Willard Mullin's Golden Age Of Baseball Drawings 1934-1972

Willard Mullin's Golden Age Of Baseball Drawings 1934-1972

This first-ever retrospective of the dean of American sports cartooning â€œstarsâ€ baseball greats such as Joe DiMaggio, Yogi Berra, Lou Gehrig, and many others.
In Fantagraphicsâ€™ 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 formâ€”sports cartooningâ€”and to its greatest practitionerâ€”Willard Mullin. The years 1930-1970 were the Golden Age of both American sports and American comic strips, when giants strode their respective fieldsâ€”Babe Ruth, Lou Gehrig, and Hank Aaron in one, George (Krazy Kat) Herriman, Milton (Steve Canyon) Caniff, Walt (Pogo) Kelly in the otherâ€”and 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 Mullinâ€™s Golden Age of Baseball: Drawings 1934-1972 collects for the first time Mullinâ€™s best drawings devoted to baseballâ€”depictions of players like Joe DiMaggio, Ted Williams, Yogi Berra, and Sandy Koufax, legendary managers like Casey Stengel and George Steinbrenner, and events like Lou Gehrigâ€™s 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). Mullinâ€™s 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 â€™30s to the â€™70s looked forward to Mullinâ€™s cartoons in their daily paper. Mullins was voted â€œSports Cartoonist of the Centuryâ€ upon his retirement by his peers, and his legacy has been summed up by New Yorker cartoonist Bob Staake, who wrote, â€œMullin defined the modern sports cartoon by combining representative portraiture, cartoonish doodlery, and editorial commentaryâ€”part news account, part personal observation, his cartoons celebrated sport for its entertainment, cultural, and artistic value.â€ Black & white illustrations throughout with some color

Country	USA
Author	Willard Mullin
Binding	Hardcover
Brand	Mullin, Willard/ Brock, Hal/ Powers, Michael
EAN	9781606996393
Edition	1
ISBN	1606996398
IsEligibleForTradeIn	1
Label	Fantagraphics
Manufacturer	Fantagraphics
NumberOfItems	1
NumberOfPages	200
PublicationDate	2013-08-17
Publisher	Fantagraphics
Studio	Fantagraphics
ReleaseDate	0000-00-00

Willard Mullin's Golden Age Of Baseball Drawings 1934-1972

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