{"product_id":"oh-skin-nay-the-days-of-real-sport-1","title":"Oh Skin-Nay!: The Days Of Real Sport","description":"Poetry Verses by Wilbur D. Nesbit\u003cbr\u003eAfterword by Comics Historian Jeet Heer\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA 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 success in such big-city papers as The Chicago Examiner, the Chicago Tribune, and the New York Tribune. Within a few years, he became one of the most popular and imitated cartoonists in America: Frank King, Milton Caniff, and the first generation of New Yorker cartoonists all emulated Briggs. Eschewing the roughneck humor of early comic strips, Briggs drew low-key strips in two modes: nostalgic reveries focused on memories of small-town boyhood and satirical strips about the squabbles inherent in married life.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFirst published in 1913 by P. F. Volland and Company of Chicago, Oh Skin-Nay! is a collaboration between Briggs and poet Wilbur D. Nesbit and portrays a year in the life of small-town America through the eyes of the twelve-year-old boy―wood gathering, sleigh rides, games of post office, swimming holes, and sandlot ball games.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis book is presented as a facsimile edition of double-page spreads containing short poems and full-page cartoons as well as an expanded afterword on Briggs by comics historian Jeet Heer.","brand":"Bookshop.sg","offers":[{"title":"Thryft - Used (Like New)","offer_id":42520251465806,"sku":"9781894937924","price":9.83,"currency_code":"SGD","in_stock":false},{"title":"Thryft - Used (Very Good)","offer_id":42520251498574,"sku":"9781894937924","price":7.87,"currency_code":"SGD","in_stock":false},{"title":"Thryft - Used (Good)","offer_id":42520251531342,"sku":"9781894937924","price":7.08,"currency_code":"SGD","in_stock":false},{"title":"Thryft - Used (Well Read)","offer_id":42520251564110,"sku":"9781894937924","price":6.29,"currency_code":"SGD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0645\/3857\/4926\/files\/649705_eb48a4ac-3072-4a3b-8562-150c2fc6e9d6.jpg?v=1747377693","url":"https:\/\/bookshop.sg\/products\/oh-skin-nay-the-days-of-real-sport-1","provider":"Bookshop.sg","version":"1.0","type":"link"}