The Comic Art Show: Cartoons in Painting and Popular Culture #[nn]

Catalogue companion to the Whitney Museum's 1983 exhibition "The Comic Art Show." Includes sample artwork from various artists including George Herriman, Winsor McCay, Jack Kirby, Cliff Sterrett, Budd Fisher, George McManus, Frank King, Chester Gould, Milt Caniff, Harvey Kurtzman, Robert Crumb and many more.

Cover is a Andy Warhol painting of Dick Tracy.

Includes the following essays: In Praise of Folly: The Early Development of Comics in Art by John Carlin; The Golden Age: Origins and Early Masters by Rick Marschall; Mass Appeal: The Development of Realism, Sequential Narrative and Social Satire by Jerry Robinson; Representing Force: From Superman to the Fantastic Four by John Carlin and Gary Groth; Nothing is Sacred: From EC to Underground Comix by John Carlin and Kim Thompson; More Vulgar Modernism by J. Hoberman; Beyond the Pleasure Principle: Comic Quotation in Contemporary American Painting by John Carlin and Sheena Wagstaff

On-sale date from The Comics Journal #83 (August 1983)