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Willard Mullin's Golden
Age Of Baseball
Drawings 1934-1972 |
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Item Details |
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CIRCA -
2013
PUBLISHER
- Fantagraphics
Books, Inc.
FORMAT
- Hardcover
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GENRE
- Radio, Baseball
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SIZE
- 9.25" x
12.25" (240 pages)
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PRICE GUIDE- $15.00-$20.00
Very Good -
Excellent Condition
Information
Provided by:
Keymancollectibles.com
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Willard Mullin was a sports
cartoonist, most famous for his
creation of the "Brooklyn Bum" the
personification of the Brooklyn Dodgers
baseball team. Mullin was often
commissioned to draw cover
illustrations for yearbooks of the
Brooklyn Dodgers, New York Giants, and
the New York Mets. He was widely
syndicated, with his cartoons appearing
daily in the New York World Telegram &
Sun, in addition to numerous other
papers of the Scripps-Howard chain, and
in The Sporting News.
Willard Mullin's Golden Age of Baseball: Drawings 1934-1972 by Willard
Mullin; edited by Hal Bock and Michael
Powers. Published by Fantagraphics
Books in 2013.
In Fantagraphics' ceaseless effort to rediscover every world-class
cartoonist in the history of the
medium, we turn your attention to a
neglected part of the art form-sports
cartooning-and to its greatest
practitioner-Willard Mullin. The years
1930-1970 were the Golden Age of both
American sports and American comic
strips, when giants strode their
respective fields-Babe Ruth, Lou
Gehrig, and Hank Aaron in one, George (Krazy
Kat) Herriman, Milton (Steve Canyon)
Caniff, Walt (Pogo) Kelly in the
other-and Mullin was there, straddling
both fields, recording every major
player and event in the
mid-20th-century history of baseball.
Mullin was to baseball players what Bill Mauldin was to soldiers: advocate
and critic, investing them with
personality, humanity, dignity, and
poignancy; Mauldin had Willie & Joe and
Mullin had the Brooklyn Bum, his
affectionate 1939 character
representing the bedraggled figure of
the Brooklyn Dodgers. Willard Mullin's
Golden Age of Baseball: Drawings
1934-1972 collects for the first time
Mullin's best drawings devoted to
baseball-depictions of players like Joe
DiMaggio, Ted Williams, Yogi Berra, and
Sandy Koufax, legendary managers like
Casey Stengel and George Steinbrenner,
and events like Lou Gehrig's emotional
retirement speech on July 4, 1939, for
which Mullin not only drew a portrait
but composed a poem (which he often
incorporated into his cartoons).
Mullin's fluid line and delicate but vigorous brushwork are shown to
beautiful effect, with many drawings
reproduced from original art. See why
millions of baseball fans from the '30s
to the '70s looked forward to Mullin's
cartoons in their daily paper. Mullins
was voted Sports Cartoonist of the
Century upon his retirement by his
peers, and his legacy has been summed
up by New Yorker cartoonist Bob Staake,
who wrote, Mullin defined the modern
sports cartoon by combining
representative portraiture, cartoonish
doodlery, and editorial commentary-part
news account, part personal
observation, his cartoons celebrated
sport for its entertainment, cultural,
and artistic value.
Below is Willard Mullin's iconic image from the 1952 Brooklyn Dodgers
Yearbook; it is an homage to one of
Mullin's mentors James Montgomery
Flagg, who drew the equally iconic
"Uncle Sam Wants You"!
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Willard Mullin's
Golden Age Of Baseball Drawings
1934-1972 |
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Back Cover |
1952 Brooklyn Dodgers
Yearbook Art |
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