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The Great Comic Book Artists vol.1 & 2
(1986 / 1989 - St. Martin's Press) 
  [ - BELOW THE LINE - ] (by Ron Goulart) In the first book, 60 artists are profiled, each with a one-page biography and a one-page example of their work. The examples are either a page of sequential art or a comic cover. Unfortunately, the covers are all black-&-white reproductions of the colorful covers themselves, so nothing in this book gets counted as the 'art' we are tracking, by my criteria. A lot of fun reading, but I'm also put off by what I think are poor black-&-white reproductions of the color comic pages.
In the 2nd volume, it's 56 more artists and I guess the reproductions are a little cleaner and fewer covers have been used as the single example of an artist's work, which seems appropriate given it's the comic work that is gathering point for them all. Again, I love the information on all of them, but I think a better art choice, presented crisp & clear, could have been made for almost every artist.
Inside Comics
     Dynamite comics art & cover collections
 The Comics Journal Library 5 - Classic Comics Illustrators
  Erotic Comics vols.1 & 2
 Masters Of Comic Book Art
       Heritage Auctions Comics & Comic Art Catalogs
 Sotheby's 1993 June (Comic Books/Comic Art)
 Comic Book Artist # 22 [BELOW THE LINE]
 500 Comic Book Villains [BELOW THE LINE]
 Sex In The Comics [BELOW THE LINE]
other Ron Goulart books
  Great American Comic Books / Over 50 Years Of American Comic Books
 Comic Book Culture - An Illustrated History
 Cheap Thrills - An Informal History Of The Pulp Magazine [ BELOW THE LINE ]
 The Dime Detectives [ BELOW THE LINE ]
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