A rip-roaring and exhaustively researched new take on the origin of the comic strip by one of the leading cartoon storytellers of our time.
Publishers Weekly calls Eddie Campbell "one of the premier cartoonists of his generation." Campbell has been writing and drawing comics since 1974, and is best known for his collaborations with Alan Moore (From Hell, A Disease of Language) and Neil Gaiman (The Truth is a Cave in the Black Mountains), as well as for Alec, his tour-de-force autobiographical series that Booklist called "a high-water mark in the graphic novel's short history," and the 1200-page epic Bacchus. Forthcoming is Bizarre Romance (in collaboration with Audrey Niffenegger).
"A scintillating examination of how some legendary cartoonists
helped change newspapers and its readership." –Washington Times
"Armed with his meticulous eye for scholarship and an
always-raucous storytelling instinct, (Eddie Campbell is)
guaranteed to entertain as well as educate." –World Literature
Today
"My hat is off to Eddie Campbell for his superb work in hunting
down, cleaning up, and collecting together over 500 illustrations
from those far-off golden days." –Yesterday's Papers
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