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Noel Sickles, along with his lifelong friend, Milton Caniff, changed the face of comics in the 1930s, when they invented a new form of graphic storytelling. They moved away from the simple outline approach then popular, and created a chiaroscuro style that still influences comics artists today. Having blazed a trail through the comics world, Sickles left the medium in favor of a 40-year career as one of America's most successful magazine illustrators. A regular at Life magazine, his work also appeared inLook, Reader's Digest, National Geographic, and The Saturday Evening Post. A massive, comprehensive, oversized 392-page volume that collects, for the first time, every Sickles Scorchy Smith strip, from December 1933 through November 1936. It also features, in a 140-page biography, an extensive examination of Sickles's life and the decades-long influence of his work, while also showcasing the full breadth of his career as one of America's foremost magazine illustrators.… (more)
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When Sickles had gone through comic strips, and magazine and book illustration, and turned to painting pictures for galleries, the theme was still killing, in the genre named Western art. But let me end on a positive note: even if you already knew Sickles was a marvellous draughtsman, you'll still be astonished at the variety of his art in this book.