Busch's work is considered by many to be the first with the look and feel of a true comic strip, and it served as a model for the first modern strip, Randolph Dirk's "Katzenjammer Kids."

Busch's work is considered by many to be the first with the look and feel of a true comic strip, and it served as a model for the first modern strip, Randolph Dirk's "Katzenjammer Kids."

A new translation by Andy Gaus of these classic popular satirical Wilhelm Busch cartoons, with original illustrations, in black and white, throughout. This volume includes Max & Moritz a Bad-Boy Story in Seven Tricks; Ice Peter, A Funny Picture Story; Diogenes and the Bad Boys of Corinth; four poems from Critique of the Heart; and a biographical note on Wilhelm Busch.