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dantastic's review
4.0
While I did not read this book in it's entirety, I'm calling it done. Newspaper comics aren't written in a way to make them digestible in large swathes.
Anyway, so much of what came after is influenced by what Walt Kelly did with Pogo. His cartooning is without peer, even now when he's been dead for 40+ years. I hate to admit it but I think his artwork beats out even the almighty Bill Watterson. This isn't the breezy read you think it is, though. It's all written in a Southern dialect and each panel takes a little effort to decipher.
I'll dip into this from time to time in the future but for now, we are done.
Anyway, so much of what came after is influenced by what Walt Kelly did with Pogo. His cartooning is without peer, even now when he's been dead for 40+ years. I hate to admit it but I think his artwork beats out even the almighty Bill Watterson. This isn't the breezy read you think it is, though. It's all written in a Southern dialect and each panel takes a little effort to decipher.
I'll dip into this from time to time in the future but for now, we are done.
philipf's review
5.0
The second collection in a series comprehensively reprinting Kelly's wonderful comic strip. Lush, beautiful artwork and finely-tuned nonsense. Not every strip has a joke, but they are all funny.
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