Cartoon Cartoons comic books issue 1

1st printing.

Written by Bill Janocha. Art and cover by Mort Walker.

Mort Walker, the Dean of American Cartooning, left behind a legacy that extended far beyond his Beetle Bailey and Hi and Lois fame.

For the first time ever, Hermes Press and Bill Janocha (Walker's assistant) present a rare selection of gags and art from Walker's early years, before Beetle-mania took over the world. This historical book contains examples of the work he did prior to Beetle Bailey, and explores the evolution of his style and showcases his many gags, from his early comics in Showme magazine to the work he did for the Saturday Evening Post.

This tome also contains historical essays detailing his life and career, up until his death in 2018 as written by Janocha.

Hardcover, 8-in. x 11-in., 192 pages, full color.

Cover price $49.99.

28 pages

1st printing. Written by Lucinda Gosling. It is often said that a picture is worth a thousand words, but, during World War I, newspaper illustrations were worth even more, not only conveying the news to anxious families at home and soldiers in battle, but also entertaining and lifting the spirits of a nation at war. The illustrations included range from light-hearted strip cartoons and line drawings, to poignant sketches and dark and hard-hitting political satire. The images not only depict events as they happened, but reveal all the moods of a nation at war. Many are published here for the first time in 90 years, creating a unique, bittersweet portrayal of the Great War and a fascinating and very human, historical and artistic reference source. Hardcover, 9 1/2-in. x 12-in. 200 pages, PC/PB&W. Cover price $34.95.

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1st printing. By Pat Oliphant. A cartoon collection from the most widely syndicated political cartoonist in the world. Softcover (Horizontal Format), 10-in. x 7-in., 180 pages, B&W. Cover price $6.95.

Add to cart Fine $9.49

Add to cart Very Good $6.30

1st printing. By Sidney Harris. Got homework? A big meeting with the provost? Procrastinate with a collection of cartoons by Sidney Harris! Softcover, 8-in. x 8-in., 140 pages, B&W. Cover price $9.95.

Volume 1 - 1st printing. "Name that Toon!" Written by Danny Antonucci, Robbie Busch, Scott Cunningham, Michael Kraiger, Paul Kupperberg, Jesse McCann, Craig McCracken, Dan Slott, Frank Strom, Genndy Tartakovsky and Mo Willems. Art by Jeff Albrecht, Ron Boyd, Angus Bungay, Dan Day, John Delaney, Vincent Deporter, Tim Harkins, Mike Kazaleh, Jonathan Royce, Neal Sternecky, Genndy Tartakovsky, Scott Underwood, Mike Wetterhahn, and Mo Willems. Cover by Tartakovsky, Mike DeCarlo and Dave Schwartz. The stars of the Cartoon Network can all be found in this fourth set of trade paperbacks in DC's new line of digest-sized collections! Each volume collects 110 pages of stories from CARTOON CARTOONS, DEXTER'S LABORATORY and CARTOON NETWORK STARRING, featuring the glories of Dexter's Laboratory, Johnny Bravo, Cow & Chicken, Courage the Cowardly Dog, Ed, Edd 'n' Eddy, and I.M. Weasel! As Johnny Bravo would say, "Man, that's pretty!" For more information, see the feature article. Softcover, 5-in. x 7-in., 112 pages, full color. All Ages Cover price $6.95.

1st printing. By Ewa Stanczyk. Antisemitic caricatures had existed in Polish society since at least the mid-19th-century. But never had the devastating impacts of this imagery been fully realized or so blatantly apparent than on the eve of the Second World War. In Cartoons and Antisemitism: Visual Politics of Interwar Poland, scholar Ewa Stanczyk explores how illustrators conceived of Jewish people in satirical drawing and reflected on the burning political questions of the day. Incorporating hundreds of cartoons, satirical texts, and newspaper articles from the 1930s, Stanczyk investigates how a visual culture that was essentially hostile to Jews penetrated deep and wide into Polish print media. In her sensitive analysis of these sources, the author examines how major satirical magazines intervened in the ongoing events and contributed to the racialized political climate of the time. Softcover, 6-in. x 9-in., 256 pages, Text (with B&W Illustrations). Cover price $30.00.

