Children of the Yellow Kid: The Evolution of the American Comic Strip Wandering Star Carol Kalish

Carol Kalish

Signed by the artist and embossed with his personal blind stamp

with over 50 illustrations depicting the artist’s most important commissions

All the plates are reproduced in the format of the originals

Now Agent Carver lives one day at a time

Children of the Yellow Kid: The Evolution of the American Comic Strip Wandering Star Carol KalishAn exhibition catalogue with 136 items described and illustrated. Traces the development of the comic strip since its birth at the turn of the century. The reproductions of vintage strips are strikingly pristine, due to the use of original artwork rather than published versions in the production of the volume. The author, a seasoned writer and scholar of the subject is good at historical and aesthetic discussion, less so at discussing the sociological