I listened to the audiobook but I'll have to pick up a copy with the illustrations soon. Short, simple but quite effective. Dahl is a master of settinI listened to the audiobook but I'll have to pick up a copy with the illustrations soon. Short, simple but quite effective. Dahl is a master of setting up miserable character, mean to children, who get their justly comeuppance. ...more
Fantastic short story. It is a bit too much of a parable for my tastes, and I can see why this would make for an excellent middle school examination..Fantastic short story. It is a bit too much of a parable for my tastes, and I can see why this would make for an excellent middle school examination... but it was still a good read for me. ...more
An excellent overview of Kurtzman's career with enough reprinted stories and original artwork to keep me engaged.
I really liked that they included thAn excellent overview of Kurtzman's career with enough reprinted stories and original artwork to keep me engaged.
I really liked that they included the complete original art for Corpse on the Imjin. I didn't realize how much I'd love to have a set of his best EC war stories as an artist's edition.
They also show the original pages for Marley's Ghost. Cool but now that's been completed and reprinted for us in its own volume.
There's also some process work shown for Little Annie Fanny. It's wild how much time and effort went into each page of that comic.
Kurtzman covered a lot of ground between realistic war comics, creating Mad Magazine, and working for PlayBoy. All the while he was dealing with low pay and restrictive companies, the Comics Code, etc. The context makes it even more incredible that he was able to put out such great work. ...more
R. Crumb - I'm Grateful! I'm Grateful! Crumb responds to the criticisms that he's always morbid and shows some of the thingHighlights:
Cover as always.
R. Crumb - I'm Grateful! I'm Grateful! Crumb responds to the criticisms that he's always morbid and shows some of the things he loves. Mostly not having to work and his record collection... then descends into his true love - the female figure.
Gilbert Hernandez - Gilbert and his wife Carol do a riff on story telling like Bob and Aline.
Bagge and Daniel Clowes - Life In These United States. Kind of cool to see Clowes illustrating a story written by someone else. It didn't really interest me unfortunately. ...more
Most of the non-Crumb stuff doesn't work for me. It's a bit too juvenile and low effort. There's a piece by Kim Deitch that was just too much prose thMost of the non-Crumb stuff doesn't work for me. It's a bit too juvenile and low effort. There's a piece by Kim Deitch that was just too much prose that didn't appeal to me. Really it's just the cover and the Crumb story that were cool. That cover is wild. I can't imagine seeing that on the shelf at my LCS.
Crumb - Goldilocks and the Three Bears. A retelling where the bears call the sheriff to come arrest the drug addled punk Goldilocks....more
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