In Fantagraphicsā ceaseless effort to rediscover every world-class cartoonist in the history of the medium, we turn your attention to a neglected part of the art formāsports cartooningāand to its greatest practitionerāWillard Mullin. The years 1930-1970 were the Golden Age of both American sports and American comic strips, when giants strode their respective fieldsāBabe Ruth, Lou Gehrig, and Hank Aaron in one, George (Krazy Kat) Herriman, Milton (Steve Canyon) Caniff, Walt (Pogo) Kelly in the otherāand Mullin was there, straddling both fields, recording every major player and event in the mid-20th-century history of baseball. Mullin was to baseball players what Bill Mauldin was to soldiers: advocate and critic, investing them with personality, humanity, dignity, and poignancy; Mauldin had Willie & Joe and Mullin had the Brooklyn Bum, his affectionate 1939 character representing the bedraggled figure of the Brooklyn Dodgers. Willard Mullinās Golden Age of Baseball: Drawings 1934-1972 collects for the first time Mullinās best drawings devoted to baseballādepictions of players like Joe DiMaggio, Ted Williams, Yogi Berra, and Sandy Koufax, legendary managers like Casey Stengel and George Steinbrenner, and events like Lou Gehrigās emotional retirement speech on July 4, 1939, for which Mullin not only drew a portrait but composed a poem (which he often incorporated into his cartoons). Mullinās fluid line and delicate but vigorous brushwork are shown to beautiful effect, with many drawings reproduced from original art. See why millions of baseball fans from the ā30s to the ā70s looked forward to Mullinās cartoons in their daily paper. Mullins was voted āSports Cartoonist of the Centuryā upon his retirement by his peers, and his legacy has been summed up by New Yorker cartoonist Bob Staake, who wrote, āMullin defined the modern sports cartoon by combining representative portraiture, cartoonish doodlery, and editorial commentaryāpart news account, part personal observation, his cartoons celebrated sport for its entertainment, cultural, and artistic value.ā
This book title, Willard Mullin's Golden Age Of Baseball Drawings 1934-1972, ISBN: 9781606996393, by Willard Mullin, Hal Bock, Michael Powers, published by Fantagraphics (August 17, 2013) is available in hardcover. Our minimum order quantity is 25 copies. All standard bulk book orders ship FREE in the continental USA and delivered in 4-10 business days.
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