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Outcault, Richard Felton / Bill Blackbeard (introd.)
R.F. Outcault's the Yellow Kid. A centennial celebration of the kid who started the comics.
Northampton, Kitchen Sink Press, 1995. First edition.
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Softcover, 301pp., 23x30.5cm., richly illustr. in col. and b/w., in very good condition (covers with light traces of use). Rare. ISBN: 9780878163793.
The Yellow Kid was the main character in the precursor to today's comic strips (and is so well-recognized as such that the US Postal Service has issued a centennial commemorative stamp in his honor). This volume reprints the Yellow Kid strips for the first time since their original publication in 1895-98 in their entirety and in their original color. Extensive text by Bill Blackbeard, director of the San Francisco Academy of Comic Art traces the history and sets the context.