Meanwhile: A Biography of Milton Caniff, Creator of Terry and the Pirates and Steve Canyon
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| Rating | : | 4.62 (858 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1560977825 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 952 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-02-25 |
| Language | : | English |
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From Booklist In the 1930s and 1940s, the newspaper comic strip was one of the nation's most popular storytelling media, and Caniff's exotic high-adventure Terry and the Pirates and Steve Canyon were among the most widely read strips. Comics scholar Harvey, who worked on this biography for nearly 25 years, had the benefit of extensively interviewing Caniff, and the wealth of firsthand information he obtained and conveys helps explain why it weighs in at just short of 1,000 pages, which may strike some as excessive but, given Caniff's towering stature in the comics field, seems only appropriate, perhaps even necessary. The popularity of the China-based Terry skyrocketed in the early forties, when its cast entered World War
Definitive to say the very least Christopher Barat This meaty slab of a book consumed a great deal of my attention over the course of two recent weeks. It doesn't usually take me that long to finish a reading job, but this one deserved the extra attention, for which all credit is due to R.C. Harvey, the respected comics scholar who labored over it for such a long time. Caniff, creator of TERRY AND THE PIRATES and STEVE CANYON and the acknowledged grand master of the now-all-but-defunct continuity adventure strip, deserved a big, sprawling biography detailing. Milt Caniff bio G. Brennan This is the definitive history of Milton Caniff's life as one of the greatest contributors to the art of the comics. It is well-written & complete in detail.. "MeanwhileInside the life, times, and genius of Milton Caniff" according to Rodney L. Young Jr.. First, some truth in reviewing. I have known Bob Harvey since we worked together on our college newspaper, and I have long admired his writing skills. We correspond occasionally, and see each other about every two years. And yes, I paid for my copy of Meanwhile That said, Harvey has written a fine, highly readable book, and a great one for anyone interested in comic strips and particularly Caniff's great creations, Terry and the Pirates and Steve Canyon. Indeed, you can think of Meanwhile as two books in one
The comprehensive biography of one of the 20th century's most influential cartoonists, the legendary creator of Steve Canyon and Terry and the Pirates. Caniff reshaped the medium and set standards by which all storytelling strips were subsequently judged. He went on to create Steve Canyon, which was syndicated from 1947 to Caniff's death in 1988.Meanwhile traces Caniff's life from the cradle to the grave, examining the artistic innovations and work routines of a nationally distributed cartoonist whose career was central to the development of the art form, and marking the milestones in the development of the comic strip that Caniff established. Air Force from the Korean War until the end of the strip in 1988) when the same brand of patriotism that had inspired admiration during World War II provoked protest during Vietnam, a bittersweet conclusion to a career spent producing a daily feature for 55 years, a record that would stand for a generation. He rose to prominence during World War II when he took the characters in his Terry and the Pirate