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Giraffes on Horseback Salad: Salvador Dali, the Marx Brothers, and the Strangest Movie Never Made
by Tim Heidecker, Josh Frank
A Salvador Dali script based on his admiration for the Marx Brothers would have probably made for one of the most important and unique movies of the mid-twentieth century. Almost certainly it would have been either a classic, or a classic bomb popular with cinemaphiles.
As a graphic novel released in 2019, it's not particularly interesting. The commentary on classism has been done, and done better in the intervening seventy years. The vaudevillian humor is understandably dated and more groan-inducing than funny, even though it's an accurate representation of that era's humor. And the page layouts, while interesting and non-traditional, are hardly groundbreaking at this point in graphic novel history.
This might be a favorite for fans of Dali and/or The Marx Brothers, and people who enjoy works of fiction steep in history might enjoy it, but it didn't really hold my interest.
As a graphic novel released in 2019, it's not particularly interesting. The commentary on classism has been done, and done better in the intervening seventy years. The vaudevillian humor is understandably dated and more groan-inducing than funny, even though it's an accurate representation of that era's humor. And the page layouts, while interesting and non-traditional, are hardly groundbreaking at this point in graphic novel history.
This might be a favorite for fans of Dali and/or The Marx Brothers, and people who enjoy works of fiction steep in history might enjoy it, but it didn't really hold my interest.