Children of the Yellow Kid: The Evolution of the American Comic Strip Wandering Star and the L Magazine

and the L Magazine

Carol Kalish

5" prints are beautifully reproduced from the original art

and the then-unbuilt United Nations Headquarters

Smith and Walden Wong

Children of the Yellow Kid: The Evolution of the American Comic Strip Wandering Star and the L MagazineAn exhibition catalogue with 136 items described and illustrated. Traces the development of the comic strip since its birth at the turn of the century. The reproductions of vintage strips are strikingly pristine, due to the use of original artwork rather than published versions in the production of the volume. The author, a seasoned writer and scholar of the subject is good at historical and aesthetic discussion, less so at discussing the sociological