{"id":1477,"date":"2007-11-22T18:45:37","date_gmt":"2007-11-22T18:45:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/?p=1477"},"modified":"2007-11-22T18:46:10","modified_gmt":"2007-11-22T18:46:10","slug":"milton-caniffs-america","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/2007\/11\/22\/milton-caniffs-america\/","title":{"rendered":"Milton Caniff&#8217;s America"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em>Reflections of a Drawingboard Patriot<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/11\/milton-caniffs-america-jpg.jpg\" alt=\"Milton Caniff's America\" \/><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>By <strong>Milton Caniff<\/strong>, edited by Shel Dorf (Eclipse Books)<br \/>\nISBN 0-913-035-25-4<\/p>\n<p>This little rarity is a delightful introduction into the old-fashioned world and magical artistry of possibly the greatest strip cartoonist of all time. Released in the mid 1980s when Caniff&#8217;s brand of patriotism was slowly giving way to a much more intolerant and cruel brand of paranoid nationalism, these excerpts from his vast body of work forcefully remind the reader of a purer, more idealistic and aspirational land of Freedom and Opportunity.<\/p>\n<p>Fans will delight in the chance to see some of the creator&#8217;s early reportage and portraiture, his editorial cartooning and landmark strips such as the episode of <em>Terry and the Pirates<\/em> that was read into the Congressional Record. Also collected are his public service drawings, a <em>Steve Canyon<\/em> sequence (from 1982) entitled &#8216;What is Patriotism?&#8217; and his strips dedicated to departed comrades.<\/p>\n<p>Of most moving consequence are the collected Armed Forces Day strips and every <em>Steve Canyon<\/em> Christmas Day episode (an unbroken string of graphic ruminations on the lot and role of the military everyman) from 1947 to 1987.<\/p>\n<p>Stirring, gripping, heartfelt, these evocations from a master of his craft are the best tribute from, to and by an honest plain-dealer. Simply Wonderful.<\/p>\n<p>Artwork \u00c2\u00a9 1987 Milton Caniff. \u00c2\u00a9 2007 Ester Parsons Caniff Estate. Text features \u00c2\u00a9 their respective authors. All Rights Reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reflections of a Drawingboard Patriot By Milton Caniff, edited by Shel Dorf (Eclipse Books) ISBN 0-913-035-25-4 This little rarity is a delightful introduction into the old-fashioned world and magical artistry of possibly the greatest strip cartoonist of all time. Released in the mid 1980s when Caniff&#8217;s brand of patriotism was slowly giving way to a &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/2007\/11\/22\/milton-caniffs-america\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Milton Caniff&#8217;s America&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1477","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4AFj-nP","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1477","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1477"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1477\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1477"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1477"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1477"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}