Add this copy of The Lexicon of Comicana to cart. $147.50, good condition, Sold by Salish Sea Books rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Bellingham, WA, UNITED STATES, published 2000 by iUniverse Publishing.
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Good++; Softcover; Covers are still glossy with a few light handling-marks; Unblemished textblock edges; The endpapers and all text pages are clean and unmarked; The binding is excellent with a straight spine; This book will be shipped in a sturdy cardboard box with foam padding; Large Format (Quatro, 10.75"-11.75" tall); 0.8 lbs; Light blue and green covers with title in red lettering; 2000, iUniverse Publishing; 108 pages; "The Lexicon of Comicana, " by Mort Walker.
Add this copy of The Lexicon of Comicana to cart. $247.50, very good condition, Sold by Salish Sea Books rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Bellingham, WA, UNITED STATES, published 2000 by iUniverse Publishing.
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Very Good+; Softcover; Covers are clean and glossy with a couple small scratches; Unblemished textblock edges; The endpapers and all text pages are clean and unmarked; The binding is excellent with a straight spine; This book will be shipped in a sturdy cardboard box with foam padding; Large Format (Quatro, 10.75"-11.75" tall); 0.8 lbs; Light blue and green covers with title in red lettering; 2000, iUniverse Publishing; 108 pages; "The Lexicon of Comicana, " by Mort Walker.
Add this copy of The Lexicon of Comicana to cart. $407.20, new condition, Sold by Just one more Chapter, ships from Miramar, FL, UNITED STATES, published 2000 by Backinprint. Com.
Mort Walker has not only been a print cartoonist for over half a century; his main strip, "Beetle Bailey," has been around for over half a century itself. This book started out as an extremely tongue-in-cheek presentation, and a parody of technical lectures and technical writing, but it quickly took on a life of its own, with the joking jargon Walker invented mostly out of thin air being quickly adopted as the accepted terms for things that never actually had names before.
This book is equal parts "how to," "how it works," and plain silliness. There is a whole section of step-by-step illustrations of how to draw various things, and while a very few of them would be at home in a typical art instruction book, most of them are patently (and very intentionally) absurd (e.g., "how to draw a beer" in 4 steps: 1. draw a beer mug; 2. add a hand holding it; 3. draw a keg with an open spigot over the mug; 4. a finished drawing of an overflowing mug of beer).
