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Perfect Nonsense

Perfect Nonsense The Chaotic Comics and Goofy Games of George Carlson

Hardback (24 Jan 2014)

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Publisher's Synopsis

Perfect Nonsense tells the complete story behind one of the most innovative and underrated Golden-Age artists, classic children's illustrators and nonsense poets in comic history. For more than 50 years, Carlson created thousands of distinctive and dynamic cartoons, comics, riddles and games that thrilled both children and adults with their fanciful spirit and nonsensical humour. This marks the first ever career retrospective of this startling cartoonist, showcasing material both exquisite and obscure.

About the Publisher

Fantagraphics Books

Fantagraphics Books

Fantagraphics Books has been a leading proponent of comics as a legitimate form of art and literature since it began publishing the critical trade magazine The Comics Journal in 1976. By the early 1980s, Fantagraphics found itself at the forefront of the burgeoning movement to establish comics as a medium as eloquent and expressive as the more established popular arts of film, literature, poetry, et al. Fantagraphics quickly established a reputation as an advocacy publisher that specialized in seeking out and publishing the kind of innovative work that traditional comics corporations who dealt almost exclusively in super-heroes and fantasy either didn?t know existed or wouldn?t touch: serious, dramatic, historical, journalistic, political, and satirical work by a new generation of alternative cartoonists as well as many artists who gained prominence as part of the seminal underground comix movement of the '60s. Fantagraphics has since gained an international reputation for its literate and audacious editorial standards and its exacting production values.

Book information

ISBN: 9781606995082
Publisher: Fantagraphics
Imprint: Fantagraphics Books
Pub date:
Language: English
Number of pages: 315
Weight: 1656g
Height: 313mm
Width: 230mm
Spine width: 30mm

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