The Blighted Eye: Original Comic Art From the Glenn Bray Collection

The Blighted Eye is the most copious, the most diverse, and the most lavish compilation of original comic art ever published all from the mind-boggling collection of Glenn Bray. Bray was an enthusiast of marginal or outsider American pop culture when he started to collect original comic art in 1965 a time when very few people, including the artists themselves, truly valued the original art. Bray has, over the last nearly 50 years, amassed the most eclectic collection of original comic art in private hands. The book features work by a pantheon of cartooning masters, including Charles Addams, Carl Barks, Charles Burns, Al Capp, Dan Clowes, Jack Cole, R. Crumb, Jack Davis, Kim Deitch, Will Elder, Al Feldstein, Virgil Finlay, Drew Friedman, Chester Gould, Justin Green, Rick Griffin, Bill Griffith, Matt Groening, George Grosz, V.T. Hamlin, Jaime Hernandez, George Herriman, Al Hirshfeld, Graham Ingels, Bernard Krigstein, Harvey Kurtzman, Gary Panter, Virgil Partch, Savage Pencil, Peter Pontiac, Charles Rodrigues, Spain Rodriguez, Charles Schulz, Gilbert Shelton, Joost Swarte, Stanislav Szukalski, Irving Tripp, Chris Ware, S. Clay Wilson, Basil Wolverton, Wallace Wood, Jim Woodring, Art Young, and it should go without saying many more. Public exhibitions of original comics art has proliferated over the last decade with such shows as Masters of American Comics at LA s Hammer Museum and R. Crumb s Underground at Seattle s Frye Museum. Readers have been able to see this original art in museum catalogues and the occasional compilation of work digitally scanned directly from the original art. Although drawn for print, the hand-crafted original art brush strokes and pen lines inked on paper offers a beauty and an unique insight into the form, a different way of perceiving the artist s work."

• Author
• Glenn Bray, Charles Addams, Rick Altergott, Boris Artzybasheff, Carl Barks, Hans Bellmer, Mark Beyer, Charles Burns, Ernesto Cabral, Al Capp, Serge Clerc, Daniel Clowes, Jack Cole, Coop, Robert Crumb, Jack Davis, Kim Deitch, Gustave Doré, Pascal Doury, Bill Elder, Al Feldstein, Virgil Finlay, Drew Friedman, Ernst Fuchs, Evert Geradts, Justin Green, Rick Griffin, Rory Hayes, Russ Heath, Jaime Hernández, George Herriman, Ryan Heshka, Bill Holman, Graham Engels, Ota Keiti, Bernard Krigstein, Harvey Kurtzman, Travis Louie, Jay Lynch, Mike Mignola, Gary Panter, Virgil Franklin Partch, Savage Pencil, Norman Pettingill, Peter Pontiac, Bruno Richard, Johnny Ryan, Bud Sagendorf, Jim Shaw, Gilbert Shelton, Marc Smeets, Otto Soglow, Spain Rodriguez, Cliff Sterrett, Joost Swarte, Stanisław Szukalski, Jeffrey Vallance, Bob Van Den Born, Vica, Bill Ward, Chris Ware, Byron Werner, Robert Williams, Skip Williamson, Karl Wills, S. Clay Wilson, Basil Wolverton, Wallace Wood, Jim Woodring, XNO, Art Young, Bob Zoell, Todd Hignite, Doug Harvey

• Format
• hardcover

• Pages
• 416

• Publisher
• Fantagraphics

• Language
• english

• ISBN
• 9781606996959

• Genres
• comics, art

• Release date
• 2014