Barnaby, Volume Three (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781606998236)

The long-lost comic strip masterpiece by legendary children's book author Crockett Johnson (Harold and the Purple Crayon, The Carrot Seed), collected in full and designed by graphic novelist and Barnaby superfan Daniel Clowes (Ghost World). Volume Three collects the postwar years of 1946-1947, continuing five-year-old Barnaby Baxter and his Fairy Godfather J.J. O'Malley's misadventures. Bumbling but endearing, Mr. O'Malley rarely gets his magic to work -- even when he consults his Fairy Godfather's Handy Pocket Guide. The true magic of Barnaby resides in its canny mix of fantasy and satire, amplified by the understated elegance of Crockett Johnson's clean, spare art. In its combination of Johnson's sly wit and O'Malley's amiable windbaggery, a child's feeling of wonder and an adults' wariness, highly literate jokes and a keen eye for the ridiculous, Barnaby expanded our sense of what comics can do. This volume also features essays by comics historians Nathalie op de Beeck and Coulton Waugh, as well as Johnson biographer Philip Nel.

Author: Crockett Johnson
ISBN-10: 1606998234
ISBN-13: 9781606998236
Publisher: Fantagraphics Books
Language: English
Published: 06/27/2016
Pages: 372
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 2.70lbs
Size: 6.80h x 10.70w x 1.30d

Review Citation(s):
Library Journal 09/15/2016 pg. 72