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The New Comics Anthology

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I came across this book at a collectors fair in the late 1990's, and they wanted five bucks for it, after ten minutes of playing the game it was mine for four dollars, and as the cover price was: $19.95, I had done pretty well on this one.

At 288 pages and over eighty cartoonists featured, this book spans a decade (the eighties) of the works of that era's comic masters: Robert Crumb, Art Spiegleman, Matt Groening, Will Eisner, Bill Griffith, Los Brothers Hernandez & Dan O'Neill, (just to drop a few names.) There are many comics creators that were new to me that I learned of through the pages of this book, such as: Mariscal, Lloyd Dangle, Chris Ware, Carol Lay & Joost Swarte.

There is a small color section (16 pages) right in the center of the book, the rest is reprinted in glorious black & white. As you already have guessed with so many entries of comics works included by so many different artists, there is a wide deversity of styles to be found here. From Stalin to killer puppets, the stories range from irreverent humor to dark horror, from historical figures to modern day schmucks, a lot of different ground is traveled within the pages of this collection.

There is no hardcore sex, and the violence doesn't go to over-the-top, so there isn't much of this that will destroy the minds and morals of the kiddies, so you don't have to hide in the garden shed to enjoy this book.
If you can score this book for a reasonable price it is indeed worth a good look-see. This is one of the better books on comics talent that you are going to come across.
Four Stars!

A fun read, great examples of art from the era. For ME the R. Crumb art about bluesmen was worth the price alone!