Children of the Yellow Kid: The Evolution of the American Comic Strip Dean Yeagle low and high art

low and high art

Life in Hell ran from 1977-2012

Signed by author Denis Kitchen

Kim Deitch & Gilbert Hernandez

and hard work

Children of the Yellow Kid: The Evolution of the American Comic Strip Dean Yeagle low and high artAn exhibition catalogue with 136 items described and illustrated. Traces the development of the comic strip since its birth at the turn of the century. The reproductions of vintage strips are strikingly pristine, due to the use of original artwork rather than published versions in the production of the volume. The author, a seasoned writer and scholar of the subject is good at historical and aesthetic discussion, less so at discussing the sociological