Arf Forum

by Craig Yoe

edited by Craig Yoe
The third volume of the popular Arf series, Arf Forum runs the gamut of Krazy Kat's kartoonist George Herriman to heartbreak rocker Elvis, Spider-Man's Stan Lee to New Yorker cartoonist Otto Soglow, Little Nemo's Winsor McCay to silent film star Charlie Chaplin, Nancy's Ernie Bushmiller to Surrealist Max Ernst.

Genres: Comics, Art

120 pages, Paperback

First published June 25, 2007

About the author

Craig Yoe is an author, editor, art director, graphic designer, cartoonist and comics historian, best known for his Yoe! Studio creations and his line of Yoe! Books. Yoe is married to Clizia Gussoni, who is also his creative partner

Reviews

[Carl Waluconis · Rating 5 out of 5]

The graphic novel medium, or comics/comic books, have one of the largest range of any genre books in print. This is not just content, but even a huge range of form and places where they first found print. The Arf Forum anthologies by Craig Yoe offer many different pieces of the medium's history including newspaper strips, cartoons, comics, Literature, etc. You'll either love this "Unholy Marriage of Art & Comics," or it will leave you cold. I was thrilled to read through and be amazed at the material, some of which I knew from trying to be a devoted comics scholar, but some of which was new to me. Yoe selects cleaver, revealing themes, such as here a selection of comics that self-reflect on the medium in which they appear.

[Peacegal · Rating 3 out of 5]

This is a decent little book of illustrations of all types. I’m not really sure why it was banished to our Closed Stack section.

[James · Rating 2 out of 5]

Mostly reprints of older comics, of note is a comic by the dadaist Max Ernst. Otherwise nothing really special.