Will Elder The Mad Playboy of Art SC (2003 Fantagraphics) comic books

1st printing. Edited by Gary Groth and Greg Sadowski. Introduction by Daniel Clowes. The definitive retrospective of the American satirist widely regarded as one of the most influential - and funniest - cartoonists of the second half of the 20th century. The Mad Playboy of Art includes representative samplings from Elder's best-known work from Mad, Panic, and Playboy's "Little Annie Fanny", and also: A 20,000 word biographical Essay by Gary VandenBergh tracing Elder's life and career, copiously illustrated with work from 1933 to the present; Over a hundred pages of comics and illustrations from such obscure magazines as Trump, Humbug, Help!, and Pageant; The legendary Goodman Beaver stories, reprinted for the first time in the same format in which they were drawn and originally published in 1961 and 1962; Paintings, portraits, still lifes, caricatures and sketches from Elder's personal collection. Softcover, 9" x 12", 392 pages, full color. Cover price $49.95.