The spiritual ancestor to Peanuts, Calvin and Hobbes, and
almost every other kid strip ever created continues through the
Depression, under threatening European war.
This fourth volume collects the complete daily strips from 1934-1936, at
the height of Crosby's one-man political and social crusade. Crosby
influenced cartoonists from Charles Schulz to Walt Kelly to Garry
Trudeau, and, perhaps more than any other cartoonist before him, brought
philosophy and politics to the American newspaper comic strip. In the
end, it would be his outspoken political and philosophical beliefs that
would place him increasingly outside the mainstream of 1940s American
culture, ultimately leading to his exile from comics and his forced
incarceration in a mental institution for the last sixteen years of his
life. As a result of his tragic end, Crosby's remarkable contributions
to American culture have been largely eclipsed, until now. Bonus
materials include many photographs and rare artwork from the collection
of the cartoonist's daughter, Joan Crosby Tibbetts.