The TOON Treasury of Classic Children's Comics

(Hardback)

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Originally published in 2009 and now back in print, for the first time, a collection of the greatest childrens comics, compiled by Art Spiegelman and Franoise Mouly, in a format modeled after the bestselling childrens book anthology The 20th Century Childrens Book Treasury: Picture Books and Stories to Read Aloud.

The TOON Treasury of Classic Children's Comics is an unprecedented collection of the greatest comics for children, artfully compiled by two of the best-known creators in publishing and the field of comicsArt Spiegelman and Franoise Mouly.

This treasury created for young readers focuses on comic books, not comic strips, and contains humorous stories that range from a single page to eight or even twenty-two pages, each complete and self-contained. The comics have been culled from the Golden Age of comic books, roughly the 1940s through the early 1960s, and feature the best examples of works by such renowned artists and writers as Carl Barks, John Stanley, Sheldon Mayer, Walt Kelly, Basil Wolverton, and George Carlson, among many, many others.

The book is organized into five categories (Hey, Kids!; Funny Animals; Fantasyland; Story Time!; and Wacky & Weird), and Spiegelman and Mouly have used their expertise to frame each category with an introductory essay, and provide brief biographies of the artists. The TOON Treasury of Classic Childrens Comics is essential reading for kids of all ages.

Author Bio

Art Spiegelman is an American comics writer, artist, and editor. He is the creator of Wacky Packages and Garbage Pail Kids for Topps, and is best known for his Pulitzer Prizewinning graphic novel memoir, Maus. Franoise Mouly is an artist and designer. Together with Art Spiegelman she edited the groundbreaking comics anthology Raw from 1980 to 1991. She has been the art editor for the New Yorker since 1993, and the former publisher of TOON Books. Jon Scieszka was the very first National Ambassador for Young People's Literature. He is the author of numerous bestsellers including The Stinky Cheese Man, which won a Caldecott Honor medal; the founder of Guys Read (guysread.com), a nonprofit literacy organization; as well as our own Frank Einstein series on the Amulet list.