Society is Nix: Gleeful Anarchy of the Dawn of the American Comic Strip 1895-1915

THE BIRTH OF COMICS. From the Yellow Kid to the Captain and the Kids, these are the origins of the American comic strip, created at a time when there were no set styles or formats, when artistic anarchy helped spawn a new medium. This book features the earliest offerings (1895 to 1915) from the famous and lesser-known cartoonists who where there when comics were born-over 150 creations from more then 50 superb artists, most reprinted for the first time ever. And all in the original broadsheet size and brilliant colors. Chris Ware calls Society Is Nix,"a mind-blowing portable museum retrospective of the raw, tangled ferocity and frustration that went into the making of America." Art Spiegelman exclaimed, ..."never thought anything like this could exist outside my dream life."