Tijuana Bibles: Art and Wit in America's Forbidden Funnies, 1930S-1950s - Hardcover

Adelman, Bob; Merkin, Richard; Spiegelman, Art; Kripke, Madeline

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0684834618 ISBN 13: 9780684834610

Publisher: Simon & Schuster, 1997

Synopsis

Crammed with 140 illustrations, twenty in color, a collection contains selections from the Tijuana Bibles, risque comic books of the thirties, forties, and fifties that poked erotic fun at the celebrities and issues of the day. 20,000 first printing.

About this title

Review:

"Charming and evocative, these artefacts present a little-known cultural history." - The New Yorker"

About the Author:

Bob Adelman is an author, editor, teacher, book producer, and world-renowned photojournalist. His picture stories have frequently appeared in Life, the London Times Magazine, Stern, and the New York Times Magazine. In varying roles he has done more than forty books; the most recent are his Carver Country and Visions of Liberty. He vividly recalls his nervous excitement at first gaping at a Tijuana Bible. Nowadays he more maturely reads them for laughs and insights, but now and again their provocative powers become undeniable.

About this edition

• Publisher: Simon & Schuster
• Publication date: 1997
• ISBN 10: 0684834618
• ISBN 13: 9780684834610
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 160