The Goat-Getters: Jack Johnson, the Fight of the Century, and How a Bunch of Raucous Cartoonists Reinvented Comics

by Eddie Campbell

2019 Will Eisner Comic Industry Award Nominee, Best Academic/Scholarly Work

The Goat Getters is a rip-roaring narrative of the origin of the comic strip told from a new perspective by one of the leading cartoon storytellers of our time. It features a wild bunch of early twentieth-century cartoonists based on the West Coast, including Jimmy Swinnerton, Tad Dorgan, George Herriman, and Rube Goldberg, whose domain was the sports and lurid...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 168405138X
• ISBN13: 9781684051380
• Release Date: May 2018
• Publisher: Idea and Design Works
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 3.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 11.7" x 9.3"