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FELDSTEINlong-overdue look at the entire remarkable career of this legendary artist,writer, and editor. Both a full biography and a coffee-table art book, we beginwith the earliest surviving Feldstein artwork from the High School of Music andArt, present his very earliest comic book work, and follow his development fromthe 1940s Victor Fox shop (including the titillating "headlight" comicsJunior, Sunny, and Meet Corliss Archer). And we examine hishighly visceral work for the classic E.C. comic book line. Along with rare and previously unpublished photographs, the book picturesevery E.C. Feldstein comic book cover (many placed alongside the originalartwork), presents several complete E.C. stories, plus nearly every splash pageand house ad Feldstein did for E.C. We trace his thirty-year career as theeditor of MAD, and present his post-retirement work as a "fine" artist,including his prize-winning Western canvases and his many commissioned paintings"revisiting" his classic cover images from the 1950s. We examine every aspect ofFeldstein's long career and fascinating personal life, not all of it sweetnessand light.
