Chicken Fat
Will Elder. Fantagraphics Books, 2006. This companion volume to Will Elder: The Mad Playboy of Art peeks into the gray matter of one of comics' most fertile and wide-ranging imaginations. Elder coined the term "chicken fat" to describe the myriad background gags crammed into his stories for MAD, Panic, Humbug, Goodman Beaver and Little Annie Fanny: "It's the part of the chicken soup that is bad for you, yet gives the soup its delicious flavor," he once explained.

Chicken Fat is a collection of flavors by a master comedic chef as he works out his recipes: a collection of sketches, drawings and a variety of obscure commercial illustration over the course of Elder's long career.

Elder's stable of characters is duly represented, with Goodman Beaver, Little Annie Fanny, the Mole and the more obscure Anthony Adverse, together with caricatures of celebrities and politicians, studies of classic comics characters (including the iconic Wedding of Popeye and Olive Oyl), movie posters, assorted gag panels, anatomical and fine art studies, and pages upon pages of ingeniously realized doodles. With 48 black-and-white pages and 48 color pages. 96 pages. Soft Cover Part Colour 8" x 10" (203mm x 254mm) (ISBN-13: 9781560977049)
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Will Elder The Mad Playboy Of Art
Illustrated by Will Elder, edited by Gary Groth & Greg Sadowski, foreword by Daniel Clowes. Fantagraphics Books, 2003. A sumptuous feast, showcasing the art and times of Will Elder, whose art found its place under Harvey Kurtzman's editorship. Kurtzman, of course created Mad, as both comic & later magazine before several other satirical ventures. He would wind up creating the occasionally dressed adventures of Little Annie Fanny. Born in 1921, Elder was instrumental in creating and defining the look for all these periods, for his editor & friend. Most famously, the Mad style of art, full of crazy, crowded panels, lunatic signs & marginal happenings. This fond reminiscence shows there is much more to his art and covers all periods, including many fine art paintings. It is time for this master artist to step out of the shadows of his mentor, this book lets him do just that. Highly recommended for lovers of art, humour, general madness and Will Elder. Soft Cover Full Colour 9" x 12" (23cm x 30cm) ISBN: 1560975601 and ISBN-13: 9781560975601
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