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Preview: Genius Illustrated: The Life and Art of Alex Toth

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Genius Illustrated: The Life and Art of Alex Toth

(W) Dean Mullaney, Bruce Canwell (A) Alex Toth
In Shops: Mar 08, 2023
SRP: $34.99

Dean Mullaney and Bruce Canwell continue their comprehensive review of the life and art of Alex Toth in Genius, Illustrated. Covering the years from the 1960s to Toth’s poignant death in 2006, this oversized book features artwork and complete stories from Toth’s latter-day work at Warren, DC Comics, Red Circle, Marvel, and his own creator-owned properties, plus samples of his animation work for Hanna-Barbera, Ruby-Spears, and others, as well as sketchbook pages, doodles, advertising art, and other rarities. A full-length text biography will chart the path from Toth’s increasingly-reclusive lifestyle to his touching re-connection to the world in his final years.

Genius Illustrated: The Life and Art of Alex Toth

Preview: Genius Isolated: The Life and Art of Alex Toth

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Genius Isolated: The Life and Art of Alex Toth

(W) Dean Mullaney, Bruce Canwell (A/CA) Alex Toth
In Shops: Sep 28, 2022
SRP: $34.99

In comic books, Alex Toth was the foremost proponent of modern design and composition. Starting in 1950, his work influenced almost every one of his contemporaries and has continued to work its magic on the generations that followed. Now in paperback, this biography was compiled with complete access to the family archives and with the full cooperation of Toth’s children, this biography features many rare comics pages, photographs, and drawings. Updates include clarification on Toth’s early married life in the 1950s and the first appearance of the recently disovered final page that completes the special section collecting Jon Fury, the comic strip Toth created in the army, a prize long sought by even the most ardent Toth collectors.

Genius Isolated: The Life and Art of Alex Toth

Preview: SCREWBALL! The Cartoonists Who Made the Funnies Funny

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SCREWBALL! The Cartoonists Who Made the Funnies Funny

Dean Mullaney (Author) • Bruce Canwell (Author) • Paul C. Tumley (Author)

The story of screwball comics, with new research and rare art from some of the most hilarious cartoonists of all time.

Before “screwball” became a movie genre, it was a staple of other forms of American culture, including newspaper comic strips. Emerging from the pressures of a rapidly accelerating technological and information-drenched society, screwball comics offered a healthy dose of laughter and perspective. Comics scholar Paul C. Tumey traces the development of screwball as a genre in magazine cartoons and newspaper comics, presenting the lives and work of around two dozen cartoonists, with an art-stuffed chapter on each.

Screwball! offers a wealth of previously un-reprinted comics, unleashing fresh views of some of America’s greatest and most-loved cartoonists, including George Herriman (Krazy Kat), E.C. Segar (creator of Popeye), Winsor McCay (Dreams of the Rarebit Fiend), Rube Goldberg (The Inventions of Professor Lucifer G. Butts, A.K.) and Bill Holman (Smokey Stover). In addition, readers will be delighted to discover previously “lost” screwball masters including Gene Ahern (The Squirrel Cage), Gus Mager (Sherlocko the Monk), Milt Gross (Count Screwloose), George Swanson ($alesman $am) and many others.

HC • FC • 272 pages • 11” x 10.5” • ISBN: 978-1-68405-187-8

SCREWBALL! The Cartoonists Who Made the Funnies Funny