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Alay-Oop HC (2019 New York Review Comics) comic books 2019

  • Issue #1-1ST
    Alay-Oop HC (2019 New York Review Comics) 1-1ST


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    1st printing.

    Story and art by William Gropper.

    William Gropper was one of the great American cartoonists and illustrators of the twentieth century. A student of George Bellows and Robert Henri, he was a prolific newspaper cartoonist, WPA muralist, Guggenheim Fellow, and committed political activist. He was also a master of visual storytelling, best seen in his only full-length narrative work, Alay-Oop.

    First published in 1930, this lost classic of the graphic novel presents an unusual love triangle: two circus acrobats and the honey-tongued schemer who comes between them. In page after page of charming, wordless art, Gropper takes us from the big top to bustling New York streets, from a cramped tenement apartment to the shifting landscape of a dream, as his characters struggle with the conflicting demands of career, family, and romance.

    Hardcover, 5-in. x 7-in., 224 pages, B&W.

    Cover price $24.95.