by Roy Crane; edited by Rick Norwood / Hardcover. / 316 pgs / PC / 9 x 9 With this volume of Buz Sawyer reprints from 1945 to 1947, creator Roy Crane really hit his stride. Adventure and, of course, romance follow Buz on his globe-spanning travels. This volume contains both daily strips plus more full color Sunday pages than our first Buz volume! A perfect combination of masterful cartooning and rip-roaring storytelling sure to please young and old alike. [(W/A/CA) Roy Crane]
This volume picks up where Book 3 left off and continues Roy Crane's classic strip through the end of the 1940s and into the 1950s - ten complete stories. And all of it is brought vividly to life through a rollicking series of adventures filled with knockout women, brutal assassins, and precarious situations. Also: Roy Crane's acceptance speech for the Banshee Silver Lady Award; letters of congratulation from Walt Disney, J. Edgar Hoover, and Richard Nixon; and rare illustrations of Crane's own trip to Europe in 1922.
by Roy Crane 10.5 x 14.75, HC, 160 pages, Full Color. Roy Crane is a GIANT among cartoonists and Fantagraphics is embarking upon an ambitious reprinting of his best work within CAPTAIN EASY, SOLDIER OF FORTURNE. Dig in and bask in the radiance of these FULL COLOR, prismatic Sunday strips! Discover with each page a buried treasure of adventure and chicanery replete with Crane's mastery of comics storytelling. Citing Crane's influence on comics, the artist Gil Kane once said, "Superman was Captain Easy; Batman was Captain Easy." BEWARE! Beautiful women! Pirates! Sunken ships! And fun! fun! FUN! are barely contained within this beautiful package brought to you by Fantagraphics, the torchbearer of quality when it comes to classic comic strip reprints.
The third volume in Fantagraphics' ongoing reprint of Roy Crane's legendary actioncomedy comic strip features what many consider the absolute peak of the series: "Temple of the Swinks." This, plus other rollicking stories of high adventure featuring (inevitably) pirates and (just as inevitably) beautiful women, all set in exotic locales, makes this latest volume a worthy addition to this popular series. [(W/A/CA) Roy Crane]
The fourth and final volume of Fantagraphics' popular Captain Easy series features lost cities, beautiful native girls and more heart-pounding exploits. Roy Crane's intrepid adventurer goes out with a bang and his adventures are presented, as ever, in glorious full-color with essays and other scholarly extras. [by Roy Crane; edited by Rick Norwood]
Following our Eisner Award-nominated series of Captain Easy Sunday strip collections, we have selected the very best of the daily comic strip adventures of Easy and Wash Tubbs. Featuring Wash running a railroad in a comic-opera version of Eastern Europe, Easy waging total war against The Phantom King, battles with pirates and our heroes as prisoners on the infamous Devil's Island. Roy Crane mixes imagination, romance, and thrills in a masterful style that entices you always to the next thrill-packed adventure! Edited by Rick Norwood.