Cartoons reprinted from Harper's Weekly and the New York Journal. Includes cartoons about the Spanish-American War. Title page reads "Davenport's Cartoons". Published by De Witt Publishing House. 12"x 16-1/2", 102 pages, hard-cover, B&W.

Cartoons by Jimmy Hatlo. Softcover, 4 1/4" x 6 3/8", 96 pages, B&W. Cover price $0.25.

Add to cart Good $6.00 View scans Front cover detached 10%. Back cover detached 15%. Water damage: Moderate.

Add to cart Poor $7.49 View scans Water damage: Slight.

2nd Edition - 1903. Written and illustrated by John McCutcheon. Hardcover without dust jacket. 12-3/8 x 9-3/4, 212 pages, B&W.

Volume 1, Issue 1 - October, 1958. Bill Wenzel cover and art. Adult jokes and cartoons. 8 1/2-in. x 11-in. 48 pages B&W. Cover price $0.25.

Bill Wenzel cover and art. Adult jokes and cartoons. 8 1/2-in. x 11-in. 48 pages B&W. Cover price $0.25.

1st printing. Cartoons for Victory showcases the wartime work by cartoonists including Milton Caniff, Chester Gould, Al Capp, Harold Gray, Charles Addams, Herblock, Peter Arno, Will Eisner, Harvey Kurtzman, Hank Ketcham, and many others. Gathered from private collections and obscure public sources, most of the cartoons and comics in this book have not been seen since their first publication. This is the most comprehensive collection ever assembled of World War II-era cartoons, reflecting the indefatigable spirit of the time. Hardcover, 240 pages, full color. Cover price $34.99.

Written and art by Ellison Hoover. Forward by Robert Benchley. Humorous illustrations about life. 8-1/2" X 11". Red cloth cover, B&W interior. 102 pages.

Reprints Puck magazine cartoons by Joseph Keppler, from 1877 to 1893. Mostly black and white with some color, with introduction and text by H.C. Bunner. Limited to 300 printed, bound and numbered copies, signed by Keppler. Only 1/4 of the pages are cartoons. 14-1/4" x 11-1/2", hardcover, 244 pages.

One-shot, Apr. 1968. Cartoons with a dungeon theme by Ted Trogdon. 8-in. x 11-in., 48 pages, B&W. Cover price $0.35.

1st Printing. When Sam Cobean was killed in a car accident in 1951, he had produced almost two full years of work since the publication of his best seller, "Cobean's Naked Eye". The pick of these new cartoons, plus some of the wonderful earlier Cobeans, make up this book. There are more than 180 cartoons and cartoon stories; all but a few of them here are printed for the first time in book form. More than one-third have never appeared anywhere before. Hardcover, 8.5" x 11", B&W. Cover price $3.95.

Volume 1, 1st Printing. One of three volumes. This collection represents the state of magazine cartooning in the early 1920's. Although many cartoons were chosen because they reflect their times, others were included because of their timeless humor, and still others because their satirical thrust is astonishingly contemporary still - tackling issues such as the environment, censorship, women of the times and Americana in general. Features artwork by Percy Crosby, A.B. Frost, Charles Gibson, Harrison Cady, T.S. Sullivant, Gluyas Williams, Russ Westover, Carl Anderson, James Flagg, Ross Santee, E.W. Kimble, Art Young and many others. Cover price $8.95.

