Cartoon County: My Father and His Friends in the Golden Age of Make-Believe

by Cullen Murphy

Book Overview

A poignant history of the cartoonists and illustrators from the Connecticut School

For a period of about fifty years, right in the middle of the American Century, many of the the nation's top comic-strip cartoonists, gag cartoonists, and magazine illustrators lived within a stone's throw of one another in the southwestern corner of Connecticut--a bit of bohemia in the middle of those men in their gray flannel suits.

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• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0374298556
• ISBN13: 9780374298555
• Release Date: November 2017
• Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 2.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 8.3" x 9.4"