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

by Eddie Campbell

A rip-roaring and exhaustively researched new take on the origin of the comic strip by one of the leading cartoon storytellers of our time.

With more than 500 period cartoons, The Goat Getters illustrates how comics were developed by such luminaries as Rube Goldberg, Tad Dorgan, and George Herriman in the sports and lurid crime pages of the daily newspaper. This wild bunch of West Coast-based cartoonists established the dynamic...

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