If you love newspaper comic strips, you will love my new book How Comics Were Made: A Visual History from the Drawing Board to the Printed Page. I’v

Glenn Fleishman interrogates the past

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If you love newspaper comic strips, you will love my new book How Comics Were Made: A Visual History from the Drawing Board to the Printed Page. I’ve combined years of research and the diligent collection of unique comics printing artifacts with dozens of interviews with cartoonists, historians, and production people to tell the story of how a comic starts with an artist’s hand and makes its way through transformations into print and, more recently, onto a digital screen. Add the ebook for just $10. (The ebook can be purchased separately, too, via this link.)

It features excerpts from interviews with Garry Trudeau, Lynn Johnston, Bill Watterson, Barbara Brandon-Croft, and many others, as well as never-before-seen installments and materials from Doonesbury, Peanuts, For Better or For Worse, and dozens and dozens of other cartoons. The book features a three-page foreword by Pulitzer Prize–winning author Michael Chabon. It includes a 14-page index.

The book is softcover with French flaps and has a full-color interior printed design as well. The $65 book ships to the United States for $12 ($77 total), Canada for $30 (US$95 total), and the European Union, United Kingdom, Switzerland, and Norway for $50 ($115 total). Due to my e-commerce site’s shipping options, the total book plus shipping price will add up correctly during checkout.