King of the Comics: One Hundred Years of King Features Syndicate (The Library of American Comics) - Hardcover

Mullaney, Dean; Canwell, Bruce; Walker, Brian

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1631403737 ISBN 13: 9781631403736

Publisher: IDW Publishing, 2015

Synopsis

• Krazy Kat! Popeye! Flash Gordon! Beetle Bailey! Blondie! Prince Valiant! Hagar the Horrible! Barney Google and Snuffy Smith! Baby Blues! Mutt & Jeff! Zits! Juliet Jones! Buz Sawyer! Steve Canyon! Bizarro! Hi & Lois! Maggie & Jiggs! Johnny Hazard! There are simply too many to list because King Features has had a more illustrious and long-lasting history than any newspaper syndicate, even as it continues to lead the way into the digital age and beyond.
• This book is a centennial birthday bash hosted by Dean Mullaney, Bruce Canwell, and Brian Walker, with contributions by Brendan Burford, Lucy Shelton Caswell, Jared Gardner, Ron Goulart, Jeffrey Lindenblatt, Carl Linich, Paul Tumey, and Germund von Wowern. More than just comics, it’s a celebration of the profound impact that King Features has had on popular culture!

About this title

Review:

"King of the Comics: One Hundred Years of King Features Syndicate combines a historian's love of the art form with a fan's love of the strips themselves." -Mark Squirek, New York Journal of Book

About this edition

• Publisher: IDW Publishing
• Publication date: 2015
• ISBN 10: 1631403737
• ISBN 13: 9781631403736
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 288