{"product_id":"king-of-the-comics-one-hundred-years-of-king-features-syndicate-isbn-9781684053391","title":"King of the Comics: One Hundred Years of King Features Syndicate","description":"Krazy Kat! Popeye! Flash Gordon! Beetle Bailey! Blondie! Prince Valiant! Hagar the Horrible! Barney Google and Snuffy Smith! Baby Blues! Mutt \u0026amp; Jeff! Zits! Juliet Jones! Buz Sawyer! Steve Canyon! Bizarro! Hi \u0026amp; Lois! Maggie \u0026amp; Jiggs! Johnny Hazard! There are simply too many to list because King Features has had a more illustrious and long-lasting history than any newspaper syndicate, even as it continues to lead the way into the digital age and beyond.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis book is a centennial birthday bash hosted by Dean Mullaney, Bruce Canwell, and Brian Walker, with contributions by Brendan Burford, Lucy Shelton Caswell, Jared Gardner, Ron Goulart, Jeffrey Lindenblatt, Carl Linich, Paul Tumey, and Germund von Wowern. More than just comics, it’s a celebration of the profound impact that King Features has had on popular culture!\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFrom the earliest days when William Randolph Hearst first added cartoons to his newspapers, comic strips have had a profound impact on popular culture. With the consolidation of Hearst’s various distribution channels in November 1915, King Features was born. A century later the world’s largest syndicate leads the way in the 21st Century and beyond. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNOMINATED FOR TWO 2016 EISNER AWARDS: BEST COMICS-RELATED BOOK and BEST PUBLICATION DESIGN | \"\u003ci\u003eKing of the Comics: One Hundred Years of King Features Syndicate\u003c\/i\u003e combines a historian’s love of the art form with a fan’s love of the strips themselves.\" –Mark Squirek, \u003ci\u003eNew York Journal of Book\u003c\/i\u003e | \u003cb\u003eDean Mullaney\u003c\/b\u003e created The Library of American Comics in 2007. He has been an influential force in the comics field since 1978, when he published \u003ci\u003eSabre\u003c\/i\u003e, the first graphic novel for the comics specialty market. His pioneering efforts, as founder and publisher of Eclipse Comics, brought many milestones to the field, including creator copyright ownership, the first line of Japanese manga in English translation (in 1988), and the first digitally-colored comic book. He was inducted in the Overstreet Hall of Fame in 2011. Dean lives in Florida with his wife Lorraine Turner.","brand":"Library of American Comics","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46302285627621,"sku":"NP9781684053391","price":39.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9781684053391.jpg?v=1767730754","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/king-of-the-comics-one-hundred-years-of-king-features-syndicate-isbn-9781684053391","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}