Thimble Theatre & the Pre-Popeye Comics of E.C. Segar


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A revised and expanded edition of the Eisner-Award nominated classic collection, featuring a new 4-page, all Segar Sunday section.




Thimble Theatre and the Pre-Popeye Cartoons of E. C. Segar


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More than a decade before creating the world's most famous cartoon sailor, Elzie Crisler Segar drew the Charlie Chaplin comic strip, a daily strip about Chicago entertainment, and then Thimble Theatre, where Popeye was to be born. This volume features examples of all of Segar's early comics and over 100 pre-Popeye Thimble Theatre Sunday pages, including the complete run of the famed Western desert saga, a series that rivals his later work in art, storytelling and humor. These comics, most of which have never been reprinted before, are now here for the whole popeyed world to see.




Popeye Classics


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Re-presenting the classic Popeye comic book series that debuted in 1948 by Bud Sagendorf, the long-time assistant to creator E.C. Segar! Carefully reproduced from the original comic books and lovingly restored, Volume 1 contains issues #1-4, with stories such as "That's What I Yam," "Ghost Island," and "Dead Valley." Also includes all of Sagendorf's gloriously funny one-pagers.




Popeye Volume 1


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Well, blow me down! This new four-volume series collects the complete run of the original Popeye Sunday newspaper page adventures in an accessible and affordable slipcased paperback format!




McCay


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“A beautifully rendered take on the life of Winsor McCay.” – The Beat “Smolderen and Bramanti seamlessly interweave the real biography of Winsor McCay with an intriguing fictional premise, bringing a new dimension (literally) to the story of his life and art.” – Brigid Alverson, Smash Pages In the enchanted world of dreams, a killer roams free and only the author of Little Nemo can stop him. 1889, the young Winsor McCay crosses paths with two men who will change the course of his life: Silas the anarchist, who could be his evil twin, and Professor Hinton, the renowned British mathematician and fourth-dimensional specialist. But a terrifying experience will change McCay forever. Twenty years later, a series of impossible murders forces McCay to face his demons, and travel back to a world between worlds…




50 Girls 50


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Barely old enough to drink when he joined the EC Comics stable, Al Williamson may have been the new kid on the block, but a lifetime of studying such classic adventure cartoonists as Alex Raymond (Flash Gordon) and Hal Foster (Prince Valiant) had made him a kid to reckon with ― as he proved again and again in the stories he created for EC’s legendary “New Trend” comics, in particular Weird Science and Weird Fantasy.







Popeye


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A compilation of classic comic strips from the creator of the original Popeye cartoons follows the picaresque adventures of Popeye and his cohorts--Olive Oyl, Wimpy, Eugene the Jeep, the Sea Hag, and Alice the Goon.




The Complete E. C. Segar Popeye


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The Popeye daily cartoons by Segar conclude with the final years of 1935 through 1937.




The Peanuts Poster Collection


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In time for the 70th anniversary of Charles M. Schulz’s beloved comic strip Peanuts comes this deluxe poster book, with 20 posters Celebrate the 70th anniversary of Peanuts with this appealing, first-ever poster collection. From Charlie Brown to Woodstock, the gang’s all here in 20 art prints of the beloved comic strip—all photographed from the archives of the Charles M. Schulz Museum and Research Center in Santa Rosa, California.