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LOAC Essentials Volume 3: Polly and Her Pals by Cliff Sterrett, Dean Mullaney, Bruce Canwell
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4.0
LOAC Essentials Volume 3: Polly and Her Pals collects all the daily Polly and her Pals strips from 1933.
I first encountered Cliff Sterrett and the Polly and her Pals strip in that Smithsonian Newspaper Comics collection I read a while back. This was fairly cheap and seemed like a good way to read a whole bunch of the strips.
So this is good shit. Cliff Sterrett has a surreal bend to his art at times which adds to the comedy of the strip. While it's a gag a day comic, the stories link together into two week arcs, like Paw buying a new suit or a car and dealing with the fallout. There's also the extended arc of Polly's family moving to a farm with two week arcs within that.
There's some casual 1930s racism that you'll need to overlook but this is a hilarious collection. I gather that Polly was the star at the beginning but pretty much everything in this volume revolves around her Paw, aka Sam. I'm guessing it's like when the Simpsons writers decided Homer was the best character to write for instead of Bart.
Four out of five stars. I'm glad I have the two color Sunday volumes on the way.
I first encountered Cliff Sterrett and the Polly and her Pals strip in that Smithsonian Newspaper Comics collection I read a while back. This was fairly cheap and seemed like a good way to read a whole bunch of the strips.
So this is good shit. Cliff Sterrett has a surreal bend to his art at times which adds to the comedy of the strip. While it's a gag a day comic, the stories link together into two week arcs, like Paw buying a new suit or a car and dealing with the fallout. There's also the extended arc of Polly's family moving to a farm with two week arcs within that.
There's some casual 1930s racism that you'll need to overlook but this is a hilarious collection. I gather that Polly was the star at the beginning but pretty much everything in this volume revolves around her Paw, aka Sam. I'm guessing it's like when the Simpsons writers decided Homer was the best character to write for instead of Bart.
Four out of five stars. I'm glad I have the two color Sunday volumes on the way.
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