What Fools These Mortals Be: The Story of Puck by Michael Alexander Kahn

By: Michael Alexander Kahn

Genre: Graphic Novel

Idea & Design Works, LLC
October 1, 2014
On Sale: October 7, 2014
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ISBN: 1631400460
EAN: 9781631400469
Hardcover

Book Summary

A lavish coffee table book devoted to the most important political satire and cartoon magazine in American history. Published from 1877 to 1918, Puck was regularly a major political battleground and is credited with single-handedly thwarting the third-term ambitions of Ulysses Grant in 1880 and electing Grover Cleveland to the presidency in 1884.

Puck did it with art - lavish, color, full-page and two-page centerspread cartoons. It was the first American magazine to publish color lithographs on a weekly basis and, for nearly forty years, was a training ground and showcase for some of the country's most talented cartoonists, led by its co-founder, Joseph Keppler.

This retrospective contains nearly 300 full-color plates.