num_pages: 391
description: Noel Sickles along with his lifelong friend Milton Caniff changed the face of comics in the 1930s when they invented a new form of graphic storytelling. They moved away from the simple outline approach then popular and created a chiaroscuro style that still influences comics artists today. Having blazed a trail through the comics world Sickles left the medium in favor of a 40-year career as one of America's most successful magazine illustrators. A regular at Life magazine his work also appeared in Look Reader's Digest National Geographic and The Saturday Evening Post.A massive comprehensive oversized 392-page volume that collects for the first time every Sickles Scorchy Smith strip from December 1933 through November 1936. It also features in a 140-page biography an extensive examination of Sickles's life and the decades-long influence of his work while also showcasing the full breadth of his career as one of America's foremost magazine illustrators.
language: English
title: Scorchy Smith And The Art Of Noel Sickles
publisher: IDW Publishing