American Update: Retrospectives and Histories – B. Krigstein and Comic Art Propaganda
*Magazines/Books About Vintage US Comics: Two different historical tomes for your consideration this week. Comics artist Greg Sadowksi produced ‘B. Krigstein’ in 2002 for Fantagraphics Books, a tribute to, and appreciation of, one of Sadowkski’s own artistic heroes, the iconic Artist Bernie Krigstein, illustrator of ‘Master Race’ for EC as well as many other acclaimed stories. This first volume runs from 1919 to 1955, a handsome and lavishly-illustrated hardcover, VF £25. In 2010, the UK’s ILEX publishers issued ‘Comic Art Propaganda’ by Fredrik Stromburg, a compendium of the way the comics art has been used to inform, and deform, the minds of people over the decades. This full-colour hardcover with dustjacket is VF £20.