Nemo (magazine)
devoted to classic comic strips
Nemo, the Classic Comics Library was a magazine devoted to the history and creators of vintage comic strips. Created by comics historian Rick Marschall, it was published between 1983 and 1990 by Fantagraphics.
Nemo ran for 31 issues (the last being a double issue) plus one annual. Most issues were edited by Marschall. The title was taken from the classic comic strip Little Nemo. While some issues were thematic, most were a mix of articles, interviews, comic strip reprints and more.
Marschall later co-founded another magazine about comics, Hogan's Alley.
Nemo Bookshelf
During that same period in the 1980s, Fantagraphics launched an imprint, Nemo Bookshelf, the Classic Comics Library. This was a line of classic comic strip reprint books, including Little Orphan Annie, Pogo, Red Barry, Dickie Dare, The Complete E. C. Segar Popeye and Prince Valiant.
Issues
Terry and the Pirates
Superman
Popeye
Flash Gordon
Fantasy in Comics
Alley Oop
Disney legends
Little Orphan Annie
Hal Foster Interview
Cartoon Christmas Cards
Art of Charles Dana Gibson, Sam's Strip by Mort Walker and Jerry Dumas, Clare Victor Dwiggins, Nervy Nat by James Montgomery Flagg, Slim Jim
Cartoonists and World War II
Red Barry
George McManus
Milton Caniff's first art script
Huck Finn
Dick Tracy
Al Capp
Kerry Drake
Golden Age of Comics Promotion
King Aroo
John Held Jr., Jimmy Swinnerton, 100 years ago, Joe Palooka
Little Orphan Annie, Hi and Lois
Rube Goldberg
Edwina Dumm's Cap Stubbs and Tippie, Milton Caniff's advertising work, reminiscences by John Neville Wheeler, early work of Gene Ahern
T. S. Sullivant's Unforgettable Comic Zoo
Cartoon Art of Norman Rockwell, "Lovely Lilly" by Carolyn Wells, chalk-plate cartoon production, William Faulkner and The Comics, "White Boy" by Garrett Price
Ethnic Images
Gasoline Alley Sunday Pages, interview with Ferd Johnson and Texas Slim strips, Ming Foo by Nicholas Afonsky and Brandon Walsh
Little Nemo, Joseph Keppler, Ernie Bushmiller
Double Issue - Charles Schulz Interview, Milton Caniff, Krazy Kat, Cliff Sterrett
Annual 1 — Screwball Comics Special Milt Gross, Dr.
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