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The Outsider
Paperback
Publisher Price: $25.00
ISBN13: 9781683969051
Publisher: Fantagraphics Underground - Fu Press
Published: Sep 29 2026
Pages: 172
Language: English
The Outsider is both a bird's-eye view of the comic book industry in the 1950s and an intimate portrait of one of its most militant artists. Joseph D'Esposito explores the Jewish roots of comics and its lineage of Black, women, and other unsung participants (such as Matt Baker, a Black pioneer of the graphic novel). In the political hotbed of postwar America, the personal and the political weave vertiginously, culminating in Master Race, written by Al Feldstein and elevated into one of the few serious early comics works by Krigstein's formal innovations.
The beating heart of Krigstein's journey is his wife, Natalie, a multifaceted character who grapples with competing roles as steadfast partner, postpartum mother, and ambitious writer. Other friends and foils include Stan Lee, Harvey Kurtzman, and Robert Kanigher. The Outsider is a story about dedication, frustration, ambition, anger, integrity --the 1950s comic book industry-- all told in vivid, painterly strokes of melancholic blue.
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