Hermes Press, USA 2012, 240 pages, great reproductions of some of the best original Pogo artwork, chapters: Overview / Walt Kelly at the Disney Studios / Ward Kimball Remembers Walt Kelly / Walt Kelly - The Comic Strip as a Work of Art / The First Pogo Strips / Walt, Wit, and Wordplay / Pogo's Politics / The Comic Book Pogo / The Pogo Paperbacks / The Animated Pogo / Holiday Art / Illustrations, Other Stuff, and Nonsense / Prehysterical Pogo Sundays / Walt Kelly up Close
hardcover with dust jacket, perfect (new) condition!
€ 36,90 ($ 50)
exhibition catalog, Casal Solleric, Fundació Palma Espai d'Art, 2010, 352 pages, hundreds of great reproductions of original art and old comic books, all texts written in three languages (Catalan, Spanish, English), probably the best catalog about Wallace Wood ever published
perfect (new) condition!
softcover: € 65.- ($ 88) // harcover (rare, was never for sale!) € 179.- ($ 242)
I do have some slightly damaged copies, still new but with one slightly bumped corner or something similar, the damage is really minor! price: softcover € 40.- ($ 54) // hardcover € 130.- ($ 175)
exhibition catalog, Bilderbuchmuseum, Troisdorf, Germany, 2012, a well designed book full of informations (German text) about the American comic and animation film pioneer Winsor McCay
chapters: Die frühen Jahre / Auf dem Weg zum Comic / Little Sammy Sneeze / Käsetoast-Alpträume (Dream of the Rarebit Fiend) / Selbstreferenzialitäten / Träume (Little Nemo) / Architekturen / Editorials und Allegorien (politische Karikaturen) / Kinderstube des Zeichentrickfilms (Gertie the Dinosaur) / Hearst, McCay, die Lusitania und der Weltkrieg / Das Spätwerk / McCay nach McCay (Robert McCay)
354 pages, hundreds of pictures, amongst them many of rare original art! new (still sealed)
€ 49.- ($ 67)
samples for interior pages from the McCay book:
comicplus+, 2010, hardcover, 144 pages, many colored pictures, German text
content: Der Verleger als künstlerischer Entscheider: Caspar Braun / Afrikaner im deutschen Kolonialcomic / Wilhelm Busch / Der Sprechblasencomic im Widerstreit der Kulturen / Hellmuth M. Peter / Horst von Möllendorff / Carl Meffert & Clément Moreau / Der frühe Reinhold Escher / Franziska Bilek / Roland Kohlsaat / Wolfgang Altenburger / Comic-Salon Erlangen 1984
new - stil sealed!
€ 38.- ($ 51)
exhibition catalog, softcover, 344 pages, 217 colored pictures, German text
new - stil sealed!
€ 16,90.- ($ 23)
The Carl Barks Library of Walt Disney's Donald Duck / Uncle Scrooge
Another Rainbow Publishing, Scottsdale, Arizona, USA, 1980's, published in 10 boxes with 30 hardcover books containing all of Barks' Disney comic pages (b&w, English language), articles and a lot of material never published anywhere else. The best and most complete edition of this great work!
The following single sets (each one containing 3 books in a slipcase) are available right now:
Set 1 (I): Four Color & Donald Duck #9 - 223, very fine+ ...€ 110.- ($ 149)
Set 2 (II): Four Color #238 - 422 & Donald Duck #26 - 138, books near mint, slipcase very fine ...€ 110.- ($ 149)
Set 3 (III): Uncle Scrooge #1 - 20, near mint ...€ 100.- ($ 135)
Set 4 (IV): Uncle Scrooge #21 - 43, near mint ...€ 180.- ($ 243)
Set 7 (VII): WDC&S #31 - 94, near mint ...€ 270.- ($ 365)
Set 8 (VIII): WDC&S #95 - 166, near mint ...€ 130.- ($ 175)
Set 9 (IX): WDC&S #167 - 229, near mint ...€ 190.- ($ 256)
Ulrich Merkl: The Complete Dream of the Rarebit Fiend (1904 - 1913) by Winsor McCay "Silas"
Germany, 2007, English Language, This is it! A large 464-page-book about McCay's second masterpiece (together with "Little Nemo"). For the first time Merkl brought together all 819 episodes of the "Rarebit Fiend" which can be seen on a CD enclosed in this heavy book. For the chapters see the fourth of the interior pages below. handbound, 43 x 31 cm!, 4,5 kg! out of print and not available at the publisher anyomore!
