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Masters of 20th-century American comics by John Carlin; Paul Karasik; Brian Walker; Stanley Crouch; UCLA Hammer Museum of Art and Cultural Center; Museum of Contemporary Art (Los Angeles, Calif) is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

What is Masters of 20th-century American comics about?

Comic strips and comic books were among the most popular and influential forms of mass media in 20thcentury America. This fascinating book focuses on fifteen pioneering cartoonists—ranging from Winsor McCay to Chris Ware—who brought this genre to the highest level of artistic expression and who had the greatest impact on the development of the form.Organized chronologically, Masters of American Comics explores the rise of newspaper comic strips and comic books and considers their artistic development throughout the century. Presenting a wide selection of original drawings as well as progressive proofs, vintage printed Sunday pages, and comic books themselves, the authors also look at how the art of comics was transformed by artistic innovation as well as by changes in popular taste, economics, and printing conventions.First appearing in newspaper Sunday supplements, the comic strip became immediately successful and created the largest audience of any medium of its time. The comic book first began as a way to print existing newspaper comics, then subsequently established the mass popularity of superheroes in the 1940s and 1950s before it matured as a vehicle for independent personal

Who reads Masters of 20th-century American comics?

Author

John Carlin; Paul Karasik; Brian Walker; Stanley Crouch; UCLA Hammer Museum of Art and Cultural Center; Museum of Contemporary Art (Los Angeles, Calif)

Publisher

Regents of the University of California; Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; Yale University Press; Hammer Museum

Published

2005

Language

EN

ISBN

9780300113174

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Crafts & Hobbies, History, Art