The legendary jazz illustrator finally gets the coffee-table treatment. Fantagraphics Books is proud to publish the coffee-table style art book accompanying the traveling Arnold Roth exhibition celebrating 50 years of cartooning. The exhibit will showcase almost 100 pieces of Roth's work, drawn over the last 50 years, and will travel to approximately ten venues throughout the United States and Europe from September 2000 through 2004.Roth is one of the most successful cartoonists of the second half of the 20th century, whose work has appeared in Playboy, Esquire, Time, National Lampoon, the Saturday Evening Post, Sports Illustrated, Punch, Premiere, the Nation, Mother Jones, Harper's, Entertainment Weekly, Rolling Stone, TV Guide, Smithsonian, and many other national magazines. He is the creator of the classic newspaper strip Poor Arnold's Almanac (collected in 1999 by Fantagraphics), and he is perhaps best-remembered for the numerous album covers he illustrated for jazz great Dave Brubek. Roth was also a regular artist in Harvey Kurtzman's three post-Mad humor magazines, Trump, Humbug, and Help!. The exhibition catalogue is printed in an oversized format and features both black-and-white cartoons and strips and an abundance of Roth's gorgeous, vivid watercolor cartoon paintings, all of which appeared in disparate magazines over the years and none of which are readily available to collectors and fans.

Author Biography: Arnold Roth lives with his wife, Caroline, in New York City.