Outlaws, Rebels, Freethinkers & Pirates: Essays on Cartoons & Cartoonists

A single-issue collection from Fantagraphics, Outlaws, Rebels, Freethinkers & Pirates gathers essays originally published in The Comics Journal from 2005 onward. The book profiles a pantheon of cartoonists—from R. Crumb and Harvey Kurtzman to Basil Wolverton and Jack Kirby—who challenged convention and expanded the medium's boundaries. It stands as a thoughtful, compact primer on the artists who made comics a form of personal and political expression.