Wilbur D Nesbit

Oh Skin-Nay!

The Days of Real Sport
Illustrator: Briggs, Clare

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Poetry Verses by Wilbur D. Nesbit Afterword by Comics Historian Jeet Heer A grittier and less sentimental predecessor to Norman Rockwell, Clare Briggs exemplified the larger journey of American society from small-town innocence to urbane sophistication. The son of a farm machinery salesman, Briggs left his rural home as a young man to forge a career as an illustrator and cartoonist, earning success in such big-city papers as The Chicago Examiner, the Chicago Tribune, and the New York Tribune. Within a few years, he became one of the most popular and imitated cartoonists in America: Frank King, Milton Caniff, and the first generation of New Yorker cartoonists all emulated Briggs. Eschewing the roughneck humor of early comic strips, Briggs drew low-key strips in two modes: nostalgic reveries focused on memories of small-town boyhood and satirical strips about the squabbles inherent in married life. First published in 1913 by P. F. Volland and Company of Chicago, Oh Skin-Nay! is a collaboration between Briggs and poet Wilbur D. Nesbit and portrays a year in the life of small-town America through the eyes of the twelve-year-old boy-wood gathering, sleigh rides, games of post office, swimming holes, and sandlot ball games. This book is presented as a facsimile edition of double-page spreads containing short poems and full-page cartoons as well as an expanded afterword on Briggs by comics historian Jeet Heer.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Drawn & Quarterly
• Seitenzahl: 136
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. März 2007
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 318mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 1134g
• ISBN-13: 9781894937924
• ISBN-10: 1894937929
• Artikelnr.: 22473355

Autorenporträt

Wilbur D. Nesbit