Alley Oop's Ancestors: The Newspaper Cartoons of V.T. Hamlin

by Frank Stack and Michael H. Price

Cartoonist V.T. Hamlin's breakthrough to prominence came early on in the 1930s with a comic strip called ALLEY OOP -- still running in the New Century, generations after Hamlin's death. This new volume, ALLEY OOP'S ANCESTORS, traces the evolution of Hamlin's style during the 1920s through two humor strips for a newspaper in Texas, the Star-Telegram of Fort Worth. From 1924 comes the absurdist slapstick fable of THE HIRED HAND, and from 1925-1926 comes...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1511594349
• ISBN13: 9781511594349
• Release Date: April 2015
• Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
• Length: 76 Pages
• Weight: 0.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 5.0" x 8.0"