Peanuts, Pogo and Hobbes: A Newspaper Editor's Journey through the World of Comics - Hardcover

Lockwood, George

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 081561005X ISBN 13: 9780815610052

Verlag: Syracuse University Press, 2013

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Críticas:

A memoir by a newspaper editor who loved comic strips and who had the opportunity to publish many of them and meet their creators, the book describes some of the author's favorite strips and sets them in American social history, while grieving over the death of the newspaper comic and the rise of crude and 'lousy' comics in their place.--Jack David Eller, Anthropology Review Database

George Lockwood, a child of the Great Depression, never lost his love for the news-paper's daily black-and-white strips and the color Sun-day comic inserts. When he became a newspaper editor of the Milwaukee Journal in the 1960s, one of his jobs was deciding which strips to add and drop. Because of that, he got to meet legendary comics artists like Walt Kelly (who wrote him into a strip by drawing his nick-name "Ol' Journal George" on the side of Pogo's swamp rowboat), Al Capp, Milton Caniff, Bill Maul-din, Chester Gould, Charles Schultz, Garry Trudeau, and Bill Watterson. This book is his charmingly chatty "comic strip memoir" (xv).--Stephen Curley Texas A&M University at Galveston "Journal of American Culture "

Reseña del editor:

George Lockwood spent 30 years working for the Milwaukee Journal where he became the managing editor for features. Written from thie inside perspective of a newspaper editor and with the nostalgic tone of a man who grew up loving comics, Peanuts, Pogo and Hobbes is an engaging blend of the author's personal experiences with cartoonists and his discussion of the importance of comics.

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• Verlag: Syracuse University Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2013
• ISBN 10: 081561005X
• ISBN 13: 9780815610052
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 304