Description: The first critical assessment of an American icon's lasting achievement
Brief description: Kerry D. Soper is director of the American studies program and associate professor of humanities, classics, and comparative literature at Brigham Young University. He is author of We Go Pogo: Walt Kelly, Politics, and American Satire; Gary Larson and "The Far Side"; and Garry Trudeau: "Doonesbury" and the Aesthetics of Satire, all published by University Press of Mississippi. His work has appeared in the Journal of American Studies, International Journal of Comic Art, INKS: Cartoon and Comic Art Studies, the Chronicle of Higher Education, and other periodicals.
Review Quotes: A well-paced and vividly drawn portrait. The biographical details are fascinating, helping to limn a person who remained willfully opaque throughout the peak of his fame.--Tom Heintjes "Hogan's Alley"