R.F. Outcault's the Yellow Kid : A Centennial Celebration of the Kid Who Started the Comicsby R. F. Outcault
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R.F. Outcault's the Yellow Kid : A Centennial Celebration of the Kid Who Started the Comics
by R. F. Outcault
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Tijuana Bibles : Art and Wit in America's Forbidden Funnies, 1930s-1950s
by Bob Adelman, Richard Merkin, Art Spiegelman (Introduction)
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Hardcover - 160 pages (September 1997)
Simon & Schuster; ISBN: 0684834618 ; Dimensions (in inches): 0.69 x 9.32 x 12.06
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When Robert Crumb, S. Clay Wilson, Gilbert Shelton, and other Bay Area
misfits first started producing "underground" comics in the '60s,
they were considered to be highly innovative in their use of frank sexual
themes. However, some 10 to 15 years before they commenced their explicit,
often offensive cartoons, another genre of pornographic graphics was dying
out, the so-called "Tijuana Bibles" (or sometimes "Cuban
Bibles," "French Bibles," etc.). Simon & Schuster has
released a collection of these antique obscenities that often featured
famous political, show business, or cartoon figures having more fun than
mainstream censors would have allowed. The introduction, by comic book
apologist and New Yorker comics editor Art Spiegelman, is an amusing
and sarcastic look at the history of this lost medium, with some interesting
reflections on the genre, noting that "Though there are bound to be
those who will loudly declaim that the Tijuana Bibles demean women,
I think it important to note that they demean everyone ... it's what
cartoons do best." While the reprinted comic strips are often amusing
in being laughingly bad, the historical essays and asides by editor Bob
Adelman provide fascinating historical context. A sociology of mid-century
sexual mores and the love/hate relationship that Americans have with their
celebrities is evinced by the combination of reprint and commentary.
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