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Tall Tales, Hardback Book

Tall Tales Hardback

Hardback

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Tall Tales was an innovative newspaper strip syndicated internationally by the New York Herald Tribune from 1957–1963.

Whereas newspaper strips are square, single-panel or multiple-panel horizontal gag cartoons, Al Jaffee, known for the Fold-In in MAD Magazine, once again altered the format of his work to create a vertical strip—the first, and last, in newspaper history.

Tall Tales contains the best 120 wordless strips out of over 2,200, scanned from the original files.

The book features a new preface by Jaffee and an introduction by Stephen Colbert of The Colbert Report. “Al Jaffee is the cartoonist’s cartoonist. He’s a pioneer in every field, from comic books to book illustration to magazine cartoons.

The worst thing about Jaffee is that every time I do a drawing, I find out he’s done it before . . . and better.”—Sergio Aragonés, cartoonist “This collection proves that not only has Al Jaffee always been funny, he’s always been disturbed.” — Stephen Colbert, from his introduction

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  • Format:Hardback
  • Pages:128 pages
  • Publisher:Abrams
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  • ISBN:9780810972728
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  • Format:Hardback
  • Pages:128 pages
  • Publisher:Abrams
  • Publication Date:
  • Category:
  • ISBN:9780810972728