Bruce Canwell

King Features has had a more illustrious and long-lasting history than any other newspaper syndicate, even as it leads the way into the digital age and beyond. Krazy Kat! Popeye! Flash Gordon! Beetle Bailey! Blondie! Prince Valiant! Hagar the Horrible! Barney Google and Snuffy Smith! Baby Blues! Mutt & Jeff! Zits! Juliet Jones! Buz Sawyer! Steve Canyon! Bizarro! Hi & Lois! Maggie & Jiggs! Johnny Hazard! There are simply too many to list! From the earliest days, when William Randolph Hearst first added cartoons to his newspapers, comic strips have had a profound impact on popular culture. With the consolidation of Hearst's various distribution channels in November 1915, King Features was born. A century later, the world's largest syndicate leads the way into the 21st century and beyond. Advance solicited for October release! Nominated for two 2016 Eisner Awards: Best Comics-Related Book and Best Publication Design!

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9781684053391

English

Idea & Design Works

6/Nov/18

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Dean Mullaney created The Library of American Comics in 2007. He has been an influential force in the comics field since 1978, when he published Sabre, the first graphic novel for the comics specialty market. His pioneering efforts, as founder and publisher of Eclipse Comics, brought many milestones to the field, including creator copyright ownership, the first line of Japanese manga in English translation (in 1988), and the first digitally-colored comic book. He was inducted in the Overstreet Hall of Fame in 2011. Dean lives in Florida with his wife Lorraine Turner.

Dean Mullaney

Brian Walker

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King of the Comics: One Hundred Years of King Features Syndicate combines a historian's love of the art form with a fan's love of the strips themselves. -Mark Squirek, New York Journal of Book