Book
The goat getters : a new angle on the beginnings of comics casting a bright spotlight on the Fight of the Century and reserving a few mellow sidelights for the San Francisco Graft Trials, Harry Thaw's murderous crime of passion, the story of the Lemon ; artists: Jimmy Swinnerton!! Tad Dorgan!! Robert Edgren!! Bud Fisher!! Rube Goldberg!! George Herriman!!
Publication Information
San Diego, CA : co-published by IDW Publishing, a division of Idea and Design Works, LLC : The Ohio State University Press, [2018]
Physical Description
320 pages : illustrations ; 24 x 30 cm
Notes
"A goodly number of the pictures in this book are produced from paper copies in the Ohio State University Billy Ireland Cartoon Library & Museum, San Francisco Academy of Comic Art Collection, as noted in their individual captions"--Unnumbered page 5.
Contents
- Of the 1,500,000 human beings
- Move on there, Jimmy Swinnerton
- While the lightning special sped
- Tremendous race behind a locomotive
- My dogs are barking
- The spotlight for Fitz
- Writhes under ordeal
- Thanks for the lobster
- Shock felt from coast to coast
- Gooseberry sprig reveals
- A mutt confesses
- Please Mr. Jeffries
- Reno now center
- Likewise, Myrtle
- Any big fat boob
- Death hastened.