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**A poignant history of the cartoonists and illustrators from the Connecticut School**For a period of about fifty years, right in the middle of the American Century, many of the the nation's top comic-strip cartoonists, gag cartoonists, and magazine illustrators lived within a stone's throw of one another in the southwestern corner of Connecticut--a bit of bohemia in the middle of those men in their gray flannel suits. Cullen Murphy's father, John Cullen Murphy, drew the wildly popular comic strips *Prince Valiant* and *Big Ben Bolt* , and was at the heart of this artistic milieu. Comic strips and gag cartoons read by hundreds of millions were created in this tight-knit group-- *Superman* , *Beetle Bailey* , *Snuffy Smith* , *Rip Kirby* , *Hagar the Horrible* , *Hi and Lois* , *Nancy* , *Sam & Silo*, *Amy* , *The Wizard of Id* , *The Heart of Juliet Jones* , *Family Circus* , *Joe Palooka* , and *The Lockhorns* , among others. Cartoonists and their art were a pop-cultural force in a way that few today remember. Anarchic and deeply creative, the cartoonists were independent spirits whose artistic talents had mainly been forged during service in World War II. Illustrated with never-b

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Author

Murphy, A.E.

Publisher

Farrar, Straus and Giroux

Published

2017

Language

EN

ISBN

9780374298555

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Crafts & Hobbies, History, Biography

Rating

4.6 / 5 (52 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14