FUN-TIME Games George L Carlson 1937 Platt & and 50 similar items

A little bent and the covers are a little bit stained but the game pages are bright and clean, vibrant colors. George L. Carlson is best known as the artist of the cover for Gone with the Wind. He is cited by Harlan Ellison as a "cartoonist of the absurd, on a par with Winsor McCay, George McManus, Rube Goldberg or Bill Holman. Comic book scholar Michael Barrier called him "a kind of George Herriman for little children". In the Harlan Ellison Hornbook preface to his essay on Carlson, Ellison relates how he contacted Carlson's daughters and attempted to get the material they sent him preserved in a museum or archive, to no avail. According to Paul Tumey of Fantagraphics, Carlson's book Draw Comics! Here's How - A Complete Book on Cartooning (Whitman, 1933) was included in an exhibit on Art Spiegelman in the Museum of Contemporary Art (Detroit), in 2009. Two of his comics are reprised in the Smithsonian Book of Comic-Book Comics.