Speck is the ultimate altar boy, half holy, half hellion, well-intentioned but oh, so distractible. Some of us remember dealing with him, others of us remember being him.

Margaret Ahern spent a quarter century drawing the adventures of the never-aging Speck, being one of the few female cartoonists to take part in the Catholic cartoon explosion of the 1950s and one of the artists who stuck with the form the longest. This book collects the first two collections of her work (Speck the Altar Boy and Presenting… Speck the Altar Boy), both out of print for decades, into a single volume for the first time, with hundreds of prime Speck cartoons. Also available: AN ALTAR BOY NAMED ‘SPECK’, a collection of cartoons by Speck’s creator, W. R. “Tut” LeBlanc.

  • Paperback : 211 pages
  • ISBN-10 : 194999631X
  • Item Weight : 11.8 ounces
  • Dimensions : 5.5 x 0.53 x 8.5 inches

By About Comics

About Comics, founded and run by Eisner Award-winning writer Nat Gertler, has been reprinting comics of various forms since 1999. Based in Camarillo, California, About Comics has published not just comics reprints (of comic strips, cartoon books, comic books, and graphic novels) but also original comics, comics how-to material, original and reprint prose novels, and historic material like the Negro Motorist Green Book. More information is available at AboutComics.com.