Unearthed as part of a massive collection of pre-WWII newspaper printing plates, the mid-1930s comic strips UNCLE OTTO and HARRY KARRY represent the earliest known cartooning of the great comics and sequential art pioneer Will Eisner. In these strips you can see the young Eisner's imagination expanding, as he experiments with the possibilities of serialized storytelling and works through his numerous influences. The comics collected within document the genesis of one of the most iconic and brilliant cartoonists of all time.

Denis Kitchen provides an in-depth introduction to the work and the context in which it fits into Eisner's life and career.

B&W. 72 pages. 11" x 6.5" (landscape) Hardcover. Cloth-bound, foil-stamped cover.