Word: burrs
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...creature thought to bridge the evolution from fin to feet. And this week sees the re-appearance of another, less world-historical but still woefully forgotten "missing link" in the evolution of the graphic novel medium. Kings in Disguise (W.W. Norton; 184 pages; $17), by James Vance and Dan Burr, will finally be reprinted in an affordable, attractive and widely-available paperback edition. A remarkably sensitive and engrossing book from the late 1980s, when the medium got its first - short-lived - shot at mainstream appreciation, it remains, even 15 years later, a benchmark against which others in the genre...
...unusual and anomalous work in many ways, it remains unique in the oeuvre of both the writer (Vance) and artist (Burr), who never worked together again and neither of whom went on to produce much of anything even remotely as interesting. [Update: they are now working on a sequel, I am told.] Kings originates from Vance's days as a playwright of Depression-era, ash-can style dramas. Set in the early 1930s, the book follows the adventures of the 12-year-old Freddie Bloch, a working-class kid forced by circumstances to hit the railroad tracks of America...
...relationship finely tuned by changing its nature from the beginning - Freddie needs a mentor and Sam needs a purpose in his life - through the end, as Sam becomes increasingly ill from being on the road. The plausibility of this bond has as much to do with the artist Dan Burr's sensitive and realistic portrayal of the characters as much as Vance's sharp writing. Burr's black and white drawings are as powerful at depicting emotion as they are of depicting period and place...
...Browne, who was a residential dean at Yale before coming to Harvard, also serves as a lecturer in the History and Literature program and is currently teaching a freshman seminar on the history of zoos. He had previously served as the Allston Burr senior tutor in Quincy House and the associate secretary to the University in the Office of Governing Boards...
...Burr, an investment banker and a Harvard overseer, died suddenly in January 1949 at the age of 83, according to an obituary in The Crimson...