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Indlæser... The Library of American Comics Essentials, Volume 3: Polly and Her Palsaf Cliff Sterrett
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Bliv medlem af LibraryThing for at finde ud af, om du vil kunne lide denne bog. Der er ingen diskussionstråde på Snak om denne bog. "Polly and her Pals" is probably the most unsung of the great classic comic strips. Few people today are familiar with it, and it has somehow escaped the recent flood of complete republishings of great strips of the past. That's a shame; there are none more deserving than this classic of surreal humor and art. There have been some very nice compilations of some of the great Sunday strips, but till now, no satisfactory reprints of the daily strips. I'd seen some of them, but this collection of the 1933 daily strips was a revelation to me. The pace of the humor is of course much more concise than the expansive Sunday strips. There are a few treatments of other races that are jarring to modern readers, but they are a product of the times and do not seem mean-spirited. And one aspect of Sterrett's art that has always tickled me is his animals. Look at any of Sterrett's animals as they walk in a way that none of Nature's creatures ever walked. Gets me every time. ( ) ingen anmeldelser | tilføj en anmeldelse
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By the early 1930s, Cliff Sterrett had transformed Polly and Her Pals into the world's premier surrealistic comic strip. Polly debuted in 1912 as one of the earliest "pretty girl" strips, but it was in 1925 that Sterrett entered his peak period, developing a new style replete with Art Deco decorations, abstract backgrounds, and distinctive surreal perspectives - all within the context of a down-right hilarious situation comedy. Sterrett's Sunday pages (also being published by The Library of American Comics) have long been hailed as individual masterpieces, but his daily strips - due to their rarity - have eluded archivists for the past ninety years. The discovery by The Library of American Comics of syndicate proofs for some early 1930s dailies - plus new information about Sterrett's involvement with a Maine-based artist colony - fills a major hole in comics history. The strips reprinted here - the complete year of 1933 dailies - show Sterrett at his most inventive, building gags upon gags within one- and two-week continuities, culminating in a spectacular holiday story in which the entire cast - Polly, Maw and Paw Perkins, cousin Ashur, Neewah, and the rest of the outrageous Perkins household - is transfigured into living, breathing Christmas dolls. No library descriptions found. |
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