Walt Kelly's Fables and Funnies: Dell Comics Stories 1942-1949

Title

en_US Walt Kelly's Fables and Funnies: Dell Comics Stories 1942-1949

Description

en_US This is a hardbound book (hard cover)

en_US First edition

en_US Walt Kelly; Compiled by David W. Tosh

Creator

en_US Kelly, Walt See all items with this value

Contributor

en_US Kelly, Walt

en_US Petty, John E. (Introduction)

Date

2016-08-26T13:39:10Z

en_US 2016-06

en_US 2016

Date Available

2016-08-26T13:39:10Z

Date Issued

en_US 2016

Abstract

en_US "As John Petty's introduction makes clear, this book looks beyond the usual fascination -- well deserved, of course -- with Walt Kelly's "Pogo" comic strips to a fruitful time when Kelly, after working on Disney's "Fantasia," "Dumbo," and "Pinocchio" and before developing "Pogo" worked for Western Publishing and Dell Comics. What we find here is a mixture of one-page presentations of nursery rhymes and longer narratives, most 6 to 20 pages in length, gathered here in six chapters. One sample coming close to some fable situations is "Elephunnies" (83-90), but the story goes through many stages. I think Kelly is at his best presenting and parodying traditional nursery rhymes. "Sing a Song of Sixpence" and other nursery rhymes are played straight with delightful cartoons on 141-150. A good example of playing with nursery rhymes is "Mix-up" on 116. Other than the pairing of fox and crow on 206, I can find no reference to or use of Aesopic fable materials here. But, oh, the visual artistry is exquisite! People reading "Fables" in the title here will wonder if there really are fables, and so I keep the book in the collection."

Identifier

en_US 10922 (Access ID)

uri

http://hdl.handle.net/10504/91520

Language

en_US eng

Publisher

en_US Dark Horse Books

en_US Milwaukie, OR

Subject

en_US PN6728.1.D4K45 2016 See all items with this value

en_US Walt Kelly See all items with this value

Type

en_US Book, Whole