Part of a ten-volume bibliography series on comic art compiled by John A. Lent during the past decade; this volume provides more information on U.S. and Canadian comic art; animation; caricature; and gag; political; illustrative; and magazine cartoons than any other printed source in the world. Lent; founding editor of International Journal of Comic Art and longtime scholar of cartooning globally; takes great pains to be exhaustive; representative; and accurate in providing 11;367 citations of books; chapters; articles; and fugitive materials gleaned from a variety of sources worldwide; including about 400 periodicals and journals.Easy to use; incorporating a well-structured outline that includes categories and sub-categories; Lent spans every conceivable aspect of comic art. Other features include periodical directories for both Canada and the United States with addresses; typical contents; and inaugural dates of 101 comic art-related journals; magazines; and fanzines; and citations to hundreds of cartoonists and animators and their characters and works. Undoubtedly; this volume and the other nine in the Greenwood/Praeger series are unequalled as the definitive comic art bibliographies.
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