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Don't Ask! Just Buy It!--Douglas Wolk, Comics Alliance The early years of newspaper comics produced a handful of widely acknowledged masterworks, such as Little Nemo and Krazy Kat; this impressive [Polly and Her Pals] collection makes a convincing case that Sterrett's creation should be added to that honor roll. -- Gordon Flagg, Booklist Reading Polly and Her Pals gives one the same thrill that an archeologist must feel as he or she dusts off an antiquity: the thrill of discovery-the sense of origin-the knowledge that one is witnessing the birth of new artistic techniques rather than the tenth generation knockoffs of those techniques. -- Scott Katz, ustownhall This extraordinary volume, first in a series, is impressive in both content and sheer size. It's the same shape as the traditional newspaper comic page from its original era, making it humongous by current standards. At 12 x 16 , you'll need a table or other flat surface to enjoy it, and it's a wonderful feeling to be totally taken in by the color pages filling your entire field of vision and beyond. -- Johanna Draper Carlson, Comics Worth Reading A perfect coffee table book--not one that you would put on your coffee table...but one big enough to be used as a coffee table. -- J. Caleb Mozzocco, Newsarama -Don't Ask! Just Buy It!--Douglas Wolk, Comics Alliance -The early years of newspaper comics produced a handful of widely acknowledged masterworks, such as Little Nemo and Krazy Kat; this impressive [Polly and Her Pals] collection makes a convincing case that Sterrett's creation should be added to that honor roll.- -- Gordon Flagg, Booklist -Reading Polly and Her Pals gives one the same thrill that an archeologist must feel as he or she dusts off an antiquity: the thrill of discovery-the sense of origin-the knowledge that one is witnessing the birth of new artistic techniques rather than the tenth generation knockoffs of those techniques.- -- Scott Katz, ustownhall -This extraordinary volume, first in a series, is impressive in both content and sheer size. It's the same shape as the traditional newspaper comic page from its original era, making it humongous by current standards. At 12 x 16 , you'll need a table or other flat surface to enjoy it, and it's a wonderful feeling to be totally taken in by the color pages filling your entire field of vision and beyond.- -- Johanna Draper Carlson, Comics Worth Reading -A perfect coffee table book--not one that you would put on your coffee table...but one big enough to be used as a coffee table.- -- J. Caleb Mozzocco, Newsarama

-Don't Ask! Just Buy It!--Douglas Wolk, Comics Alliance -The early years of newspaper comics produced a handful of widely acknowledged masterworks, such as Little Nemo and Krazy Kat; this impressive [Polly and Her Pals] collection makes a convincing case that Sterrett's creation should be added to that honor roll.- -- Gordon Flagg, Booklist -Reading Polly and Her Pals gives one the same thrill that an archeologist must feel as he or she dusts off an antiquity: the thrill of discovery-the sense of origin-the knowledge that one is witnessing the birth of new artistic techniques rather than the tenth generation knockoffs of those techniques.- -- Scott Katz, ustownhall -This extraordinary volume, first in a series, is impressive in both content and sheer size. It's the same shape as the traditional newspaper comic page from its original era, making it humongous by current standards. At 12″ x 16″, you'll need a table or other flat surface to enjoy it, and it's a wonderful feeling to be totally taken in by the color pages filling your entire field of vision and beyond.- -- Johanna Draper Carlson, Comics Worth Reading -A perfect coffee table book--not one that you would put on your coffee table...but one big enough to be used as a coffee table.- -- J. Caleb Mozzocco, Newsarama

Don't Ask! Just Buy It!--Douglas Wolk, Comics Alliance The early years of newspaper comics produced a handful of widely acknowledged masterworks, such as Little Nemo and Krazy Kat; this impressive [Polly and Her Pals] collection makes a convincing case that Sterrett's creation should be added to that honor roll. -- Gordon Flagg, Booklist Reading Polly and Her Pals gives one the same thrill that an archeologist must feel as he or she dusts off an antiquity: the thrill of discovery-the sense of origin-the knowledge that one is witnessing the birth of new artistic techniques rather than the tenth generation knockoffs of those techniques. -- Scott Katz, ustownhall This extraordinary volume, first in a series, is impressive in both content and sheer size. It's the same shape as the traditional newspaper comic page from its original era, making it humongous by current standards. At 12″ x 16″, you'll need a table or other flat surface to enjoy it, and it's a wonderful feeling to be totally taken in by the color pages filling your entire field of vision and beyond. -- Johanna Draper Carlson, Comics Worth Reading A perfect coffee table book--not one that you would put on your coffee table...but one big enough to be used as a coffee table. -- J. Caleb Mozzocco, Newsarama

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Samuel Clifford Sterrett was born on December 12, 1883, in Fergus Falls, Minnesota. When he was eighteen, an Anglican minister became his patron and helped send the future cartoonist to the Chase School in New York. After two years of study, he was hired at the New York Herald, where he became friends with fellow comic strip pioneers such as Winsor McCay. Sterrett created several strips-includingVentriloquial VagandWhen A Man's Married-before inventingFor This Have We Daughters, which along with George McManus'sThe Newlyweds, founded a genre that would flourish for decades to come- the domestic situation comedy. Daughters is also the direct antecedent to his masterpiece,Polly and Her Pals, which began as a daily on December 4, 1912, and as a Sunday a year later. The strip continued until the 1950s.

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