Friday, April 2, 2010

New Captain Easy collection by Roy Crane -- At Last!

Finally! A full-color collection of Captain Easy Sunday comic pages! Roy Crane is my favorite cartoonist of all time, and this is some of his greatest work!

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Click HERE for more info!
and check out this preview video from the publisher:
Video courtesy Fantagraphics Books

Roy Crane combined breakneck action and nail-biting suspense with a bigfoot cartoony style that produced a timeless classic strip that would influence the biggest names in 20th century cartoon art, including Milton Caniff, Wally Wood, Harvey Kurtzman and Charles Schulz.

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R.C. Harvey says it all in
the best article on Roy Crane that I have ever read:
http://www.adventurestrips.com/washtubbs/
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...and some more Roy Crane links to peruse: http://lambiek.net/artists/c/crane_r.htm http://www.stevestiles.com/crane.htm http://www.adventurestrips.com/washtubbs/ http://greatest.cartoonist.ever.com/