Political Cartoons Related to the War of 1898 with Spain. 7-in. x 10 1/2-in. Hardcover 180 Pages Landscape format B&W

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1st printing. Story and art by Derek Ballard. Cartoonist and animator Derek M. Ballard makes modern American family comics. It's not his fault that being a single parent in America is kind of a nightmare. Derek is a solo parent raising three kids in the American South, while trying to make art. Told in a series of free-flowing and often hilarious comic essays, Cartoonshow gets to the heart of the struggle to be a creative person in a society that doesn't value anything other than how much it can grind out of you. Covid, poverty, the failing social safety net, predatory lenders, and literal acts of God can't stop our hero! Hardcover, 8-in. x 6-in., 144 pages, PC. NOTE: "I laughed and cried, y'all these are the real $@#% journal comics. Drawings that could slay a dragon. Every punchline a funny knife in your eye." - Pendleton Ward Cover price $21.99.

1st printing.

Story and art by Dave Coverly.

Here is an irresistible collection of clever cat-themed cartoons, a companion title to Dave Coverly's Dogs Are People, Too: A Collection of Cartoons to Make Your Tail Wag.

This collection contains over a hundred of Dave's funniest cat cartoons from his nationally syndicated panel Speed Bump, as well as cat doodles and interviews from eight other award-winning cat-loving cartoonists. Filled with cat clichés, cat bloopers, and pop "cature," this is a compelling gift item perfect for animal-lovers of all ages.

Softcover, 6-in.x 8 1/2-in., 224 pages, full color. All Ages

Cover price $16.99.

1st printing - Allan Nevins and Frank Weitenkampf Collection of satirical cartoons by Thomas Nast and others. Hardcover 7 1/2-in. x 10 1/2-in. 192 pages B&W.

Religious cartoons by E.J. Pace, reprinted from The Sunday School Times. 6" x 7-1/4", brown hard cover, B&W.

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Add to cart Good $3.10

1st printing. By Roger Dahl. Roger Dahl's Zero Gravity cartoon strip has been a popular feature of Japan's leading English-language daily newspaper, The Japan Times, since 1991. Now, for the first time, Roger Dahl's Comic Japan brings together the best of Zero Gravity in book form. Offering a Western artist's take on Japan, the strip stars Larry and Lily, a young American couple working as English teachers in Tokyo. Larry and Lily never manage to fully integrate into Japanese society, and Zero Gravity takes a whimsical approach to the meeting of cultures as well as the quirky dynamics of changing relationships between generations and subgroups within Japan. Softcover, 9-in. x 8-in., 168 pages, B&W. Cover price $15.95.

1st printing. Written and illustrated by Francis W. Dahl. Hardcover, 10" x 8", 160 pages, B&W. NOTE: May have been originally released with Dust Jacket.

1st printing. BY Garry Trudeau. Foreword by Erich Segal. A collection of cartoons from the the creator's college days. Softcover, 7-in. x 6-in., 96 pages, B&W. Cover price $2.95.

Add to cart Very Good $5.10

Add to cart Very Good $5.10

2nd and later printings. BY Garry Trudeau. Foreword by Erich Segal. A collection of cartoons from the the creator's college days. Softcover, 7-in. x 6-in., 96 pages, B&W. Cover price $2.95.

1st printing. By Richard H. Minear. Introduction by Art Spiegelman. For decades, readers throughout the world have enjoyed the marvelous stories and illustrations of Theodor Seuss Geisel, better known as Dr. Seuss. But few know the work Geisel did as a political cartoonist during World War II, for the New York daily newspaper PM. In these extraordinarily trenchant cartoons, Geisel presents a provocative history of wartime politics (Entertainment Weekly). Dr. Seuss Goes to War features handsome, large-format reproductions of more than two hundred of Geisels cartoons, alongside insightful (Booklist) commentary by the historian Richard H. Minear that places them in the context of the national climate they reflect. Pulitzer Prize winner Art Spiegelmans introduction places Seuss firmly in the pantheon of the leading political cartoonists of our time. Hardcover, 9-in. x 9-in., 272 pages, B&W. NOTE: Fascinating. —The New York Times Book Review Cover price $25.00.

Art by Jack Markow. A How-To instructional guide to elevating your cartooning skills. Softcover, 64 pages, B&W

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1st printing. By Jack Ohman. A hilarious collection of political satire from the author of Back to the '80s. Softcover (Horizontal Format), 9-in. x 6-in., 144 pages, B&W. Cover price $5.95.

