Pull Back the Curtain with “Comics About Cartoonists: The World’s Oddest Profession”!
Wednesday, Jan 9th, 2013
An unbelievable lineup of legendary cartoonists take readers behind the drawing table TODAY!
San Diego, CA (January 9, 2013)
– Have you ever wanted to know what the life of a cartoonist
is like? Well, if you don’t have one handy, why not
have Jack Kirby, Steve Ditko, Wally Wood, Frank Frazetta,
Charles Schulz, Jack Cole, Dick Briefer, Winsor McCay, Chester
Gould, Sheldon Mayer, Milton Caniff, Ernie Bushmiller, Basil
Wolverton, B. Kliban, Rube Goldberg, Jack Chick, Milt Gross, Siegel
and Shuster, Will Eisner, Elzie Segar, Harvey Kurtzman,
and many, many more tell you by drawing a comic or cartoon to
explain about the cartoonist's life?
Surely, we jest! The bounds of time and space must certainly render
this endeavor impossible!
“Nay!” says Eisner-winner Craig Yoe, the acclaimed editor and designer!
For the first time, decades of rare work about their
lives and craft by these famous cartoonists has been collected into
one mind-blowing, meta-tacular book: Comics About
Cartoonists: The World’s Oddest Profession! Get the
inside scoop from some of the most lauded and legendary names in
the history of comics and learn what truly propels the cartooning
soul. The comics and cartoons gathered here are both
autobiographical fact and far-out fiction. The fanciful comics
feature cartoonists as protagonists in nearly every genre,
superheroes, science fiction, crime, funny animals, romance, war
comics, teen-age humor and plenty of horror. Yoe has left no
drawing table unturned, ensuring this full-color, hardcover
collection will be as eye-popping as it is intriguing and
entertaining.
Yoe asserts, "Cartoonists are my heroes. That makes this book
featuring comics about the ink-slingers themselves drawn by the
cartoonists themselves my very favorite book I've
done. Cartoonists and the people that love them are going to
go ape-poop over this one!"
The spectacular hardcover volume hits shelves today and has already
earned some high praise!
"The book is fantastic. Unusual stories and seeing them collected
in such a beautiful package is a real treat!" – Brigid
Alverson, Comic Book Resources
“Comics About Cartoonists: Stories About the World's
Oddest Profession, is a mind-blowing, gorgeous, 4-color
look at the "meta" concept of cartoonists in their own comics.
Classic comic creators such as Jack Kirby, Steve Ditko, Will
Eisner, and more present stories about their own unique profession
-- some cheerful, and some full of pathos.” – Valerie
Gallaher, MTV Geek
"IDW Publishing's Yoe Books, is a one-stop shop for visual thrills
about comics and pop culture." – Michael Dooley, In Print
Magazine
Let’s face it, there simply isn’t another lineup like
the one in Comics About Cartoonists!
Craig Yoe is available for convention appearances and interviews
with the press in regards to this and his other books. Find Yoe
Books' online at
http://yoebooks.com
and
http://www.youtube.com/theyoetube.
