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The art of Rube Goldberg : (A) inventive (B) cartoon (C) genius

Author: Jennifer GeorgeAndrew BaronAl JaffeeCarl LinichPeter MarescaAll authors
Publisher: New York : Abrams ComicArts, 2013.
Edition/Format:   Print book : Biography : EnglishView all editions and formats
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Examines the work of the cartoonist, humorist, sculptor, author, engineer, and inventor.
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Genre/Form: Biography
Criticism, interpretation, etc
Named Person: Rube Goldberg; Rube Goldberg; Rube Goldberg
Material Type: Biography
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Jennifer George; Andrew Baron; Al Jaffee; Carl Linich; Peter Maresca; Paul Tumey; Brian Walker; Geoff Spear; Rube Goldberg
ISBN: 9781419708527 141970852X
OCLC Number: 858825226
Notes: Cover includes pull-tab sequential action panel.
Description: 191 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 26 x 37 cm
Contents: Bringing Rube Goldberg's invention drawings to life / by Andrew Baron --
Introduction: The Goldberg variations / by Adam Gopnik --
Preface: No limp fish / by Jennifer George --
It happened to a Rube / by Brian Walker --
Say, are you reading a book? Rube Goldberg's Foolish Questions --
The Rube Goldberg animated cartoons of 1916 --
Out in a crowd: a contextual look at the comic strips of Rube Goldberg / by Peter Maresca --
The white rose heiress --
The weekly meeting of the Tuesday Ladies' club --
Restless storyteller: Rube Goldberg's comic strips of the 1920s and 1930s / by Paul Tumey --
OMG! Old man goldberg --
"Zuppie Snock Pleff Higgo," meaning, "An introduction to the world's greatest Siberian cheesehound" --
Device for reminding lazy cartoonist to write Rube Goldberg essay / by Al Jaffee --
Bibliography, sources, timeline --
Acknowledgements.
Other Titles: Rube Goldberg
Responsibility: selected by Jennifer George ; introduction by Adam Gopnik ; essays by Andrew Baron, Al Jaffee, Carl Linich, Peter Maresca, Paul Tumey, and Brian Walker ; cover paper engineering by Andrew Baron of Popyrus Studio, Inc. ; additional photography by Geoff Spear.

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Rube Goldberg was a cartoonist, humorist, sculptor, author, engineer and inventor, and in a 72-year career he illustrated a staggering 50,000 cartoons. The Art of Rube Goldberg is an overview of his  Read more...

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