BOSC: BILDERBUCH FÜR ERWACHSENE CARTOONS RARE 1970 PB SINGLE PANEL COMICS GERMAN

This charming estate find 53-year-old paperback is 100% in German language, printed in Germany. Spine is straight but creased. All pages intact, clean, unmarked and lightly tanned. Care must be taken to read book because I can tell that original glue in spine is drying out. Publisher DTV used a very thin layer of clear film over the cover. Both front and back covers have some creases on them. See photos. Very few copies of this RARE BOOK are available. I find only about 4 in Europe online for sale.

Jean Bosc (1924-1973) was a French cartoonist, poster designer and animated cartoon director born in Nîmes, France. After military service in France and Indochina, Bosc rejoined weekly magazine Paris-Match in 1952 and also contributed cartoons to Punch, Esquire and France-Observateur. Many of his drawings were published in albums Gloria Viktoria, Homo Sapiens, Mort au Tiran ("Death to the Tyrant"), Les Boscaves ("Bosc's Fools", 1965), Si De Gaulle était Petit ("If De Gaulle Was Short", 1968) and La Fleur dan Tous Ses Etats ("Two Flowers", 1968). All his cartoons show absurd and cruel incongruity, portraying look-alike, almost interchangeable long-nosed men and kids who wait in long lines or walk in funeral corteges or interminable parades. Bosc's long military stint is probably responsible for his antimilitaristic slant, with officers seen as heartless fools, sometimes reduced to beribboned and bemedalled jackets, and privates seen as inoffensive, mechanical dunces performing menial chores. Bosc directed animated cartoons: Le Voyage en Boscavie ("Travels in Bosc Country"), which won the Emile Cohl Prize in 1959, and Le Chapeau ("The Hat"). Bosc saw no escape from the absurdity of the human condition: in 1973, at 49, he killed himself in Antibes on the French Riviera. (Source: The World Encyclopedia of Cartoons)

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