The Comic Strip Century: Celebrating 100 Years of an American Art Form

"One result of this rise in public esteem for the works of popular culture has been the publication of excellent coffee-table comic anthologies. 'The Smithsonian Collection of Newspaper Comics (1978), edited by Bill Blackbeard and the late Martin Williams, was particularly enlightening. Alongside it we can now place the two-volume, slipcased 'The Comic Strip Century,' co-edited by Blackbeard and Dale Crain."The Comic Strip Century: Celebrating 100 Years of an American Art Form, with ISBN 9780878163557 and ISBN 0878163557.