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Animation, Caricature, and Gag and Political Cartoons in the United States and Canada An International Bibliography
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Compiled by John A. Lent
Foreword by Maurice Horn
ISBN: 0-313-28681-7
ISBN-13: 978-0-313-28681-0
440 pages
Greenwood Press
Publication: 7/30/1994
List Price: $115.00 (UK Sterling Price: £65.00)
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Media Type: Hardcover
Also Available: Ebook
Subjects:
Series Title: Bibliographies and Indexes in Popular Culture
Series Number: 3
Awards:
  • ALA/RASD History Section, Best Bibliographies in History, 1996
Reviews:
  • Lent is a prolific writer of books and articles on mass communication and a leading proponent of comic art scholarship. With these three compilations, he offers an enormous contribution to that scholarship. These works reflect long years of independent, painstaking compilation. What Lent has given us, is marvelous, and as comic art continues to be recognized and analyzed by various disciplines, these volumes should prove indispensable. All these titles are highly recommended for all academic collections.
    —Choice
  • ...an invaluable research tool that will save countless hours in the library....Lent is to be commended for his efforts. Scholars working in any discipline related to comic arts should encourage their institutions to add his bibliographies to the library reference collection. Those who have chosen comic arts as their primary field of research should seriously consider purchasing these bibliographies for their own research collection.
    —Studies in American Humor
  • Contains a tremendous amount of information and are of immense value to serious comics scholars. ...a necessary purchase for collections specializing in popular culture, comics, and mass media.
    —
    ARBA95
  • If a good laugh is necessary to enable us to withstand life, as Abraham Lincoln discovered, then John Lent provides many buffers to life's bumps. In this fourth volume dealing with comic art, Lent provides a comprehensive bibliography of all kinds of art throughout the U.S. and Canada....A necessary book on the shelves of all people and libraries interested in the history of voluminous literature of humor.
    —Journal of Popular Culture
Description: One of four volumes dealing with the world of comic art, this volume is a comprehensive, international bibliography dealing with animation, caricature, gag, illustrative, magazine, and political cartoons in the United States and Canada. Reflecting the substantial growth of comic art literature in recent years, it is representative of various types of publications, writing formats and styles, and languages from all over the world. The four volumes attempt for the first time to pull together the massive amount of comic art literature worldwide. Organized with meticulous detail, the work consists of numerous resources, including an annotated directory of 66 comic art-related periodicals; a section of comic art functions, activities, and relationships with various socio-cultural phenomena, such as education, eroticism, ethnicity, race, social consciousness, and violence; as well as historical and contemporary parts on animation, caricature, gag cartoons, and political cartoons. At least 224 animators, caricaturists, and cartoonists are singled out for special prominence. Business, legal, and technical aspects of each genre make up other categories. The book is enhanced by Maurice Horn's foreword, retracing the pioneer work he and others did in the field of comic art studies. To further help the user, the indices are systematically broken down by authors, cartoonists, characters and titles, periodicals, and subjects.
Table of Contents:
  • A Time There Was, or the Age of Innocence: A Foreword by Maurice Horn
  • Preface
  • Acknowledgments
  • Global and Comparative Perspectives
  • Canada
  • United States: Resources
  • United States: Comic Art
  • United States: Gag, Illustrative, Magazine Cartoons
  • United States: Animation
  • United States: Caricature
  • United States: Political Cartoons
  • Author Index
  • Subject Index
LC Card Number: 94-14433
LCC Class: NC1420
Dewey Class: 016.7415
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