Golf In the Comic Strips: A Historic Collection of Classic Cartoons
Golf in the Comic Strips: A Historic Collection of Classic Cartoons Howard Ziehm Endorsed with a "fore"word by avid golfer and entertainer Bob Hope
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As one of the oldest and greatest sports of all time, golf has been the subject of a wealth of humorous depictions. No other sport has been more parodied, satirized, or used as a setting than golf. Golf in the Comic Strips uses the perceptive minds of the world's foremost cartoonists to capture the wild and woolly, the mysterious and rewarding allure of golf-what it does to its players and what it leaves them in return. Each strip is unique and will leave the golfer and the non-golfer with an extra appreciation for the game, as well as some howls of laughter at the folly of it all. From his collection of over 4,000 cartoons and comic strips on golf, Howard Ziehm shares over 200 beautiful, full-color, rare, and historic comic strips from more than 100 artists. Interwoven is insightful text explaining stylistic innovations, milestones, and artist- or period-related information giving you a sense of what golf and the world was like in each era.Including artists like Clare Briggs (A Piker's Clerk), Sidney Smith (The Gumps), Richard Outcault (The Yellow Kid), James Swinnerton (Jimmy), Charles Schulz (Peanuts), Johnny Hart (B.C.), and Mort Walker (Beetle Bailey), Golf in the Comic Strips is an essential for all golf lovers, cartoon fans, and humor buffs.
Introduction\ In the mid-1890s, a new art form began to emerge. It was spearheaded by artists like Richard F. Outcault, James Swinnerton and Rudolph Dirks, and two publishers, Joseph Pulitzer and William Randolph Hearst. This new art form would become known as the comic strip. At the same time, another craze was also capturing the eye of the country. It was an import from the shores of Scotland and was known as golf. In one of his earliest works, Outcault, then working for Hearst on the New York Journal American, did a series of panels with dialogue titled The Yellow Kid Takes a Hand at Golf.\ When the Yellow Kid took his glorious swing in the last panel of that work, he was to inaugurate a remarkable 100-year relationship between golf and the comic strips. No other subject has been more parodied, satirized or used as a setting than golf. In the fourteen years that I have been collecting from the pages of American newspapers what I now call Golftoons, I have assembled over 4,000 comic strips and cartoons on golf. Nearly every cartoonist who put pen to paper has found the subject of golf to be inspirational, whether it be to express joy or sarcasm.
