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| When it comes to newspaper strips, he's written several... The latest addition to my library is his 1996 book 100 Years of American Newspaper Comics... 
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| I have owned a copy of this for the last 30 years... 
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I've owned that one a long time also... I see it's been expanded into several volumes now as well... The other one I own is his study of comics around the world based on the American West... 
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I believe I also have his "Women In Comics" book around somewhere... 
Interesting bit on Mr. Horn...  | 
|   | | | Maurice Horn | | | Advisory Board | | | | | Maurice Horn is an internationally recognized authority on comics and cartoons. He was co-organizer of the first exhibition held at a major museum, "Bande Dessinée at Figuration Narrative," at the Louvre in Paris. He also organized the exhibition "75 Years of the Comics" at the New York Cultural Center. He has lectured on comics and cartoons at universities worldwide, and his European series of lectures in 1973-74 was printed in Information et Documents, the official publication of the American Center in Paris. He has written hundreds of articles on the subject for American and foreign magazines and has contributed to Collier's Encyclopedia, Oxford University Press' American National Biography, and to The International Encyclopedia of Communication, as well as to Microsoft's on-line Encarta Encyclopedia. He has edited a number of reprints of classic American and European comic strips, and has received many awards and honors in the field. Many of the books he has authored or edited have become standard reference works in their field. He is the editor of The World Encyclopedia of Comics (2nd ed., 1998) and The World Encyclopedia of Cartoons (2nd ed. 1999). In addition he has edited 100 Years of American Newspaper Comics and the multi-volume Contemporary Graphic Artists. He is co-author of A History of the Comic Strip and author of 75 Years of the Comics, Women in the Comics (2n ed. 2001), and Comics of the American West. Maurice Horn has been with WittyWorld since 1987. |
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| And here's Vol 1 of his new multi-volume work... 
...which I do not have as of yet...
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| I always thought the work of Maurice was head and shoulders above most American comics historians (Coulton Waugh side). Earl.
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Earl Davis (11/12/2009)
I have owned a copy of this for the last 30 years...

I own this too but never really cared for it.
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