Complete Little Orphan Annie Volume 14
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| Rating | : | 4.49 (918 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1631409778 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 272 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-12-01 |
| Language | : | English |
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—Scoop. Reading this book is like diving into history, without the musty smell. This series gives us a chance to reappraise Gray, one of the most controversial cartoonists of his generation." — Ben Schwartz, Book Forum “The Sunday pages are perhaps the truest color reproductions of this sort of early work. The blank-eyed orphan was far grittier and moving than the saccharine Annie you know from the damn musical. The cartoonist, a tightlipped Midwestern Dickens, pushes the virtues of honesty, pluck, and hard work in adventures that can melt the heart of even hard-boiled cynics like I pretend to be." — Art Spiegelman"In 1924, Gray offered Little Orphan Annie as a radical departure—a serious, often bleak drama. “One of the most impressive comic-strip collections ever produced.” — The WashingtonTimes “Check out The Complete Littl
America’s spunkiest kid, however, fails to heed the advice of the mysterious “witch” named Gypsy Belle, who warns of trouble and danger associated with the treasure. “Sunshine and Shadow” reprints all daily and color Sunday strips from August 19, 1948 through March 12, 1950.. A chronological reprinting of one of the most important comic strips of the 20th Century. Annie is a cultural icon--in both her red-headed, blank-eyed appearance, and as an embodiment of American individuality, spunk, and self-reliance. Soon enough, the wayward waif is evading mobsters, murderers, and…government tax collectors! Gray also dramatically responds to the anti-comic-book hysteria in this pre-Sedu
Harold Gray was born in 1894 in Kankakee, Illinois, and debuted Little Orphan Annie on August 5, 1924 and continued to write and draw the comic strip for forty-four years, until his death in 1968.