Overview

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


ISBN-13

9780810972728

ISBN-10

0810972727

Weight

0.75 Pounds

Dimensions

4.25 x 0.75 x 9.00 In

List Price

$16.95

Edition

1st Edition

Format

Hardcover

Language

English

Pages

128 pages

Publisher

Harry N. Abrams

Published On

2008-09-01



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