Comic Art of the United States Through 2000 Animation and Cartoons

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 11367 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.