1st printing. By Sidney Harris. No scientific topic is safe from Sideny Harris's pen. Harris's insightful cartoons, which grace bulletin boards and laboratory doors everywhere, have become every person's window into the often baffling and weirdly funny side of science and scientists. Softcover, 7 1/2-in. x 9 1/2-in., 154 pages, B&W. Cover price $14.00.

Revised Edition - 1st printing. By Sidney Harris. Sidney Harris is America's foremost science cartoonist. He has been praised by luminaries such as Linus Pauling and Isaac Asimov, as well as countless others throughout the world, for his ability to find humour in what is traditionally regarded as a somewhat dry subject. Harris does for science what Scott Adams (creator of Dilbert) does for business: his unique perspective illustrates the scientific and technological environments in such a funny way that everyone can enjoy it. Softcover, 8-in. x 8-in., 160 pages, B&W. Cover price $12.95.

2nd Edition - 1st printing. By Jeff Lenburg. This ready reference details every cartoon and every cartoon character ever created. This guide documents every production from 1911 to the present with more than 2200 cartoon entries. Softcover, 8 1/2-in. x 11-in., 576 pages, Text (with B&W illustrations) Cover price $24.95.

1st Printing.Written by Jeff Lenburg. Softcover, 8-in x 11-in, B&W. Cover price $24.95.

1st Printing. In "The Fall of Man", Seattle internationally honored editorial cartoonist, David Horsey, surveys all of creation to prove modern human beings remain as foolish and fallible as the two who were tossed from Eden. His book takes us for a tour across an America of fractured families and media voyeurism; on to a political world filled with lighter-than-air leaders; then around a planet disintegrating into tribalism and back again to Puget Sound where strip malls creep toward the mountain tops and salmon swim toward extinction. The laugh-so-you-won't-cry story of homo sapiens in the 1990's is brilliantly captured in this collection of 150 cartoons from the pages of Seattle Post-Intellegencer. Softcover, Horizontal format, 10.5" x 8", 154 pages, B&W.

1st printing. By Flannery O'Connor. Fantagraphics is honored to bring the little-known early cartoons of one of the greatest writers of the 20th century to a 21st century readership. Flannery O'Connor: The Cartoons reprints all of the cartoons she did for several small newspapers and University publications in the 1940s in which she lampoons student life and the impact of World War II on the home front whilst trying out artistic techniques that were later deployed in her fiction. The Southern Gothic humor and acid observations will be instantly recognizable to all fans of this beloved icon of American literature. Hardcover (Horizontal Format), 10-in. x 8-in., 144 pages, PC/PB&W. Cover price $22.99.

As They Have Appeared In Magazines Newspapers. Flit is a collection of insecticide ad cartoons featuring early work of Dr. Seuss and his skill for drawing fantastic creatures.

Advertising promotional booklet written and illustrated by major cartoonists of the day. Photo cover of Fred Allen, a popular comedian from the golden age of radio. Contents feature Nancy by Ernie Bushmiller, Reg'lar Fellers by Gene Byrnes, Mutt and Jeff by Bud Fisher, and several other comic strips/cartoons. Softcover, 32 Pages, B&W.

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First Edition. Anthology of cartoons from a variety of French magazines, including: L'Assiete au Beurre, La Vie Parisienne, Le Regiment, Sans-Gene, Le Sourire, Parisiana, Fantasio, Candide and Le Rire. Translated into English and edited by Keene Wallis. Hardcover with dust jacket, 5.5" x 8.25", 128 pages, B&W. Cover price $1.00.

1st printing. Story and art by Charles Rodrigues. Culled from the pages of National Lampoon, this is Fantagraphics second collection of the work of Charles Rodrigues, one of the most audacious, taboo-busting cartoonists who ever lived. There is no example of human suffering, tragedy, or absurdity that is off limits. The cartoons are hilarious and yet without a drop of rancor, even the chapter titled "Good Ways to Kill a Rock Performer." This is a welcome re-examination of one of the great, under-appreciated and quintessentially American cartoonists. Hardcover, 400 pages, full color. Cover price $34.99.

