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Comic strip art

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Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 196 Collections and/or Records:

The Acme Novelty Library Vol.1 Number 3 / Ware, Chris., 1994

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Identifier: CC-39563-41521
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This is the first issue (although numbered 3) of a made-up library periodical newsletter that consists mostly of comic strips rendered by Ware. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1994

The Art of Rube Goldberg [Selected by Jennifer George] / Goldberg, Rube ; Gopnik A., 2013

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Identifier: CC-59903-10002953
Scope and Contents The front cover of this volume is a moveable design created by Andrew Baron. It is edited by Rube Goldberg's granddaughter Jennifer George.Amazon.com: Rube Goldberg was born in 1883 during the golden age of invention, just eight years after Bell patented his telephone and five years after Edison filed his first light bulb patent. A flood of new machines were developed and commercialized during his youth, and while he produced a wide range of comic art throughout his long career, he's most famous for lampooning our modern fascination with mechanical contraptions.Goldberg started drawing as a young child, grew up to study and work as an engineer, and then combined his love of art and technology, keeping at it with such a consistently witty flair that his name became a household word. More than a humorist, his political cartoons won him both a Pulitzer Prize and such enmity during World War II that he asked his sons to change their family name to George for their own protection. He...
Dates: 2013

The Art of the Possible: Comics Mainly Without Pictures / Koch, Kenneth ; Lehman D ; Thomson V., 2004

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Identifier: CC-42892-44934
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This book was published from a manuscript after Koch's death in July 2002. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2004

The Beats: A Graphic History / Pekar, Harvey ; Piskor, Ed ; Kerouac J ; Ginsberg A ; Burroughs WS ; McClure M ; Whalen P ; Rexroth K ; Snyder G ; Duncan R ; Ferlinghetti L ; Corso G ; Jones L ; Olson C ; Creeley R ; Patchen K ; Lamantia P ; DiPrima D ; levy da ; Kupferberg T ; Gysin B., 2009

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Identifier: CC-50230-71296
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What began among a small circle of friends in New York and San Francisco during the late 1940's and early 1950's laid the groundwork for a literary explosion, and this striking anthology captures the storied era in all its incarnations - from the Benzedrine-fueled antics of Kerouac, Ginsberg, and Burroughs to the painting sessions of Jay deFeo's disheveled studio, from the jazz hipsters to the beatnik chicks, from Chicago's College of Complexes to San Francisco's famed City Lights bookstore. Snapshots of lesser-known poets and writers sit alongside frank and compelling looks at the Beats' most recognizable faces. What emerges is a brilliant collage of - and tribute to - a generation, in a form and style that is as original as its subject. The text is by Harvey Pekar and others and the art is by Ed Piskor. Paul Buhle edited the book. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2009

The Captain Poetry Poems Complete / Nichol, bp ; curry jw ; bissett b., 2011

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Identifier: CC-55219-9998981
Scope and Contents Book Thug Internet: Poetry, comic book art, pop culture, concrete poetry, the lyric, the myth of the cowboy, even the myth of the poet-hero: these are just some of the avenues explored by bpNichol in The Captain Poetry Poems. In this short portrait of the poet as a young man, our hero is a dilemma: part fabrication and part confession, Cap is a character created by these poems that extends their author into realms of possible identities. Who is Captain Poetry? Is he a poet? Is he a hero? Is he the bearer of heretofore important and unknown knowledge? Written at a time when questions about what poetry might be; when questions about what the figure of the poet might be, The Captain Poetry Poems showed Nichol grappling with some of the cliches inherent to both his craft and his identity. Playful, even at times silly, but never without the human intelligence Nichol is best known for, these poems may not be the "best" work in Nichol's oeuvre, but their experiments reveal important...
Dates: 2011

The Captain Poetry Poems / Nichol, bp., 1971

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Identifier: CC-55218-53873
Scope and Contents This book was reissued by Book Thug in 2011 with a new afterword by bill bissett.Internet: This book tells the story of the eponymous superhero and his struggle to find happiness. Bald, beaked and wattled, "Cap""”Nichol's pet name for him"”is hardly the rock-jawed conqueror. In fact, with his visor, spandex, wings and six-pack abs, our man looks like a mutant chicken. Cap is a sad sack: self-conscious, plagued by doubts, undone by indecision, torn about his purpose in life. Nichol shouts encouragements from the sidelines ("O CAPTAIN POETRY SEE IT THRU") but, plum out of ideas, Cap finds himself in a Groundhog Day funk ("O he sings like a madman, talks like he's sane, / and does it each day again and again"). And popping up everywhere in the book (in one case even cradling Captain Poetry's head) is Nichol's most intriguing and disquieting alter ego: Milt the Morph, the dementedly smiling, empty-eyed troublemaker. It's obvious Nichol intended the book to be both a send-up of the...
Dates: 1971

The Class of '47 (reprint) / Creeley, Robert ; Brainard, Joe., 2007

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Identifier: CC-46381-49106
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This is a reprint of a limited edition artist book published in 1973 that was distributed on the occasion of an exhibition of Joe Brainard's artwork. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2007

The Editor, 2008

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Identifier: CC-51074-72155
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The text for this work is taken by beaulieu from "The Bat" by Mary Roberts Rinehart & Avery Hopwood (1920) and was assembled by Laliberte using Batman comics of the 1970s & 80s. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2008

The History Book 2nd Edition / Rydberg, Pal ; Jonsson, Gittan ; Elmquist, Annika ; Langemar, Ann Mari ; Carol Baum Schmorleitz, translator., 1976

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Identifier: CC-40995-42974
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This book was first published in Sweden and was translated from the Danish edition. It is a graphic approach to the subjugation of Africans and the dominance of capitalism as seen from the far left over the past 500 years. The polemics carry over to the Vietnam war and the Cuban revolution under Castro. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1976

The Jew of New York / Katchor, Ben., 1998

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Identifier: CC-31792-33308
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Katchor creates unusual characters in his imaginative epic concerning the struggle of Jews settling into the new world. In addition to the relating of this story with comic strips, several pages and the end papers depict facsimilies of printed ephemera of the 19th century. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1998

the portal / Topel, Andrew., 2011

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Identifier: CC-52924-74064
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The image was generated with a computer and then printed from a computer file by an internet service. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2011

This is Visual Poetry. No.39/Apr / Carol Stetser., 2010

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Identifier: CC-51979-73081
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On the back cover, it is stated that these MAD COMIX are inspired by Japanese anime. The words by Mad Magazine cartoonist, Don Martin, have been alphabetically formatted by Vittore Baroni with help from some internet fans. The prints exist solely to entertain. Soundtrack provided. Enjoy! Grateful acknowledgement is made to the editors of the publications in which some of the prints in this chapbook first appeared: Arte Postale, Franticham's Assembling Box, Letter Founder, and Offerta Speciale. Thanks also to Jack for the anime. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2010

Torque: maximum rotation ephemera series: [untitled]. No.1.6-2.1 / RM Vaughan., 1995

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Identifier: CC-37613-39470
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This issue is a supplement of by Torque 1.6-2.1. The leaflets depict a comic strip character with a caption at the bottom. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1995