Ripley’s Believe It or Not! Odditoriums are among the most popular museums worldwide, yet most people don’t know that it all started with a daily cartoon drawn by one man—Robert Ripley!
Each volume containing two years of Ripley’s cartoons in addition to insightful background information on Ripley and his global travels.
This series begins a chronological reprinting of Ripley’s famous daily cartoons in hardcover collections, reminding us that first and foremost Robert Ripley–explorer, radio, movie and television personality, entrepreneur, and museum impresario–was an astounding artist-cartoonist.
This first volume reprises cartoons from 1929 and 1930, when Ripley’s fame raised him from relative obscurity to international celebrity.
Includes bonus and background material from Ripley’s impressive archives