{"product_id":"tall-tales-hardcover","title":"Tall Tales Hardcover","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eTall Tales was an innovative newspaper strip syndicated internationally by the \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eNew York Herald Tribune\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003efrom 1957–1963. Whereas newspaper strips are square, single-panel or multiple-panel horizontal gag cartoons, Al Jaffee, known for the Fold-In in \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eMAD\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eMagazine, once again altered the format of his work to create a vertical strip—the first, and last, in newspaper history. Tall Tales contains the best 120 wordless strips out of over 2,200, scanned from the original files. The book features a new preface by Jaffee and an introduction by Stephen Colbert of \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eThe Colbert Report\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003e“Al Jaffee is the cartoonist’s cartoonist. He’s a pioneer in every field, from comic books to book illustration to magazine cartoons. The worst thing about Jaffee is that every time I do a drawing, I find out he’s done it before . . . and better.”\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003e—Sergio Aragonés, cartoonist\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003e“This collection proves that not only has Al Jaffee always been funny, he’s always been disturbed.”\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003e— Stephen Colbert, from his introduction\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"OTHER PUBLISHERS","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47940333502708,"sku":null,"price":13.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0621\/7056\/2804\/files\/4137HMFuXvL.jpg?v=1775152868","url":"https:\/\/www.gothamcentralcomics.com\/en-us\/products\/tall-tales-hardcover","provider":"Gotham Central","version":"1.0","type":"link"}