Joys and Glooms: Edition 1912, A Book of drawings

by Thomas Powers, Comic Books Restore (Editor)

Overview

Discover a classic old comic strip published in 1912 with drawings by the famous illustrator Thomas E. Powers.

Joys and Glooms, a classic with a filiform drawing line that has never been equalled.

T. E. Powers was an early American newspaper comic artist, and the first known American to draw a newspaper color comic strip. Born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, he moved to Kansas City, where he was educated in public schools and got his start working for a lithographer. Powers later worked for the Chicago Herald and in 1894 was offered a job in New York with the Evening World. By 1896 he and his colleague Arthur Brisbane found employment with the New York Evening World of tycoon

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9798881188092
Publisher:	Barnes & Noble Press
Publication date:	05/09/2024
Pages:	66
Product dimensions:	8.00(w) x 10.00(h) x 0.14(d)

About the Author

T. E. Powers was an early American newspaper comic artist, and the first known American to draw a newspaper color comic strip. Born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, he moved to Kansas City, where he was educated in public schools and got his start working for a lithographer. Powers later worked for the Chicago Herald and in 1894 was offered a job in New York with the Evening World. By 1896 he and his colleague Arthur Brisbane found employment with the New York Evening World of tycoon