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Tuesday, July 19, 2005
Recommended reading
From an L.A. Weekly piece that also appears in tomorrow's Tales Designed to Thrizzle.
There are a lot of things you could buy if you're going to the comic book store tomorrow. You could certainly do a lot worse than picking up the latest Love & Rockets and The Goon books. But if you want quality, and I do mean quality, you will have to spend some of that filthy lucre on Michael Kupperman's Tales Designed to Thrizzle.
SDCC might not have had any big debuts like Flight was last year but I can assure that one book appeared there that knocked my socks clean off (and my socks are pretty sturdy). I had enjoyed Kupperman's Snake 'n' Bacon's Cartoon Cabaret but having Kupperman take full advantage of the comic book form was really pleasing to me. The book featured many short strips long enough to give you a great joke and are never in danger of overstaying their welcome. The addition of text pieces expanded the humor, such as the in-depth look at sex blimps. In the "Old People's Section" Kupperman tries some new things with strips done in high contrast and indulging in the surreal. I was impressed by Kupperman's talents all over again.
This book takes the template of what Chris Ware has done in Acme Novelty Library by going for a feel that seems out of some forgotten decade. Instead of the dark emotional areas Ware goes, this book is done in the same spirit of silly humor like Monty Python and Mr. Show. Read this book and see a great cartoonist become even greater.
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