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Skippy is waiting to see what his new publisher has in store for him, and thinking up new adventures with his pals.
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 "Percy Crosby caught lightning in a bottle and learned how to draw with it," wrote Jules Feiffer in a 1978 appreciation. Milton Caniff marveled, "Boy, there's nothing faster than watching Skippy run the way Crosby drew him." Crosby was heralded as "the greatest apostle of motion in the field of art" by Edward Alden Jewell, art critic of the New York Times. His artwork has hung in the Louvre in Paris, the Corcoran Gallery in Washington, and the Tate Gallery in London, among other venues, but it's his work as a cartoonist, as the creator of Skippy—the philosopher man-child—for which he's best known.
Skippy debuted as a daily newspaper strip in 1925 and as a Sunday the following year. and soon became a sensation, published in 28 countries and 14 languages. Crosby continued writing and drawing the feature until 1945. Today we see Skippy as the spiritual ancestor to Peanuts and Calvin and Hobbes, among many other kid strips. Percy Crosby influenced cartoonists from Charles Schulz to Walt Kelly to Garry Trudeau.
This series, produced in cooperation with Skippy Inc. and the Crosby estate, reprints the complete legendary series for the first time. |
 Coming Soon
Skippy Vol. 1: Complete Dailies 1925-1927
by Percy Crosby
Edited by Jared Gardner and Dean Mullaney, Designed by Lorraine Turner, Biographical essay by Jared Gardner
Coming Summer 2012: Our premiere volume includes every daily strip from the beginning—June 22, 1925 through the end of 1927—as well as the start of an extensive, ongoing biography of Percy Crosby by Jared Gardner, and is illustrated with a great many photographs and rare artwork from the collection of the cartoonist's daughter, Joan Crosby Tibbetts.
9.5" x 8.5" hardcover-with-dustjacket, with index, $49.99.
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PRESS RELEASE 12.6.11
“He Caught Lightning in a Bottle and Learned How to Draw with It”
IDW and the Library of American Comics announce
The Complete Skippy by Percy Crosby |
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