Invisible Men: The Trailblazing Black Artists of Comic Books
2020Quattro, Ken
240 pages (color)
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1880 New Orleans, Louisiana - 1944 Hollywood, California. Known for: Cartoonist, illustration, genre painting.
Comics fans, comics historians, and mainstream art critics revere George Herriman today. He was never an especially popular cartoonist during his own lifetime. He created the incomparable Krazy Kat... Read full biography
Comics fans, comics historians, and mainstream art critics revere George Herriman today. He was never an especially popular cartoonist during his own lifetime. He created the incomparable Krazy Kat in the early 1920s, drew a dozen or more other strips, and illustrated the Archy and Mehitabel books.... Read full biography
Comics fans, comics historians, and mainstream art critics revere George Herriman today. He was never an especially popular cartoonist during his own lifetime. He created the incomparable Krazy Kat in the early 1920s, drew a dozen or more other strips, and illustrated the Archy and Mehitabel books. The Gumps appeared in nearly 300 papers, Bringing Up Father had 500, and Blondie exceeded 1,000 during the years that Krazy Kat appeared. The Kat and mouse opus, however, had only 48 papers in this... Read full biography
Comics fans, comics historians, and mainstream art critics revere George Herriman today. He was never an especially popular cartoonist during his own lifetime. He created the incomparable Krazy Kat in the early 1920s, drew a dozen or more other strips, and illustrated the Archy and Mehitabel books. The Gumps appeared in nearly 300 papers, Bringing Up Father had 500, and Blondie exceeded 1,000 during the years that Krazy Kat appeared. The Kat and mouse opus, however, had only 48 papers in this country. It remained in print because William Randolph Hearst was a fan and decreed the strip would run in his papers as long as Herriman wanted to draw it. George Joseph Herriman was born in New Orleans. Throughout his life, he gave conflicting... Read full biography
Comics fans, comics historians, and mainstream art critics revere George Herriman today. He was never an especially popular cartoonist during his own lifetime. He created the incomparable Krazy Kat in the early 1920s, drew a dozen or more other strips, and illustrated the Archy and Mehitabel books. The Gumps appeared in nearly 300 papers, Bringing Up Father had 500, and Blondie exceeded 1,000 during the years that Krazy Kat appeared. The Kat and mouse opus, however, had only 48 papers in this country. It remained in print because William Randolph Hearst was a fan and decreed the strip would run in his papers as long as Herriman wanted to draw it. George Joseph Herriman was born in New Orleans. Throughout his life, he gave conflicting stories about his parents and ethnic background, but never mentioned that his birth c... Read full biography
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Works on Paper from the Collection of the Sheldon Museum of Art
2016Rudd, Brandon and Gregory Nosan, Editors; Wally Mason, Director's Mewssage312 pages (color)Shadows on the Mesa: Artists of the Painted Desert and Beyond
2012Fillmore, Gary288 pages (color)The Artists Bluebook 34,000 North American Artists to March 2005
2005AskART.com Inc. -
Dunbier, Lonnie Pierson (Editor)479 pagesDavenport's Art Reference: The Gold Edition
2005Davenport, Ray2,421 pagesArtists in California: 1786-1940 (Two Volumes)
2002
Available For Sale.Hughes, Edan Milton1,249 pagesFor Sale<a href="mailto:info@askart.com">Available For Sale</a>.Who Was Who in American Art, 1564-1975: Three Volumes
1999Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor)3,724 pages100 Years of American Newspaper Comics An Illustrated Encyclopedia
1996Horn, Maurice (editor)414 pages (color)Dictionary of the Avant-Gardes
1993Kostelanetz, Richard246 pagesThe Encyclopedia of American Comics From 1897 to the Present
1990Goulart, Ron (Editor)408 pages (color)Figure and Abstraction
1990Paulson, Ronald283 pagesThe Smithsonian Collection of Newspaper Comics
1988Blackbeard, Bill and Martin Williams334 pages (color)Classic Comics & Their Creators Life Stories of American Cartoonists
1973Sheridan, Martin304 pagesAmerican Drawings: Drawings of the Masters
1965Hayes, Bartlett H Jr141 pages (color)Comic Art in America
1959Becker, Stephen387 pagesThe Comics
1947Waugh, Coulton360 pages (color)