Classic Comic Strips Month

0 Comments POSTED ON Nov 02 2007 AT 8:09 am BY Beat

200711020236 Classic Comic Strips MonthWe totally missed the announcement, but luckily Johanna caught it! In an historic example of détente, Fantagraphics, D&Q, Checker and IDW are teaming up! For Classic Comic Strips month, and an oversized promotional sampler:

This full-color 11″ x 17″ tabloid is a spectacular showcase of some of the finest comics art of the last century and a collector’s item in the making! Designed like an old-time classic newspaper comic strip supplement, Comic Strip Masterpieces will feature superb reproductions of some of the very finest Gasoline Alley, Dick Tracy, Krazy Kat, Little Nemo in Slumberland, Steve Canyon, Terry and the Pirates, Dennis the Menace, Flash Gordon, Yellow Kid, and Popeye strips, including many stunning full-color Sunday pages! There will also be a “sequel” of sorts to the hugely popular Unseen Peanuts (an annotated spread of Peanuts strips from the upcoming ninth volume of Complete Peanuts that have never been reprinted since their original newspaper release almost 40 years ago), as well as biographical notes on the cartoonists, a checklist of classic comic strip reprints, and more. Reading Comic Strip Masterpieces will be like traveling back in time to an era when comic strips were actually good!

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  1. Torsten Adair says:

    I would be a bit rankled by that last sentence, were it not for the What If wording. The fact is, Sunday comics were always hit or miss. Personally, I value the above mentioned creators, but story strip collections bore me. The exception: humor, like Pogo, Gordo, Popeye, Li’l Abner, and For Better Or For Worse.
    Now… how do I, as a bookseller, get copies to hand out to my customers?

  2. John Platt says:

    I ordered this a few months ago through Westfield Comics for the whopping price of 25 cents. I’m looking forward to it.

  3. Tommy says:

    I read about this at the Fantagraphics Blog but forgot about it. It sounds pretty cool. I love the vintage comic strips. My favorite is Nancy by Ernie Bushmiller.

    Thanks for the heads up,
    Tommy

    Are you a Batman Fan?
    http://www.bat-blog.com


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