Research Catalog

Title

Tijuana bibles : art and wit in America's forbidden funnies, 1930s-1950s / [compiled by] Bob Adelman ; introductory essay by Art Spiegelman ; commentary by Richard Merkin ; essay by Madeline Kripke ; [photography, Bob Adelman and Michael Macioce].

Publication

New York : Simon & Schuster Editions, 1997.

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Holdings

Details

Additional Authors

• Adelman, Bob
• Merkin, Richard

Description

160 p. : ill.; 24 x 30 cm.

Summary

A collection from risque comic books of the 1930s, 1940, and 1950s that poke erotic run at the celebrities and issues of the day.

Subject

• Geschichte 1930-1960
• Underground comic books, strips, etc. > United States
• Erotic comic books, strips, etc. > United States

Genre/Form

• Erotic comics
• Anthologies – U.S.A. – 1997.
• Comic books – U.S.A. – 1930-1959 – Reprints.
• Comics (documents – U.S.A. – 1997.
• Erotic comics (documents – U.S.A. – 1930-1959 – Reprints.

Note

• "A Bob Adelman book"--T.p. verso.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Introductory Essay: Those Dirty Little Comics / Art Spiegelman -- The Lingo of the Tijuana Bibles / Madeline Kripke -- Commentary / Richard Merkin -- See You in the Funny Pages! -- Our Fellow Americans: Heebs, Wops, Traveling Salesmen, and the Farmer's Daughter -- There's no Bizness Like Show Bizness! -- Gun Molls, Heavyweights, and Assorted Tyrants -- Odds 'n' Ends: or, Hot Nuts and Wild Gooses -- The Wide Stylistic Range of the Tijuana Bibles / Richard Merkin -- Talking Dirty: The Vocabulary of the Tijuana Bibles / Madeline Kripke -- Those Naughty End Pages / Richard Merkin -- Bibliography / Madeline Kripke.

ISBN

0684834618

LCCN

^^^97030672^

OCLC

• 37369110
• SCSB-11267493

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library