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Ellen DeGeneres has been cast as God in a remake of the 1977 George Burns film Oh, God! But the comic will stay down-to-earth for her talk show, resuming Sept...
...wartime indiscretions. He was granted a knighthood six weeks before he died. Today the Oxford English Dictionary contains 1,600 Wodehouse citations, and scholars dissect his writings for a depth that isn't really there. What is there, as fans can attest, is a timeless, effervescent cocktail of comic juxtapositions, smoothly musical prose and exuberant generosity. "Behind the Drones and the manor house weekends," writes McCrum, "is a sweet, melancholy nostalgia for an England of innocent laughter and song." An England that Wodehouse, after his thoughtless blunder, never saw again...
Spiegelman's first book, Breakdowns (1977; now out of print), collected early works that used the medium's history to wildly play with the form. One series of strips took a single melodramatic panel of a 50's romance comic and extended the lines past the border, recontextualizing the scene in various, absurd speculations. Comprised of ten broadsheet-size strips by Spiegelman with an addendum of selected turn of the century newspaper strips, In the Shadow of No Towers takes a similar, (co)mixed-up approach. Any one of Spiegelman's pages will use a multiplicity of styles to simultaneously...
...newspaper comic motif also smartly matches the form of No Towers. The German newspaper that originally commissioned the project gave Spiegelman an unheard-of deal in these days of ever-shrinking funnies: an entire full-color page with total editorial freedom. The book nearly replicates their original monumental size on super thick cardstock paper. You read each strip horizontally across two pages but thanks to the clever binding, each strip lies flat, without an annoying gutter in the middle...
...that Spiegelman found particularly prescient to the events of a century later. One episode of Winsor McCay's Little Nemo in Slumberland has Nemo and his pals as giants, toppling over the buildings of New York. Only 36 pages, the book amounts to little more content than an average comic. Frustratingly, the author's introduction tantalizes us with synopses of strips he didn't get to. Just do them, man! You close the book feeling it lacked development...