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1st printing - 3 Volumes (with Slipcase). OVER ONE THOUSAND CARTOONS SPANNING 50 YEARS OF A LEGENDARY CAREER! Fifty-one, to be exact, but let's not quibble. Gahan Wilson is among the most popular, widely-read, and beloved cartoonists in the history of the medium, whose career spans the 2nd half of the 20th century, and all of the 21st. His work has been seen by millions -no, hundreds of millions- in the pages of Playboy, The New Yorker, Punch, The National Lampoon, and many other magazines; there is no telling, really, how many readers he has corrupted or comforted. He is revered for his playfully sinister take on childhood, adulthood, men, women, and monsters. His brand of humor makes you laugh until you cry. And it's about time that a collection of his cartoons was published that did justice to his vast body of work. When Gahan Wilson walked into Hugh Hefner's office in 1957, he sat down as Hefner was on the phone, gently rejecting a submission to his new gentlemen's magazine: "I think it's very well-written and I liked it very much," Hefner reportedly said, "but it's anti-sin. And I'm afraid we're pro-sin." Wilson knew, at that moment, that he had found a kindred spirit and a potential home for his cartoons. And indeed he had; Wilson appeared in every issue of Playboy from the December 1957 issue to today. It has been one of the most fruitful, successful, and long-lived relationships between a contributor and a magazine, ever. Gahan Wilson: 50 Years of Playboy Cartoons features not only every cartoon Wilson drew for Playboy, but all his prose fiction that has appeared in that magazine as well, from his first story in the June, 1962 issue, "Horror Trio," to such classics as "Dracula Country" (September 1978). It also includes the text-and-art features he drew for Playboy, such as his look at Madame Tussaud's Wax Museum, his take on our country's "pathology of violence," and his appreciation of "transplant surgery." Wilson's notoriously black sense of comedy is on display throughout the book, leaving no sacred cow unturned (an image curiously absent in the book), ridiculing everything from state sponsored executions to the sober precincts of the nouveau rich, from teenage dating to police line-ups, with scalding and hilarious satirical jabs. Although Wilson is known as an artist who relishes the creepy side of modern life, this three-volume set truly demonstrates the depth and breadth of his range - from illustrating private angst we never knew we had (when you eat a steak, just whom are you eating?) to the ironic and deadpan take on horrifying public issues (ecological disaster, nuclear destruction anyone?). Gahan Wilson has been peeling back the troubling layers of modern life with his incongruously playful and unnerving cartoons, assailing our deepest fears and our most inane follies. This three-volume set is a testament to one of the funniest - and wickedly disturbing - cartoonists alive. GAHAN WILSON was born in 1930 in Evanston, IL and lives in New York City. Hardcover (3 Volumes with Slipcase), 8-in. x 10 1/2-in., 1,056 pages, B&W. Mature Readers Cover price $125.00.

