The Funnies: 100 Years of American Comic Strips [Paperback]

Ron Goulart (Author)

Product Details

• Paperback: 248 pages
• Publisher: Adams Media Corp (October 1995)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1558505393
• ISBN-13: 978-1558505391
• Product Dimensions: 8.9 x 7.5 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.1 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #451,346 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
  • #70 in Books > Comics & Graphic Novels > History & Price Guides

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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars A book about comics, with hardly any comics in it, September 11, 2008

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This review is from: The Funnies: 100 Years of American Comic Strips (Paperback)

Man, I feel like a dullard saying I didn't like a book because it didn't have enough pictures, but here it goes: I didn't like this book because it didn't have nearly enough examples of the comics it was talking about. If you are looking for a written timeline of the history of comics, this is it. If you are looking for lots of examples of comics from those eras, get the vastly superior Smithsonian collection also available at Amazon.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Goulart is GREAT!, July 25, 2010

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Simon G. Barrett (london, england) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Funnies: 100 Years of American Comic Strips (Paperback)

I'm bemused at the lack of recognition the premier historian of this medium gets in its heartland. Maybe you take the history for granted. This isn't a picture book, guys, it's a magisterial overview of the artform. With pictures. Like Goulart's equally indispensible Adventurous Decade, now amazingly reissued. For the wider worldview the British-biased Penguin Book of Comics (weightier than it sounds) and the charmingly serious (but quite picture-heavy) French-inflected History of the Comic Strip by Couperie & Horn et al are still, I think, unrivalled.