Before there was Robert Crumb, there was Herbert Crowley. If you don't
recognize that name, you're not alone. Crowley is one of nearly 30
American cartoonists featured in this eclectic anthology, artists whose
work--created between 1900 and 1969--was overshadowed by more successful
contemporaries. Art Out of Time at last gives these pioneers the
showcase they deserve, reprinting--in most cases for the first time
since their initial publication--complete comic books and strips by such
visionaries as Raymond Ewer, Howard Nostrand, Ogden Whitney, and Dick
Briefer. These under-recognized artists often deviated from the thematic
and graphic conventions of the comics medium--and influenced Crumb, Art
Spiegelman, and others--making this superb anthology a true "counter
history," the untold story of an underground that wasn't.
