Oh Skin-Nay!

Poetry Verses by Wilbur D. Nesbit
Afterword by Comics Historian Jeet Heer

A grittier and less sentimental predecessor to Norman Rockwell, Clare Briggs exemplified the larger journey of American society from small-town innocence to urbane sophistication. The son of a farm machinery salesman, Briggs left his rural home as a young man to forge a career as an illustrator and cartoonist, earning...