The Comic Strip Art of Lyonel Feininger

A collection of classic comic strips from a master of American comics and art. Out of print for a decade this new edition (with newly designed covers) of The Comic Strip Art of Lyonel Feininger features one of the ten cartooning greats featured in the historic "Masters of American Comics" show produced by the Los Angeles Hammer Museum and Museum of Contemporary Art and currently traveling across the country. It is the only complete collection of the legendary comic strips of one of the mediums all-time greatest artists. Known worldwide for his accomplishments as a painter Feininger began his career as a cartoonist producingall too brieflytwo beautifully ambitious comic strips for the Chicago Sunday Tribune in 1906: The Kin-Der-Kids and Wee Willie Winkies World both of which remain high points in the history of strip cartooning. The Kin-Der-Kids is a rollicking comic opera of the ludicrous exploits of a group of young adventurers as they set off around the world in their bathtub with the oppressive Auntie Jim-Jam in hot pursuit. Wee Willie Winkies World is a Little Nemo-esque visual tour-de-force of a little boys charming fantasy world. Long considered an equal of Winsor McCay and George Herriman Feiningers place in strip history is cemented with this beautiful full-color oversized collection edited and featuring an introduction by historian Bill Blackbeard (Krazy & Ignatz).