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Sto caricando le informazioni... Walt and Skeezix: Book Four: 1927-1928di Frank King
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Iscriviti per consentire a LibraryThing di scoprire se ti piacerà questo libro. Attualmente non vi sono conversazioni su questo libro. As Skeezix turns 7, this gentle strip takes an unusual turn when Skeezix's birth father, having learned that Skeezix was raised all these years by strangers, kidnaps him and later sues in court to overturn the adoption ruling. At first he is successful, but international turmoil prevents him from taking custody, and later the Supreme Court overturns the ruling and returns Skeezix to Walt and Phyllis. And in a long sequence that carefully avoids the words pregnancy and childbirth, and more and more camouflages Phyllis' profile, we are rewarded with the birth of Corky, which would make him about 82 in the current strip (to Walt's 110). In other events, Walt goes to work for Mr. Wicker, the gang goes to Houston for the Democratic Convention, and Walt and Phyllis take in his 15-year old cousin Lora.Generally the everyday stuff of family life; King's skill and warm humor are such that it is always charming and endearing. This is one of the great American strips, well-presented here and intelligently annotated. My only quibble, again, is that the font size of the annotation text is way too small for the age of most of the eyes that are probably reading these books. nessuna recensione | aggiungi una recensione
Appartiene alle SerieWalt And Skeezix (book 4)
THE LONG-AWAITED NEW VOLUME FROM THE CRITICALLY ACCLAIMED ARCHIVAL COLLECTION OF FRANK KING'S CLASSIC STRIP In this fourth volume ofWalt and Skeezix, the newly married Walt Wallet settles into domestic life with his wife, Phyllis, and their adopted son, Skeezix, but their family bliss is soon disrupted by a man who claims to be Skeezix's natural father. A long custody battle erupts, raising questions as to the importance of blood ties compared with a loving environment. Later, Walt and Phyllis have to deal with all the dilemmas of a young couple's life as their family starts to unexpectedly expand. This is the very stuff of life--payingthe bills, nursing a sick child, finding the right job while spending quality time with family--expertly explored with cartoonist Frank King's unerring fidelity to reality. In unfolding the drama of the Wallet family's life, King displays his full mastery of long and complex narratives, which made his work a forerunner to the modern graphic novel. In his introduction to the series, Jeet Heer explores King's storytelling prowess and links the concerns of the strip with changes in American culture in the 1920s. Lavishly illustrated with King's family photos, the book is designed by Chris Ware, whose elegant and detail-rich books have revolutionized the graphic novel field. Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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