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Norman Pettingill : Backwoods Humorist by Gary Groth and Fantagraphics Staff (2010, Hardcover)

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Norman Pettingill was an avid trapper and fisherman from Northern Wisconsin, and a self-taught artist. In 1947, at the age of 51, he created hundreds of pen-and-ink drawings and marketed many of them as postcards, printing and distributing them himself. His cartoon drawings were relatively huge and his postcards, therefore, had to be uniquely over-sized at 7" x 10". He combined a gift for the fine detail and verisimilitude of illustration with the visual exaggeration and outrageous wit of cartooning. By merging his fascination with nature and backwoods culture with his wild sense of humor, he depicted an out-of¬control hillbilly wonderland of talking grizzlies, dancing morons, nightclubs, giant mosquitoes, tumble-down shacks, pipe smoking grannies, flying skunk fur, google-eyed drunks, hilarious hunting mishaps and moonshine soaked fishermen Pettingill's world is reminiscent of Al Capp's Li'l Abner comic strip, but Pettingill's hillbilly heaven is made grittier and more tangible by his obsessive penwork and the attention he gives to each teetering outhouse, every overflowing spittoon and each wiry hair growing out of a mountain man's warty face. He reveled in exposing the commercialization of outdoor activities, debunking the romance of a woodsman's life, and de-mythologizing the expertise of the outdoors-man. His landscapes and drawings of wild animals could be breathtakingly wondrous, and even his most grotesque depictions of hillbillies were fused with a love and respect for the rituals of a primitive life in the boondocks. This book is the first published retrospective of Pettingill's work, containing over a hundred of the artist's best and rarely seen drawings, printed in an oversized format.

Product Identifiers

Publisher
Fantagraphics Books
ISBN-10
1606993194
ISBN-13
9781606993194
eBay Product ID (ePID)
102906803

Product Key Features

Book Title
Norman Pettingill : Backwoods Humorist
Author
Gary Groth, Fantagraphics Staff
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Topic
Individual Artists / General, Outdoor Skills, Form / Comic Strips & Cartoons
Publication Year
2010
Genre
Art, Sports & Recreation, Humor
Number of Pages
144 Pages

Dimensions

Item Length
12in
Item Height
1in
Item Width
9in
Item Weight
42.5 Oz

Additional Product Features

Lc Classification Number
Pn6727
Copyright Date
2010
Afterword by
Ryan, Johnny
Dewey Decimal
741.5973
Intended Audience
Trade
Dewey Edition
22
Illustrated
Yes

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