€ 98.- (USD 132)
I am the exclusive distributor for this book worldwide. I am sending it out directly all over Europe. US-American customers can also puchase it directly from me. For them the book would be sent out from New Jersey so the postage by media mail (up to 10 days delivering time) will be only $ 19.
samples for interior pages from the Rarebit Fiend book:
publisher: Tiroler Schützenbund, 2009, hardcover, 230 pages
reprint of a very rare comic from 1959, now in color! German language
new! still sealed!
€ 30.- ($ 40)
The second Havank Adventure masterfully written and drawn by Daan Jippes in a big sized format (30 x 42,5 cm), hardcover, published by Lijndienst 2009, signed, numbered and limited to 200 copies, Dutch language, contains a long "making of" written by Daan, all layouts for the pages and the complete story of course; comes with a big handdrawn original which shows one of the main characters (picture on the left is just a sample)
new - in perfect condition!
€ 148.- ($ 201)
Little Nemo Editore, Milano 2008, Antonio Rubino (1880 - 1964) developed the Italian Art Nouveau into a kind of colorful graphic Art Deco. Rubino belonged to the Italian Futurists and became one of the big masters of Italian book illustration and comic art. hundreds of colored illustrations and Italian text on 240 pages - beautiful!
€ 59,80 ($ 81)
exhibition catalog about Carl Barks, Karikaturmuseum Krems, Austria, 2007, content: Erinnerungen an Entenhausen / Donald in "The Wise Little Hen" / Carl Barks in den Disney Studios / Carl Barks, der Comic-Literat / Tick, Trick und Track / Dagobert Duck / Die Nebenfiguren in Barks' Geschichten / Barks' Comic-Originalseiten / Die Titelbilder / Manuskripte - Das Spätwerk von Carl Barks / Barks-Biographie von Michael Barrier / Donald und die Künstler
short but good texts in German language, nice reproductions of original art, 144 pages, new (still sealed)
€ 26,90 ($ 36)
exhibition catalog, Museum Huelsmann, Bielefeld, Germany, 2008, a well designed book full of informations (German text) about the American Newspaper Comics containing chapters about the Yellow Kid, Buster Brown & Co., Lyonel Feininger, Winsor McCay, Charles Forbell, George Herriman, George McManus, Cliff Sterrett, Chic Young, Chester Gould, Milton Caniff, Harold Foster, Walt Kelly, Tony Millionaire, Maakies and Tomas Bunk
246 pages, 335 pictures, amongst them many of rare original art! new (still sealed)
€ 35.- ($ 48)
Thomas Andrae: Carl Barks and the Disney Comic Book - Unmasking the Myth of Modernity
The University Press Mississippi, USA, 2006, paperback, 306 pages, a few b&w pictures and a lot of new ideas about the Duck Man by one of the World's greatest Barks experts, chapters are: Rereading Donald Duck / The Duck Man / From Burbank to Duckburg / American Gothic / The Garden in the Machine / Resurrecting the Self-Made Man / The Postmodern Crack-Up
€ 19.- ($ 27)
exhibition catalog, Little Nemo, Italy 2004, 152 pages, softcover, around 100 perfect reproductions of original artwork by most of the great European comic artist plus short biographies in Italian language; a "must" for the original art fan!
€ 36.- ($ 48)
