Barnaby Volume Three: 0 - Hardcover

Johnson, Crockett

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1606998234 ISBN 13: 9781606998236

Publisher: Fantagraphics Books, 2016

Synopsis

Vol. 3 collects the newspaper strip's postwar years of 1946–1947, continuing five-year-old Barnaby Baxter and his Fairy Godfather J.J. O’Malley’s misadventures. Bumbling but endearing, Mr. O’Malley rarely gets his magic to work—even when he consults his Fairy Godfather’s Handy Pocket Guide. The true magic of Barnaby resides in its canny mix of fantasy and satire, amplified by the understated elegance of Crockett Johnson’s clean, spare art. In its combination of Johnson’s sly wit and O’Malley’s amiable windbaggery, a child’s feeling of wonder and an adult’s wariness, highly literate jokes and a keen eye for the ridiculous, Barnaby expanded our sense of what comics can do.

About this title

Review:

Held in unparalleled regard by comics aficionados.

About the Author:

Crockett Johnson was the pen name of cartoonist and children's book illustrator David Johnson Leisk (October 20,1906-July 11, 1975). He is best known for the Harold series of books, which began with Harold and the Purple Crayon, and for the comic strip Barnaby. He was married to the children's book author Ruth Krauss, with whom he collaborated on several books, including The Carrot Seed.

About this edition

• Publisher: Fantagraphics Books
• Publication date: 2016
• ISBN 10: 1606998234
• ISBN 13: 9781606998236
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 3
• Number of pages: 376