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Gary Groth
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Tower of Iron Will
Tower of Iron Will rated it 12 years ago
Carl Barks was a brilliant cartoonist and he created a huge supporting cast for Donald Duck that Disney has been trading off (uncredited and unthanked) in various television cartoons for decades. Having said that, I don't find the stories particularly funny. Some of the stories are clever, like Do...
Musings of a Book Addict
Musings of a Book Addict rated it 13 years ago
An anthology near and dear to my heart, because it contains many of the artists that I first cut my comix teeth on. Some favorites from this mix: Lynda Barry; Robert Crumb; Krystine Kryttre]; [a:Jaime Hernandez; Mark Beyer; Kim Deitch; Paul Chadwick; Richard Sala; Dori Seda; and Joyce Farmer.
Rich's Gulag
Rich's Gulag rated it 13 years ago
This is an excellent retrospective on a pivotal decade in the development of comic books. Don't expect Superman and Spider-Man here, though ... this is devoted to what would have been called underground comix in earlier days, and alternative comics later on. Luckily, they're all just classified as c...
A Man With An Agenda
A Man With An Agenda rated it 13 years ago
The third volume of Fantographics complete reprinting of 'Peanuts' is just as gorgeous, but because of the repetition of some gags and punchlines (both within this book and from the older volumes) I feel obligated to knock a star off. The strips are still funny, the beauty of it is that these gags w...
Itinerant Librarian on Books
Itinerant Librarian on Books rated it 17 years ago
I have read the first two volumes, which I need to add at some point. I am mostly borrowing them from the public library, but this is a set I would not mind having. For this third volume, I have to agree with other readers in that Schultz is finding his stride. Only thing that kind of gets me is how...
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