Cartoon County: My Father and His Friends in the Golden Age of Make-Believe

He is the author of The Word According to Eve, Just Curious, and God’s Jury. Cullen Murphy is the editor at large at Vanity Fair and the former managing editor of The Atlantic Monthly. He lives in Massachusetts with his family.

Anarchic and deeply creative, the cartoonists were independent spirits whose artistic talents had mainly been forged during service in World War II.Illustrated with never-before-seen photographs, cartoons, and drawings, Cartoon County brings the postwar American era alive, told through the relationship of a son to his father, an extraordinarily talented and generous man who had been trained by Norman Rockwell. Cartoonists and their art were a pop-cultural force in a way that few today remember. A poignant history of the cartoonists

He lives in Massachusetts with his family. . About the AuthorCullen Murphy is the editor at large at Vanity Fair and the former managing editor of The Atlantic Monthly. He is the author of The Word According to Eve, Just Curious, and God’s Jury