Description: From a cartoonist and a veteran writer on the history of comics, a joyous reclamation of cartooning geniuses
Brief description: Robert C. Harvey (1937-2022) was a comics historian, critic, and cartoonist who wrote for The Comics Journal, Comics Buyers' Guide, and Cartoonist PROfiles. Among his books are Milton Caniff: Conversations, The Art of the Funnies: An Aesthetic History, The Art of the Comic Book: An Aesthetic History, Insider Histories of Cartooning: Rediscovering Forgotten Famous Comics and Their Creators, and Accidental Ambassador Gordo: The Comic Strip Art of Gus Arriola, all published by University Press of Mississippi.
Review Quotes: Bob Harvey is a triple threat in comics scholarship: an assiduous historian, a discerning critic, and a talented cartoonist. In this book he has hit a home run clear out of the park. Exploring little-known artists, characters, and obscure corners of cartooning history, these essays will challenge and correct many long-held assumptions about a beloved and now respected art form.--M. Thomas Inge, author or editor of numerous books on the comics, including Will Eisner: Conversations, My Life with Charlie Brown, and Comics as Culture