{"product_id":"the-complete-c-comics-hardcover","title":"The Complete C Comics - Hardcover","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eJoe Brainard\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eBill Kartalopoulos\u003c\/b\u003e (Contribution by), \u003cb\u003eRon Padgett\u003c\/b\u003e (Foreword by)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eIn the mid-1960s, legendary artist and writer Joe Brainard (\u003ci\u003eI Remember\u003c\/i\u003e) teamed with poets such as John Ashbery, Frank O'Hara, Barbara Guest, Ron Padgett, Kenneth Koch, Ted Berrigan, and many more for these pioneering collaborative comic strips--unavailable for decades and collected here for the first time.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"PEOPLE OF THE WORLD... RELAX!\" \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn the creative hotbed of 1960s New York, Joe Brainard was a whirlwind. He was a maker of paintings, assemblages, collages, book covers, poetry-reading flyers, and more. But some of his most exciting work was done with his friends. In 1964, the twenty-two-year-old Brainard turned his talents to rewiring the lowly comic book form into something new and surprising. He invited his friends Frank O'Hara, Ted Berrigan, John Ashbery, Kenneth Koch, Peter Schjeldahl, Barbara Guest, Ron Padgett, and others--all of them New York School poets--to collaborate with him on comics that they would write and he would draw. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe results were unlike any comics seen before. Previously available only on the rare-book market (at very high prices) but available here under one cover for the first time, the two issues of \u003ci\u003eC Comics\u003c\/i\u003e still feel as fresh as when the first page rolled off the mimeograph machine more than sixty years ago. Brainard's energetic line and joyful humor charge across every page, illustrating O'Hara's recasting of a cowboy as a mash-note-writing lover, Padgett's experiments with traditional cartoon sound effects (ROAR! GRRR! SKREE!), cameos by Ernie Bushmiller's Nancy, and heaps of Dadaesque delights. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThis edition includes a foreword from Padgett and an essay by comics historian Bill Kartalopolous, who details the creation (and creators) of \u003ci\u003eC Comics\u003c\/i\u003e. A masterpiece of collaboration and spontaneity, \u003ci\u003eC Comics\u003c\/i\u003e is a testament to the vastness of Brainard's creativity and his ability to push any artistic form in a new and powerful direction.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eJoe Brainard \u003c\/b\u003e(1942-1994) was a visual artist and writer. Among his books are the classic and widely loved \u003ci\u003eI Remember\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eCollected Writings\u003c\/i\u003e, and many shorter volumes. His paintings, assemblages, and collages are in many private and public collections, such as those of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Museum of Modern Art, and the Whitney Museum of American Art. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eBill Kartalopoulos\u003c\/b\u003e is a comics scholar, educator, curator, and editor. He is the Programming Director for the MoCCA Arts Festival and is a member of the organizing committee for the New York Comics \u0026amp; Picture-Story Symposium. He has worked as an assistant to Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist Art Spiegelman and as the Series Editor for the #1 \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e-bestselling \u003ci\u003eBest American Comics\u003c\/i\u003e series. He teaches graduate level courses about comics at Washington University in St. Louis, the School of Visual Arts in New York City, and the Université de Picardie Jules Verne in Amiens, France. He is currently finishing a book about comics, forthcoming from Princeton University Press. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eRon Padgett\u003c\/b\u003e is a poet, teacher, editor, and translator. He is the author of numerous books of poetry, including \u003ci\u003eGreat Balls of Fire\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eCollected Poems\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003ePink Dust\u003c\/i\u003e (NYRB Poets). He has translated the poetry of Guillaume Apollinaire (\u003ci\u003eZone: Selected Poems\u003c\/i\u003e) and Blaise Cendrars (\u003ci\u003eComplete Poems\u003c\/i\u003e), and has authored memoirs of Joe Brainard, Ted Berrigan, and Dick Gallup, and a biography of his father, Wayne Padgett.\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 200\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.9 x 13.9 x 8.6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e December 02, 2025\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47212162547961,"sku":"9781681379876","price":45.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0789\/2782\/3097\/files\/5jwOsbboqg9781681379876.webp?v=1768088170","url":"https:\/\/bookscloud.io\/products\/the-complete-c-comics-hardcover","provider":"BooksCloud Book Dropshipping","version":"1.0","type":"link"}