Into the Eisenshpritz
Elif Batuman: Superheroes, 10 April 2008
Life, in Pictures: Autobiographical Stories
by Will Eisner.
Norton, 493 pp., £18.99, November 2007,978 0 393 06107 9 Show More
by Will Eisner.
Norton, 493 pp., £18.99, November 2007,
Misery Loves Comedy
by Ivan Brunetti.
Fantagraphics, 172 pp., £15.99, April 2007,978 1 56097 792 6 Show More
by Ivan Brunetti.
Fantagraphics, 172 pp., £15.99, April 2007,
“... 1960s, the comic-book landscape was being altered by the ‘underground comix’ movement, led by Robert Crumb. Among Crumb’s most popular creations are the suave adventurer Fritz the Cat (whose conquests include a female ostrich and his own sister) and Mr Natural, a fountainhead of exasperatingly vague advice, outfitted in a Tolstoyan beard and ... ”