The Goops and Other Works
Burgess wrote and illustrated several children's books about the habits of strange, baldheaded, idiosyncratic childlike creatures he called the Goops. He created the syndicated comic strip Goops in 1924 and worked on it to its end in 1925.
An influential article by Burgess, "The Wild Men of Paris", was the first introduction of cubist art in the United States. The article was drawn from interviews with Henri Matisse, Pablo Picasso, and Georges Braque.
"The Wild Men of Paris" was partly humorous but partly serious. Burgess's fully serious writings include "War the Creator," an account of a young man he had met in Paris in July 1914 and saw again as a wounded soldier a few months later: "a boy who, in two months, became a man."
His books The Maxims of Methuselah and The Maxims of Noah were illustrated by Louis D. Fancher.
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