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Edited by Rick Marschall and Warren Bernard
FantagraphicsI have nothing intelligent to say about this book. It's so good and that's all. I have no insight into it. It's bigger than me and I recognize that, and cannot attempt to be smart or insightful about it without studying it like a bible.This is a great big, beautiful collection of advertisements that will blow your mind. Sometimes the images are funny, sometimes they are in poor taste by modern standards, but all of the images in this book are gorgeous. There are lots of old drawings and scans of old printed images which have pretty colors fixed onto decaying newsprint. It's very easy for dimwits to enjoy this book because they'll see images like the one on the cover of the Yellow Kid, a child, smoking and blatantly inviting other kids to smoke. There's a couple images of black people, and caricatures that are almost definitely based on the Irish. But these don't make up the majority of the content. For the most part the things inside this book are just pretty.
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Edited by Alvin Buenaventura
Abrams ComicartsDan Clowes is the greatest cartoonist of the past couple of decades and we are all treading in his wake. I try not to make such grandiosely objective statements but I honestly can't think of anyone who comes close. OK, the Hernandez Brothers are also great. This book is a pleasant mix of essays about Clowes and interviews with him and pictures of him and his work, many of which are new to me and will be to you too. This book feels about eight years overdue, but it's here now though and that's what's important. Fantagraphics is producing their own book about Clowes due out pretty soon. Whose will be more Clowesier?
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