Cartoon County: My Father and His Friends in the Golden Age of Make-Believe
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| Rating | : | 4.66 (547 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B0713W58JZ |
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| Number of Pages | : | 545 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-12-15 |
| Language | : | English |
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. About the AuthorCullen Murphy is the editor at large at Vanity Fair and the former managing editor of The Atlantic Monthly. He lives in Massachusetts with his family. He is the author of The Word According to Eve, Just Curious, and God’s Jury
A poignant history of the cartoonists and illustrators from the Connecticut SchoolFor a period of about fifty years, right in the middle of the American Century, many of the the nation’s top comic-strip cartoonists, gag cartoonists, and magazine illustrators lived within a stone’s throw of one another in the southwestern corner of Connecticut—a bit of bohemia in the middle of those men in their gray flannel suits. Comic strips and gag cartoons read by hundreds of millions were created in this tight-knit group—Superman, Beetle Bailey, Snuffy Smith, Rip Kirby, Hagar the Horrible, Hi and Lois, Nancy, Sam & Silo, Amy, The Wizar
Cullen Murphy is the editor at large at Vanity Fair and the former managing editor of The Atlantic Monthly. He lives in Massachusetts with his family. He is the author of The Word According to Eve, Just Curious, and God’s Jury.