The Collected Doug Wright: Volume One: Canadas Master Cartoonist

A careerspanning retrospective of one of the masters of North American cartooningThe first of a historic twovolume set, The Collected Doug Wright: Canadas Master Cartoonist presents the firstever comprehensive look at the life and career of one of the mostread and bestloved cartoonists of the 1960s. Compiled in cooperation with Doug Wrights family, it draws from thousands of pieces of art, pictures, letters, and the artists own journals to provide a fully rounded view of Wright, both as a cartoonist and as an individual.Volume One follows the artistic development of the Britishborn cartoonist from his earliest unpublished work to the first days of his most enduring comic strip, Nipper. First published in 1949, a full year before the debut of Peanuts, this wordless strip perfectly captured the humorousand frustratingside of parenting for several generations of both young and old. Remembered by many for Wrights cartoon childrens striped shirts and bald heads, Nipper quickly grew into a Canadian phenomenon.Designed by the acclaimed cartoonist and Peanuts designer Seth and featuring a biographical essay by the writer Brad Mackay, this lavish hardcover collection gives Wrights career the recognition it has long been due. The introduction is by one of the most famous working cartoonists today, Lynn Johnston of the syndicated heavyweight comic strip For Better or For Worse.I dont think Id have had the basics needed to do a syndicated comic strip had it not been for Doug Wright (Lynn Johnston, from the introduction).