Animation Caricature and Gag and Political Cartoons in the United States and Canada

One of four volumes dealing with the world of comic art this volume is a comprehensive international bibliography dealing with animation caricature gag illustrative magazine and political cartoons in the United States and Canada. Reflecting the substantial growth of comic art literature in recent years it is representative of various types of publications writing formats and styles and languages from all over the world. The four volumes attempt for the first time to pull together the massive amount of comic art literature worldwide.Organized with meticulous detail the work consists of numerous resources including an annotated directory of 66 comic art-related periodicals; a section of comic art functions activities and relationships with various socio-cultural phenomena such as education eroticism ethnicity race social consciousness and violence; as well as historical and contemporary parts on animation caricature gag cartoons and political cartoons. At least 224 animators caricaturists and cartoonists are singled out for special prominence. Business legal and technical aspects of each genre make up other categories. The book is enhanced by Maurice Horn''s foreword retracing the pioneer work he and others did in the field of comic art studies. To further help the user the indices are systematically broken down by authors cartoonists characters and titles periodicals and subjects.