TY - ABST T1 - Art Young’s Inferno: A Journey Through Hell Six Hundred Years After Dante Y1 - 1934 A1 - Art [Arthur Henry] Young (1866-1943) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Satan has lost control of Hell to U.S. capitalists. The section “It’s Good for Us” was originally entitled (Utopians and Their Critics” (50 in the Delphic Studios edition; 33-34 in the Fantagraphics edition). The third of Young’s excursions to Hell. The first was Hades Up to Date. Chicago, IL: F. J. Schulte & Co., 1892. https://archive.org/details/hadesuptodate00youn. Rpt. as Hell Up to Date: The Reckless Journey of R. Palasco Drant, Newspaper Correspondent, Through the Infernal Regions, As Reported by Himself with illustrations by Art Young. Chicago, IL: The Schulte Publishing Co., 1893. This depicts the various people condemned to Hell with short captions. The second was Through Hell with Hiprah Hunt: A Series of Pictures and Notes of Travel Illustrating the Adventures of a Modern Dante in the Infernal Regions Also Other Pictures of the Same Subterranean World by Arthur Young. New York: Zimmerman’s, 1901. Much the same as the first and includes some of the same illustrations and text. Some were previously published in Cosmopolitan Magazine, the New York Evening Journal, and Judge. The author was a well-known cartoonist and socialist.

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Repub. with the previously unpublished original art as Art Young’s Inferno: Original Art Edition. Seattle, WA: Fantagraphics Books, 2020, with Steven Heller, “Forever Art Young” (xi-xii), Glenn Bray, “Art Young’s Revised Inferno” (xv), and Art Young: An American” (xvii-xx). xx + 164 pp.

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Illus. by the author.

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