I love it-and now I really want a Hoppy the Flying Marvel Bunny paper-airplane kit. Allow me to quote the back cover: “An unprecedented assortment of Shazam collectibles is gathered together for the first time in one volume.” If you like superhero ephemera, this is a book for you. Captain Marvel (now known as Shazam for trademark reasons) was never in the comic strips, but Chip Kidd and Geoff Spear’s Shazam: The Golden Age of the World’s Mightiest Mortal(Abrams ComicArts, $35) is a typically lovely Chip Kidd book. Surprise comic strip superstar and former lawyer Stephan Pastisvisited Politics & Prose this fall to promote Pearls Freaks the #*%# Out: A (Freaky) Pearls Before Swine Treasury (Andrews McMeel, $17) and fans lined up for four-and-a-half hours at his signing. Think Like a Shark(Andrews McMeel, $13) is his 17th Sherman’s Lagoon collection.
Jim Toomey (originally from Alexandria, Va.) is a big ocean environmentalist, and recently featured National Geographic explorer Sylvia Earle in his comic strip. Noted cartoonists Cathy Guisewite and Stan Lee write the introductions to the respective volumes. Titan is also reprinting American comic strips in hardcover: Hagar the Horrible: The Epic Chronicles 1977-1978 by Dik Browne is the fourth book in the series, and Beetle Baily: The Daily & Sunday Strips 1966 by Mort Walker is the second (both from Titan, $20) and both are worthy collections that document the strips’ strongest years. These stories originally appeared between 19, and Colvin’s art is less accomplished, especially in the faces, than that of main Blaise artist Romero. For those who prefer his artwork, Modesty Blaise: Lady in the Dark just came out, and boasts the added attraction of Modesty debunking the claims of a naked female time traveler. Modesty Blaise is one of my favorite adventure strips, and Death in Slow Motionby Peter O’Donnell and Neville Colvin (Titan, $20) is another worthwhile volume in this excellent reprint project. I’m amazed that the strip has been going for two decades, and that its main characters, Wanda and Darryl, went from one to three kids in that period of time.
One of this year’s most impressive is BBXXby Rick Kirkman and Jerry Scott (AndrewsMcMeel, $25), a large hardcover compendium of 20 years’ worth of Baby Blues-complete with comments from both creators. Read Part 1 here.Īnyone mourning the gradual shrinking and axing of comic strips in newspapers should consider the comic-strip reprint collection. In which we take a look at a great big pile of review copies of comic books, cartoons, and graphic novels.
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