Jack Cole And Plastic Man by Art Spiegelman

A lively critical study and illustrated celebration of the life and work behind Plastic Man, tracing the artist’s rise from pulp-house draftsman to a master of visual comedy and formal invention; it combines biography, close readings of strips and original art reproductions to show how his elastic anatomy, timing, and fearless experimentation stretched the possibilities of sequential art while reflecting and subverting midcentury American culture, arguing for his overlooked influence on generations of cartoonists.