John Stanley: Giving Life to Little Lulu

This is a deluxe, full-color, coffee table book biography; the first of one of America's greatest storytellers. It's filled with beautifully reproduced artwork from the comic books Little Lulu, and his creations Melvin Monster and Thirteen(Going on Eighteen); rare drawings and cartoons; and never-before-seen photographs. Bill Schelly tells Stanley's life story through interviews with his family, friends, and colleagues: his childhood in Harlem and the Bronx, life with his strict Irish Catholic mother, his education at Parsons, his first job as an animator at Max Fleischer Studios, and his years working as a commercial artist, before finding his true métier in comic books during World War II (while battling clinical depression and alcoholism).

Binding Type: Hardcover
Publisher: Fantagraphics Books
Published: 05/30/2017
ISBN: 9781606999905
Pages: 240
Weight: 2.85lbs
Size: 13.30h x 10.30w x 0.80d

Review Citations: Publishers Weekly 06/19/2017
Booklist 07/01/2017 pg. 37