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Reading the Funnies SC (2001 FB) Essays on Comic Strips comic books

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    Reading the Funnies SC (2001 FB) Essays on Comic Strips #1-1ST
    Tags: Comic History, Comic Strip Reprints
    Published Mar 2001 by Fantagraphics.
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    1st printing. READING THE FUNNIES collects Donald Phelps' essays on early 20th Century newspaper strips - the Golden Age of comic strips, when readers avidly followed the daily and weekly adventures of Flash Gordon, Little Nemo, and Krazy Kats, a time when the critic Gilbert Seldes could write, "Of all the lively arts the Comic Strip is the most despised and, with the exception of the movies, it is the most popular." Most of the essays in this book appear here for the first time. Softcover, 6-in. x 9-in., 306 pages, B&W. Cover price $19.95.