Top Hats and Flappers: The Art of Russell Patterson South American Comics in English Virgile Gautrey

Virgile Gautrey

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This deluxe edition was limited to 1000 numbered copies signed by the artist and is long out of print

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Top Hats and Flappers: The Art of Russell Patterson South American Comics in English Virgile GautreyOver 200 illustrations compiled by co editor Shane Glines. The long biographical essay is by our pal, Armando Mendez. Out of print. From the publisher: Imagine America in the 1920s, a time of tremendous social change and the last stand of the Golden Age of Illustration. As nationally known illustrators Charles Dana Gibson, James Montgomery Flagg and J. C. Leyendecker upheld the old school tradition of a polished and fully rendered romanticism, the