CARtoons comic books issue 0

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Set Includes 2 Volumes (with slipcase) - 1st printings.

The most ingenious collection of New Yorker cartoons published in book form, The New Yorker Encyclopedia of Cartoons is a prodigious, slip-cased, two-volume, nearly 1,600-page A-to-Z curation of cartoons from the magazine from 1924 to the present. Mankoff, former cartoon editor of the New Yorker, organizes nearly 3,000 cartoons into more than 250 categories of recurring themes and visual tropes, including cartoons on banana peels, meeting St. Peter, being stranded on a desert island, snowmen, lion tamers, Adam and Eve, the Grim Reaper, and dogs, of course. The collection also includes a foreword by New Yorker editor David Remnick.

Hardcover (2 Volumes with slipcase), 9-in. x 12-in., 1,536 pages, B&W.

Cover price $100.00.

Illustrated by Lee Ames. Just like the cover says, this is a step-by-step way to draw comic strip and TV animated characters. Flash Gordon to Huckleberry Hound, Hagar the Horrible to Krazy Kat, Broom-Hilda to Andy Capp, this volume showcases a wide range of characters. 8 3/4-in. x 12 1/4-in., 64 pages, B&W. Cover price $8.95.

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Quaint and Interesting Cartoons about Pennsylvania (circa 1950) was promotional booklet distributed by the Pennsylvania Department of Commerce. There are 2 or 3 cartoons on each page with some really neat facts about Pennsylvania regarding industry (coal, oil, gas and water power production), the people (Pennsylvania Dutch, Quakers etc), the land, historical persona and locations (only revolutionary War Tomb of "The Unknown Soldier" is located in Penn) etc. Some great stuff here. 40 pages, B&W, art and done in the Ripley's Believe It Or Not style of comic art.

Humor revolving around the final weeks of Word War I and a time thereafter. Written and illustrated by Kirkland H. Day. Hardbound book, 7-1/2 x 5 inches, 136-pages, text and black-and-white cartoon illustrations on alternate pages (some material "very" politically incorrect!). Not known if originally published with a dust jacket, but probably not given the illustrated cover.

Cartoons And Drawing (circa 1945) 31 Lessons--Over 600 Illustrations is a promotional comic published by Hal Hull Specialties. Written and illustrated by J.A. Patterson. This is a detailed instructional comic on how to draw funny cartoons. The illustrated lessons are on one page, while blank sketch paper is provided for on adjacent page. 96pages, B&W, 11-in. x 8.25-in., newsprint interior with cardstock cover, with no cover price. NOTE: The charactures pages, depicting famous people of the times, provides a clue to the publication date, as those charactured include Franklin Roosevelt, Adolph Hitler, John L. Lewis, and Benito Mussolini, among others.

This is the second book by Fontaine Fox, creator of the Toonervilley Trolly newspaper comic strip.

Frederick A. Stokes Company, by Charles Nelan, reprints from New York Herald, hardcover, 11-1/2 x 10, 72 pages, B&W, 1898.

Cartoons by John T. McCutcheon about the visit of the British Prince Henry to the U.S. Paper cover, 9" x 12 1/8", b&w, 32 pages.

First printing, 1993. Written and illustrated by Randy Galsbergen. No matter what your skill level, this book will teach you everything you need to know about drawing and selling cartoons. Laminated boards, no dust jacket as issued. 7 3/4-in. x 10-in., 120 pages, B&W. Cover price $19.95.

Promotional booklet for Mason Mints that includes step-by-step instructions on cartooning animals and people. 8.5-in. x 11-in.; black and white; 20 pages. No date.

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Written and illustrated by Christopher Hart. Sample chapters include Body Language, The Action Line, How to Anthropomorphize Animals, Importance of Black and White and many more. Comprehensive. 8 1/4-in. x 11-in., 144 pages, B&W. Cover price $16.95.

1st printing. No publisher, copyright, or title page given. Dated 1960 on the Ding Darling Foundation website. Initially intended to be nothing more than a Christmas Greeting Card project for old friends consisting of "just a few" pickings from the over 16,000 cartoons under Jay N. Darling's (aka "Ding" Darling) belt, the project eventually snowballed into a full fledged book containing hundreds of cartoons for old-timers to reminisce about. Hardcover (no dustjacket), 9" x 12", b&w, 127 pages.

Copyright 1911. "Just For Fun" A Series of Cartoons as Published in the (Newspaper). NOTE: Newspaper publisher appearing in title will be from the Massachusetts area - known are Falls River Daily Globe & New Bedford Daily Standard Times. The book contains over 80 period cartoon caricatures of businessmen, musicians, doctors, and other prominent Massachusettsians. Artist(s) uncredited. Each drawing is single page and printed on high quality white paper. 11" x 9"-horizontal format, leather dust-jacket, three-hole spiral thread-bound spine, b&w, 87 pgs.

Serious Cartoons and Crayon Pencil Drawing. No date. Art instruction by C.N. (Charles) Landon. Text plus loose-leaf pages illustrating the lesson. 8.25-in. x 11.5-in.; stapled along the top. Landon was an illustrator for The Cleveland Press, art director for the Newspaper Enterprise Association and art editor of Cosmopolitan. He is most notable as the founder of the Landon School of Illustration and Cartooning, a mail-order correspondence course that trained a generation of leading syndicated cartoonists in drawing for publication. Landon's most successful students included Carl Barks, Merrill Blosser, Gene Byrnes, Milton Caniff, Jack Cole, Roy Crane, V.T. Hamlin, Ethel Hays, Bill Holman, and Chic Young.

Written and art by Charles Lewis Bartholomew. Cartoons of the Spanish-American War with important dates of events. Gold thread bound in soft wrappers, 9" x 8", 160 pages, B&W. Cover price $0.25.

Paul Terry's How to Draw Funny Cartoons (circa 1945).

3rd Edition. Political commentary on economic policy framed with the political humor and wit of Puck's Magazine. Cover price $0.10.

First printing, 1975. Written by Joe Adamson, edited by Leonard Maltin. The story of Tex Avery, one of the most influential and talented animators ever. Illustrated with dozens and dozens of stills, concept art, production art and more. 8-in. x 11-in., 238 pages, B&W. Cover price $3.95.

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Giveaway from gas stations to promote Prestone Anti-Freeze. 7" x 10", 32 pages, full color.