Mad About Comic Strips
by The Usual Gang of Idiots
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Author: The Usual Gang of IdiotsEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2003-12-01
ISBN: 1401200958
Number of pages: 128
Publisher: Mad
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Book Review: 2/3s of a really great book....
Summary: 4 Stars
This is worth buying for the first 2/3s of the book: older material from MAD that totally eviscerates the daily comic strips with great precision and affection. The parodies of Little Orphan Annie and Maggie and Jiggs (with truly disturbing work from Krigstein), Mandrake the Magician, Popeye, Katzenjammer Kids, Gasoline Alley, and others are priceless work from Wally Wood and Bill Elder and several others-- some of the best and funniest stuff that's ever been in MAD. But everything after the color section in the middle is almost completely expendable: newer material that mocks newer daily strips that don't merit the attention. I mean really: is it worth making fun of Garfield? BC? Beetle Bailey? The Family Circus? The older material works because the strips from the 20s to the 50s had identities forged over decades, with vast readerships. The newer strips are pale imitations of the old chestnuts, and the MAD parodies and one-panel gags are likewise lukewarm.
So: buy this for the sterling stuff from MAD's first ten years, but skip the unworthy last 40 pages, a sad mockery of what's become the most disposible page of the newspaper....
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