About this title: Sunday Press Books presents a masterpiece in comic art by Frank King. Collected for the first time, here are the best Gasoline Alley Sunday comics, starting from the very first Sunday in 1921. King's innovations in art, layout and storytelling brought a new warmth and style to the medium at the dawn of the Golden Age of newspaper comic strips.
This book is designed by Chris Ware with an introduction by Jeet Heer. As with the Sunday Press editions of Little Nemo in Slumberland, these incredible Sunday pages are shown digitally restored to their original colorful brilliance and reproduced ...
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: SundayPress
Date Published: 2007
ISBN-13:9780976888529ISBN:0976888521
Description: As New in As New dustjacket. Limited! Gasoline Alley evoked the kindness and sweetness of everyday American life in a bygone era. Collected here are the best Sunday comics from the first two decades of King's masterpiece. In this collection one can see how King was a true innovator, with his distinctive graphic style and design as well as with story and characters. In this impressive, huge, over-sized volume the incredible Sunday pages have been digitally restored to their original colorful ... read more
"This is quite simply the most beautiful book I have ever seen, and it's among my most treasured books. I never would have known what incredible strips Frank King created for the Sunday papers if I hadn't seen them in their original size and colors. It's a really expensive book, I know. I begged and pleaded like a 7 year-old and my parents bought it for my birthday. But if you can't afford it, it doesn't matter. Persuade your library to buy it. It is a true treasure of American culture."
"Gasoline Alley was a strip penned by Frank King, starting in the 1920's and featured in the Chicago Tribune. It was a strip that featured Walt and his adopted son, Skeezix, and the rest of the Gasoline Alley gang through the years of their lives (and, as it continues to the present day, through successive generations of the Wallet family--although it is a far inferior strip nowadays). This collection reproduces the Sunday strips, which were full-page and in brilliant color. The book is oversized, about the size of a newspaper from the time the strips were produced--so it was a bit of a hassle when I took it on the T with me so I could show a co-worker who had got me into the strip, but was well worth it to see his reaction."
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