title: Art Out of Time: Unknown Comics Visionaries, 1900-1969
author:  Dan Nadel 
description: <i>Starred Review.</i> There are lots of anthologies of the work of the past century's famous cartoonists, but Nadel has done a real service in putting together this collection of 29 marvelous nearly unknown comic strip and comic book artists. Many are reprinted from yellowing newsprintin a few cases, like Walter Quermann's late-'30s newspaper strip Hickory Hollow Folks, from the only copies of their work still extant. Only a few, like Ogden Whitney's poker-faced '60s comic book <i>Herbie</i>, have ever been reprinted before. Nadel's five categories, "Exercises in Exploration," "Slapstick," "Acts of Drawing," "Words in Pictures" and "Form and Style," sometimes seem arbitrary; the biographical notes at the back are informative but all too brief. Still, it's hard to argue with the comics themselves. Charles Forbell's 1913 newspaper strip Naughty Pete looks like it had a huge influence on Chris Ware; Gustave Verbeek's bonkers formal experiment The Upside-Downs of Little Lady Lovekins and Old Man Muffaroo, from 1904, is still hilarious and sui generis; Rory Hayes's crude but meticulous horror stories from 1969's <i>Bogeyman Comics</i>, the most recent pieces here, were decades ahead of their time. Contemporary cartoonistsand their fanshave a lot to learn from the freewheeling, witty, try-anything-twice artistic attitude of the pieces Nadel's assembled. <i>(June)</i> <br />Copyright  Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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  WORLD COMICS & GRAPHIC NONFICTION SERIES
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  The World Comics and Graphic Nonfiction series includes 
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