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Binding: HardcoverDewey Decimal Number: 741.5 EAN: 9780810958388 ISBN: 0810958384 Label: "Harry N. Abrams, Inc." Manufacturer: "Harry N. Abrams, Inc." Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 320 Publication Date: June 01, 2006 Publisher: "Harry N. Abrams, Inc." Studio: "Harry N. Abrams, Inc." Related Items:
Editorial Review: Product Description: Before there was Robert Crumb, there was Herbert Crowley. If you don't recognize that name, you're not alone. Crowley is one of nearly 30 American cartoonists featured in this eclectic anthology, artists whose work-created between 1900 and 1969-was overshadowed by more successful contemporaries. Art Out of Time at last gives these pioneers the showcase they deserve, reprinting-in most cases for the first time since their initial publication-complete comic books and strips by such visionaries as Raymond Ewer, Howard Nostrand, Ogden Whitney, and Dick Briefer. These under-recognized artists often deviated from the thematic and graphic conventions of the comics medium-and influenced Crumb, Art Spiegelman, and others-making this superb anthology a true "counter history," the untold story of an underground that wasn't. Average Rating:
 Rating:  - Fair WarningYes...it is a great compliation of some of the forgotten Golden Age cartoon work...like the wonderful "Explorigator"...but, and this is a Big BUT... Those great old full-sheet Sunday Comics have been reduced to 8 x 11...can't even read the type-face with a good glass magnifier. And while the art work has some fabulous color it too is reduced to the point of....well you think about it! The good news is the Intro, the Bibliography and the Resources are excellent for your further ... Read More Rating:  - Rescued from Obscurity!This book is an eye-opener. Beautiful quality and reproductions here. Every time I look through this I discover something else. I love the works of McCay and Herriman as much as anyone...but there are real treasures here waiting to be rediscovered. Dan Nadel has done an outstanding job bringing this work to the attention of present day comics afficionados and art lovers in general. I really hope that Dan decides to do a volume 2 of this...and if you own this book, you'd know exactly what I mean. Rating: - Comic Art SupremeI bought this book for my husband for Christmas on the recommendation of one of his friends who knows his taste. A comics afficiado from way back, he has been over the moon about the book to the extent that we have given copies to various other of his friends as well. Everyone who has received it RAVES about it ... its coverage, thoroughness, graphics, etc. So no doubt that this book is da bomb! If you're even vaguely interested in the subject area, this is definitely the book for you. Rating: - Readers involved in comic history, evolution and art simply must have Any involved in the comics must have ART OUT OF TIME: UNKNOWN COMICS VISIONARIES, 1900-1969: it celebrates the lesser-known work of Bob Powell, Astan MacGovern, Boody Rogers and others who proved eccentric but influential comic visionaries before the rose of underground comics in the late 1960s. These artists created their own versions of western, romance, humor and horror genres and worked within the confines of popular comics of their times to provide visionary works. Some became famous, others remained ... Read More Rating: - VERY GOOD COMPILATION OF UNKNOWN ARTISTSThe edition and compilation of material is brilliant, and also is the reproduction of old pages. It's a fantastic purchase for comic lovers. 
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