1st printing. NOTE: The Limited Edition (B) includes a signed and numbered, two-color letterpress print and a box set of reproduction Christmas illustrations sent from Gahan Wilson to Hugh Hefner. Limited to 300 copies - OVER ONE THOUSAND CARTOONS SPANNING 50 YEARS OF A LEGENDARY CAREER! Fifty-one, to be exact, but let's not quibble. Gahan Wilson is among the most popular, widely-read, and beloved cartoonists in the history of the medium, whose career spans the 2nd half of the 20th century, and all of the 21st. His work has been seen by millions -no, hundreds of millions- in the pages of Playboy, The New Yorker, Punch, The National Lampoon, and many other magazines; there is no telling, really, how many readers he has corrupted or comforted. He is revered for his playfully sinister take on childhood, adulthood, men, women, and monsters. His brand of humor makes you laugh until you cry. And it's about time that a collection of his cartoons was published that did justice to his vast body of work. When Gahan Wilson walked into Hugh Hefner's office in 1957, he sat down as Hefner was on the phone, gently rejecting a submission to his new gentlemen's magazine: "I think it's very well-written and I liked it very much," Hefner reportedly said, "but it's anti-sin. And I'm afraid we're pro-sin." Wilson knew, at that moment, that he had found a kindred spirit and a potential home for his cartoons. And indeed he had; Wilson appeared in every issue of Playboy from the December 1957 issue to today. It has been one of the most fruitful, successful, and long-lived relationships between a contributor and a magazine, ever. Gahan Wilson: 50 Years of Playboy Cartoons features not only every cartoon Wilson drew for Playboy, but all his prose fiction that has appeared in that magazine as well, from his first story in the June, 1962 issue, "Horror Trio," to such classics as "Dracula Country" (September 1978). It also includes the text-and-art features he drew for Playboy, such as his look at Madame Tussaud's Wax Museum, his take on our country's "pathology of violence," and his appreciation of "transplant surgery." Wilson's notoriously black sense of comedy is on display throughout the book, leaving no sacred cow unturned (an image curiously absent in the book), ridiculing everything from state sponsored executions to the sober precincts of the nouveau rich, from teenage dating to police line-ups, with scalding and hilarious satirical jabs. Although Wilson is known as an artist who relishes the creepy side of modern life, this three-volume set truly demonstrates the depth and breadth of his range - from illustrating private angst we never knew we had (when you eat a steak, just whom are you eating?) to the ironic and deadpan take on horrifying public issues (ecological disaster, nuclear destruction anyone?). Gahan Wilson has been peeling back the troubling layers of modern life with his incongruously playful and unnerving cartoons, assailing our deepest fears and our most inane follies. This three-volume set is a testament to one of the funniest - and wickedly disturbing - cartoonists alive. GAHAN WILSON was born in 1930 in Evanston, IL and lives in New York City. Hardcover, 1,056 pages, B&W. Mature Readers NOTE: The Limited Edition (B) includes a signed and numbered, two-color letterpress print and a box set of reproduction Christmas illustrations sent from Gahan Wilson to Hugh Hefner. Limited to 300 copies Cover price $175.00.

Stories and art by Jack O'Brien and others. One-page cartoons of the tame but suggestive type that would appear in men's magazines a few years later. Risque for the era. Some are by Saturday Evening Post and Sad Sack cartoonist Jack O'Brien, sometimes signed as "Sgt. O'Brien." Plus one-page B&W pin-up photos, including screen star Lupita Tovar and skater Sonja Henie. Sonja Henie; R.K.O. Chorine; Columbia Beauty; Lupita Tovar. 5-in. x 7-in., 64 pages, B&W. Cover price $0.25.

1st Printing - Series of cartoon reprints originally published in "The Daily Express" and "The Sunday Express" in England by prolific cartoonist, Ronald "Carl" Giles, simply known as Giles. With highly detailed single panel scenarios, and a cast of reoccurring characters known as the "Giles Family", he delighted readers on a daily basis for over 50 years until his death in 1995. Softcover, Horizontal Format, 10" x 7.5", 128 pages, B&W.

Add to cart Near Mint $9.95

Add to cart Near Mint $9.95

1st printing.

Story and art by Lucy Knisley.

An irresistible and hilarious collection of Lucy Knisley's cartoons about new motherhood. Lucy Knisley is one of the great memoirists of the graphic novel format. Following the completion of her pregnancy memoir Kid Gloves (and the birth of her baby), Lucy embarked on a new project: documenting new motherhood in short, spontaneous little cartoons, which she posted on her Instagram, and which quickly gained her a huge cult following among other moms.

The best of those wildly popular little cartoons are collected in this adorable gift book, a perfect read for expecting parents, new parents, and anyone who loves funny, relatable comics storytelling.

Softcover, 7-in. x 7-in., 192 pages, B&W.

Cover price $14.99.