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...Though Lulu's adventures influenced the entire baby boomer generation of underground comix artists, the works have been mostly unavailable to new generations until now. This outrageous absence has finally been rectified now that Dark Horse has committed to reprinting the series as competitively priced $10 black and white paperbacks collections. Volume two of the projected 17 books, which appear bi-monthly and will reprint all the comics through issue #85, has just been released. For the same price as a manga book, "Little Lulu" draws you into a world that remains as funny and fresh as it was fifty...
...simplest of character designs. He does this chiefly through character expression. Though the faces are comprised of a few dots and lines, the range of emotion is rather astounding. Most famous are the expressions of distress or surprise whose accompanying exclamations - BAW! WAH! YOW! -- have become as iconic to comix as sweat beads and stink lines. Together, the Stanley/Tripp team formed one of the longest, most productive relationships in comic's history. Kids should not be without at least one volume...
...Manga" (Stone Bridge Press; 152 pages; $15), arrives as nothing short of a history-making revelation: America's (and the world's) first graphic novel. In spite of the Japanese title, author and main characters, "Four Immigrants" is completely American. First published in San Francisco (locus of the underground comix explosion 35 years later), Kiyama's book focuses on that fundamentally American experience - the life of the immigrant. Told with naturalism, humor and a sharp social conscience, it reads as a remarkable primary historical document with surprising resonances to modern times...
...Combining an account of actual lives in the context of world history, yet told with the charm and humor of a Sunday comic strip, Yoshitaka Kiyama's "The Four Immigrants Manga" should not be missed. A book to be enjoyed by readers of history and comix, this once-lost artifact works as both a delightful read and a reminder of where Americans come from...
...Social satires tend to be pretty crude affairs in the world of comix. Cartoonists tend to succumb to the genre's temptations of broad, easy caricature. Posy Simmonds avoids this with her particularly English dry wit. Rich with memorable characters, literary depth, cutting humor and pictorial panache, "Gemma Bovery" sets a new standard for intelligent cartoon satire in graphic novel format...