150 years of great cartooning under one cover! The third volume of the popular 'Arf' series,Arf Forum, runs the gamut fromKrazy Kat's kartoonist George Herriman to heartbreak rocker Elvis Presley,Spider-Man's Stan Lee toNew Yorkercartoonist Otto Soglow,Little Nemo's Winsor McCay to silent-film star Charlie Chaplin,Nancy's Ernie Bushmiller to Surrealist Max Ernst. The sexy pin-up cover onArf Forumhighlights a feature on historical images of people reading comics, from a young Elvis reading Betty and Veronica on his first tour to a boxer-clad Rock Hudson reading the Sunday Funnies. Also ratcheting up the titillation factor is a spread on the sexy cartoons of the Italian artist 'Kremos.' TheArfbooks have a special fondness for cartoonists doing wacky and surrealistic comics: Bill Holman'sSmokey Stovercomic strip is the hallmark of Dada meets Dagwood and thisArffeatures a generous sample including unpublished rarities. Also in this volume, macabre cartoonist Henry Heath goes devilish in
