The Draw of Sport
ISBN-13: 9781606999950
Author(s): Murray Olderman
Subjects: FXZ, XQA
Publisher: Fantagraphics
Publisher Imprint: Fantagraphics
Publication Date: 30-04-2017
Format: Hardback
Availability: In stock
£24.99
About the book
The sports cartoon flourished as an art form during the mid-20th century. Many metropolitan newspapers had their own cartoonists to decorate their sports sections, and feature syndicates employed the biggest stars. Murray Olderman is one of the last survivors of this vanished media species. But he was also different than most of his peers, in that he was trained as a journalist, and over the past 70 years, he wrote as often as he drew. The Draw of Sport compiles, in art and text, over 150 of Olderman's favourite personalities (of an estimated 6,000 potential subjects) from the sporting world.