In his most recent book, CULLEN MURPHY, author of God’s Jury and Are We Rome?, editor-at-large at Vanity Fair and former managing editor of The Atlantic Monthly— tells a personal story, about his own relationship with his father, the talented artist behind the popular comic strips Prince Valiant and Big Ben Blot. Sharing never-before-seen photographs, cartoons, drawings, Murphy’s Cartoon County gives us a glimpse into a very special community– and into an America that used to be.
Certain books were “banned in Boston” at least as far back as 1651, when one William Pynchon wrote a book criticizing Puritanism.