Elmo: An American Experiment: Volume One: Daily Comic Strips 10/28/46 to 8/48 - Softcover

Jensen, Cecil L.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1079107851 ISBN 13: 9781079107852

Publisher: Independently published, 2019

Synopsis

Created by journeyman political cartoonist Cecil Jensen, ELMO plopped onto the American comics page in the fall of 1946. With an absurd cool worthy of Nathanael West and dust-dry humor on par with W. C. Fields or S. J. Perelman, ELMO was the right idea at the wrong time. Exiled from his own strip within two years, this can-do Candide shoulda been a contender. Though a blip on the national radar, ELMO dropped H-bombs of quirky humor, surprising violence and a cast of craven, conniving and quixotic characters. Beautifully delineated by a master of old-school cartooning, ELMO has never been reprinted in book form. The strips have been restored from the best available examples by Eisner Award-winning comics creator and popcult historian FRANK M. YOUNG. It’s absolutely delicious—as advertised!

About this edition

• Publisher: Independently published
• Publication date: 2019
• ISBN 10: 1079107851
• ISBN 13: 9781079107852
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 206
• Editor: Young Frank M.