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...Little Nemo in Slumberland: So Many Splendid Sundays! by Winsor McCay and edited by Peter Maresca (Sunday Press) 100 years ago there appeared a full color comic strip unlike any seen before or since. "Little Nemo in Slumberland," by Winsor McCay, a pioneer of both comics and animation ("Little Gertie the Dinosaur"), followed the adventures of a little boy in the world of dreams until, at the end of every episode, he awakens. Some of the most visually inventive comics ever created, McCay's strips would put Nemo through diamond palaces, into the mouths of dragons, and as a giant...
...Finally exposing the work of a nearly forgotten master cartoonist, Walt & Skeezix reprints the first two years of Frank King's deeply American comic strip "Gasoline Alley" in the debut of what will (hopefully) be an annual reprint series for the next twenty years or so. Famous for characters who age in real time, like Walt, the dedicated bachelor and his adopted son Skeezix, the strip amounts to a daily diary of an American family as it goes through the depression, WWII, the post-war boom and beyond. This first volume features many car gags, but they soon give...
...moral compass spinning. Creator Jenji Kohan's writing put the new in nuance, as she drew not only Parker but her various upscale associates (including a surprisingly appealing Kevin Nealon as a stoner accountant) in a way that neither judged nor let them off the hook. The best comic suburban soap on TV, ounce for ounce...
...Comic-book sleaze executed with complete conviction...
...Producers,” itself an adaptation of his directorial debut. Brooks’ Broadway production won the most Tony Awards in history, and the star pairing of Lane and Matthew Broderick shone brightly onstage. A film version with the original cast is sure to be pure comic gold, right? Well, kind of. The uninspired adaptation loses it charm because of the flat direction from Broadway choreographer/debut director Susan Stroman and over-the-top performances from its leads.The magic of the musical doesn’t fully translate; the film looks and feels unnecessary, as if it was made...