Accidental Ambassador Gordo: The Comic Strip Art of Gus Arriola

by Gus Arriola and Robert C. Harvey

Book Overview

The comic strip Gordo was published in U.S. newspapers for forty-four years (1941-1985). For almost all of this run its creator Gus Arriola was the most visible American of Mexican descent working as a syndicated cartoonist. At its peak Gordo appeared in 270 newspapers and was the more widely circulated and longer-running of only two American comic strips set in Mexico.

Gordo recounted the humorous adventures and amorous...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 157806161X
• ISBN13: 9781578061617
• Release Date: September 2000
• Publisher: University Press of Mississippi
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 1.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 8.3" x 10.9"