All PostsContent Topic: comic_strips
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Reading Tip: Oh! Margy!
Barnacle Press has a year’s worth of John Held’s “Oh! Margy!” strip up at their site. This is quintessential “flapper” work, Held being recognized as one of the best known illustrators of the time. His thin line work is quite attractive and minimalist, along with a lot of spot black and patterns. Worth a browse [...]
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Flash Gordon Volumes 4 and 5
I just finished up the most recent two volumes (4 and 5) of Checker’s reprint of Alex Raymond’s Flash Gordon. I previously reviewed the first three volumes. These two volumes cover the period from June of 1938 to August of 1941, and Raymond’s art is even better than before. He eschews word balloons at one [...]
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Books about Comic Strips
This was the year I discovered comic strips. Having paid very little attention to them before (even as I kid I remember reading the Sunday comics, but not having any particular favorites that I followed), I’ve discovered a lot of great classics this year. Much of this was thanks to a number of websites and [...]
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Modesty Blaise: The Black Pearl
Modesty Blaise: The Black Pearl by Peter O’Donnell (writer) and Jim Holdaway (artist). Titan Books, 2004. unpaginated, b+w, 8.5″ x 11.5″, $16.95. This volume (the fourth in Titan’s series) collects the daily Modesty Blaise strip from December 12, 1966 to January 13, 1968. The title character is some kind of spy (in the adventures here [...]
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Best of Little Nemo
The Best of LIttle Nemo in Slumberland by Winsor McCay, Edited by Richard Marschall. Stewart, Tabori & Chang, 1997. 216p., 10″ X 12.5″, out of print. While Krazy Kat, on cursory viewing, looks unimpressive with its scratchy art, Little Nemo in Slumberland is impressive to behold in its large, colored form. Unfortunately, while Krazy Kat [...]
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Krazy Kat 1931 – 1932
Krazy Kat Volume 4: A Kat Alilt with Song by George Herriman. Fantagraphics, 2004. 9X12, 120p., $14.95 Continuing my run of comic strips collections I picked up this book from Fantagraphics’ ongoing Krazy Kat series. This book includes all the Sunday strips (full-page) from 1931 and 1932 as well as a selection of the daily [...]
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John Crowley on Pogo
A favorite author of mine writing a longish essay on a comic strip I’ve been meaning to read: John Crowley writes on Walt Kelly’s Pogo in the Boston Review. Pogo is dream-Edenic, a world at once ever-novel and changeless (it thinned and vanished eventually, for though there was no death in that Arcadia, Kelly was [...]
