Walt and Skeezix, Book 2 (Bk. 2)
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| Rating | : | 4.73 (550 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1896597998 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 400 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-03-13 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
From Booklist In the second volume collecting King's entire run Gasoline Alley, the focus shifts from the strip's original range of colorful characters to bachelor Walt Wallet and Skeezix, the foundling whose arrival on Walt's doorstep changed the strip from a comedy about the emerging automobile culture to the warmhearted, domestic "dramedy" that continues to this day. Blossom, the adoption hearing for Skeezix, the nationwide hunt in the wake of Skeezix's kidnapping by his mysterious birth mother, and a cross-country auto race between Walt and fellow car buff Avery--the first of the extended travel sequences that King undertook during his four-decade tenure and that allowed his visual brilliance to shine. Gordon FlaggCopyright © American Library Association. All rights reserved. Although King's drawing style is gaining in mastery to handle the strip's growing seriousness, the major progress here is in the story, as King injects drama and
Cartoonist/designer Chris Ware is the author of Jimmy Corrigan: The SmartestKid on Earth, Quimby the Mouse, and the Acme Novelty Datebook (D+Q, 2003).Ware was born in 1967, two years before Frank King's death.
Kenneth Edwards said I loved it. I love comics. This book is great. It doesn't put in some and leave some out. It puts them all in. Highly recommended if you love comics.I'm 60 this year and I have been reading Gasoline Alley all of my life, but I didn't nearly get in on the start. This book does not begin at then very start. It only has one of the very oldest. It starts with the year . "i enjoy Skeezix very much i will continue until have the" according to Dana Duvauchelle. i enjoy Skeezix very much i will continue until have the entire strip. pure americana I used to think there were only four classic comic strips - Lil Abner, Krazy Kat, Peanuts and Calvin and Hobbes. Gasoline Alley is as good as any of them, especially in its early years. Frank King's work can only be described as "gentle humor" and is as American as Will Rogers, Meredith Willson's Music Man and mom's apple pie. Oh, to be able to live in
King was the first cartoonist to have his characters age in real time and have modern story lines, a landmark conception for comic strips in the early twentieth century. There is a new eighty-page introduction by journalist Jeet Heer.. "Gasoline Alley clearly belongs in the cannon as a deeply American masterwork of cartooning." -TimeWalt and Skeezix: Book Two collects the Gasoline Alley strips by the great American cartoonist Frank King from 1923 to 1924