Category: 1950s

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Catholic Christmas Cartoons

It’s nuns, funs, and more nuns in this collection of Catholic cartoons from the 1950s and ’60s. Culled from Catholic publications, these cartoons by nine different cartoonists (including National Cartoonists Society award winners Al Kilgore and Frank Evers, and one actual monk) cover Christmas shopping, presents, snow sports, pageants, Christmas dinner, and more, all with a with that will bring an extra dose of joy to the holiday season. A nice little gift, and something to bring out every December or whenever you need a laugh!

  • Paperback: 103 pages
  • Publisher: About Comics (October 23, 2018)
  • ISBN-10: 194999600X
  • ISBN-13: 978-1949996005
  • Product Dimensions: 5 x 0.3 x 8 inches

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Little Gabriel

Little Gabriel is the an impish little angel with a devilish sense of humor. These silent cartoon adventures should bring a smile to your face and joy to your heart.

Al Kilgore, winner of the National Cartoonists Society’s Silver T-Square and Special Features Awards, is best known for his work on the Bullwinkle comic strip. His art can also be seen in the About Comics books Convent Belles, Saints Alive! and Monsignor.

List Price: $7.99
5.5″ x 8.5″
Black & White on Cream paper
72 pages
ISBN-13: 978-1936404919
ISBN-10: 1936404915
BISAC: Humor / Form / Comic Strips & Cartoons

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Kilgore’s Catholics

Before his acclaimed work on “Rocky and Bullwinkle,” before he won both the Silver T-Square Award and the Special Features Award from the National Cartoonists Society, Al Kilgore drew a series of cartoon books about the all the characters in the Catholic community around  St. John’s Parochial School. The nuns, the priest, the monsignor, the young troublemakers and more all conspire to delight and amuse you. Here for the first time under one cover is the entire series, originally published in the books Convent Belles, Saints Alive!, and Monsignor.

List Price: $14.99
5.5″ x 8.5″
Black & White on White paper
240 pages
ISBN-13: 978-1936404957
ISBN-10: 1936404958
BISAC: Humor / Topic / Religion
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Monsignor

In Monsignor, Margaret Carroll, Jerry McCue, and Al Kilgore focus in on a little prelate with a big spirit and very human struggles. Set in the same Catholic community as Convent Belles and Saints Alive!, these cartoons may delight your heart.
List Price: $7.99
5.5″ x 8.5″
Black & White on White paper
84 pages
ISBN-13: 978-1936404933
ISBN-10: 1936404931
BISAC: Humor / Topic / Religion
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Saints Alive!

In Saints Alive!, Margaret Carroll, Jerry McCue, and Al Kilgore turn their humor to one Catholic community, its school with its delinquent student, its clergy with their joys and their foibles. For more in this little world, see Convent Belles and Monsignor, or get all three books in one in Kilgore’s Catholics.

List Price: $7.99
5.5″ x 8.5″
Black & White on White paper
84 pages
ISBN-13: 978-1936404926
ISBN-10: 1936404923
BISAC: Humor / Topic / Religion

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Convent Belles

With Convent Belles, Margaret Carroll, Jerry McCue, and Al Kilgore launched a series of original cartoon books about the Roman Catholic community around St. John’s Parochial School – the nuns, the priests, the schoolchildren, and more. Look also for Saints Alive!, and Monsignor, or get all three books in one affordable volume order Kilgore’s Catholics.

Al Kilgore, best known for his work on Rocky & Bullwinkle, would later go on to win the National Cartoonists Society’s Silver T-Square and Special Features Awards.

List Price: $7.99
5.5″ x 8.5″ 
Black & White on White paper
About Comics
ISBN-13: 978-1936404896
ISBN-10: 1936404893
BISAC: Humor / Topic / Religion
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All Angels Parish

Welcome to All Angels Parish, where the parishoners may not be all angels, but they are all trying…. sometimes, very trying!

These Hugh Devine cartoons began appearing in The Pilot, the official newspaper of the Archdiocese of Boston, in 1948. They give an upbeat but not unrealistic look at Catholic life of the day. This volume reprints all of the contents of the original 1951 edition.

List Price: $7.99
5.25″ x 8″
Black & White on Cream paper
104 pages
ISBN-13: 978-1936404889
ISBN-10: 1936404885
BISAC: Humor / Topic / Religion

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The Negro Travelers’ Green Book 1957: facsimile edition

This is a full reproduction of the 1957 edition of The Negro Travelers’ Green Book, the classic travel guide for African Americans during the Jim Crow era. 
  • List Price: $9.99
  • 5″ x 6.75″
  • Black & White on Cream paper
  • 88 pages
  • ISBN-13: 978-1936404872
  • ISBN-10: 1936404877
  • BISAC: History / United States / 20th Century
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Two Little Nuns

Bill O’Malley’s TWO LITTLE NUNS launched a series of collection of nun cartoons that had America laughing through the 1950s and 1960s. Out of print for more than half a century, this very popular collection (six printings in its first year alone) is now back, ready for a new audience and those who want to look back on their past!
List Price: $7.99
5.25″ x 8″  
Black & White on White paper
76 pages
ISBN-13: 978-1936404766
ISBN-10: 1936404761
BISAC: Humor / Topic / Religion
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Nun Funnies!

What are black and white and read all over? Nun Funnies! 

Back before Sister Act, before Nunsense, before Sister Mary Elephant and even The Flying Nun, nuns were tickling our funny bones in cartoon form. Here, originally published by the Catholic magazine Extension, are hundreds of examples, one for each day of the year (no need to take Sundays off.) Really, as many nun cartoons as the average person will need in a lifetime, all by the talented Joe Lane!

List Price: $14.99
8.5″ x 11″ 
Black & White on White paper
136 pages
ISBN-13: 978-1936404773
ISBN-10: 193640477X
BISAC: Humor / Topic / Religion