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Now collected in an omnibus paperback, John Stanley's Melvin Monster is about a good-natured monster boy whose sweet personality belies his monstrous appearance. Melvin just wants to be good, go to school, and do as he is told. Melvin's sunny optimism makes him an oddball outcast in his Monsterville community, where he disappoints his parents, "Mummy" and "Baddy," with his irrepressible sunny disposition, and also continually escapes the wrath of their pet alligator Cleopatra who only wants to eat Melvin whole. Gag after gag, the acclaimed mid-century cartoonist Stanley sets Melvin up in fairly quotidian situations that spiral into hilarious ridiculousness, with a ferociously frenetic comedic timing.
Charmingly naïve, Melvin Monster draws its direct inspiration from the 1960s monster craze and the work of cartoonist Charles Addams and its television adaptation The Addams Family as well as The Munsters, however, Melvin Monster is all its own with Stanley's superior cartooning skills, melding pop colors, expressive lines, and funny jokes on full display.
Now collected in an omnibus paperback, John Stanley's Melvin Monster is about a good-natured monster boy whose sweet personality belies his monstrous appearance. Melvin just wants to be good, go to school, and do as he is told. Melvin's sunny optimism makes him an oddball outcast in his Monsterville community, where he disappoints his parents, "Mummy" and "Baddy," with his irrepressible sunny disposition, and also continually escapes the wrath of their pet alligator Cleopatra who only wants to eat Melvin whole. Gag after gag, the acclaimed mid-century cartoonist Stanley sets Melvin up in fairly quotidian situations that spiral into hilarious ridiculousness, with a ferociously frenetic comedic timing.
Charmingly naïve, Melvin Monster draws its direct inspiration from the 1960s monster craze and the work of cartoonist Charles Addams and its television adaptation The Addams Family as well as The Munsters, however, Melvin Monster is all its own with Stanley's superior cartooning skills, melding pop colors, expressive lines, and funny jokes on full display.
John Stanley was a journeyman comics scripter from the 1940s through the 1960s. He's most famous for his 14-year run on the Little Lulu comics published by Dell. He is considered by many comics historians to be the most consistently funny and idiosyncratic writer to ever work in comics. During his comics career he also wrote original scripts for the licensed characters Nancy and Sluggo, Tubby, Woody Woodpecker, Deputy Dawg, Clyde Crashcup, Choo Choo Charlie, Raggedy Ann and Andy, Oswald the Rabbit, Andy Panda, Krazy Kat, Alvin and the Chipmunks, and Nellie the Nurse.
Toward the end of his career, Stanley launched a series of teen-centric comics¿Thirteen Going on Eighteen, Around the Block with Dunc and Loo, and Kookie¿as well as his comical 1960s monster craze sendup, Melvin Monster. He left comics over a reprint royalty dispute sometime in the late 1960s never to return. He died in 1993.
| Erscheinungsjahr: | 2023 |
|---|---|
| Produktart: | Humor, Comics & Cartoons |
| Rubrik: | Belletristik |
| Medium: | Taschenbuch |
| Seiten: | 312 |
| Inhalt: | Kartoniert / Broschiert |
| ISBN-13: | 9781770466760 |
| ISBN-10: | 1770466762 |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
| Einband: | Kartoniert / Broschiert |
| Autor: | Stanley, John |
| Hersteller: | Drawn and Quarterly |
| Maße: | 174 x 133 x 22 mm |
| Von/Mit: | John Stanley |
| Erscheinungsdatum: | 24.10.2023 |
| Gewicht: | 0,418 kg |
John Stanley was a journeyman comics scripter from the 1940s through the 1960s. He's most famous for his 14-year run on the Little Lulu comics published by Dell. He is considered by many comics historians to be the most consistently funny and idiosyncratic writer to ever work in comics. During his comics career he also wrote original scripts for the licensed characters Nancy and Sluggo, Tubby, Woody Woodpecker, Deputy Dawg, Clyde Crashcup, Choo Choo Charlie, Raggedy Ann and Andy, Oswald the Rabbit, Andy Panda, Krazy Kat, Alvin and the Chipmunks, and Nellie the Nurse.
Toward the end of his career, Stanley launched a series of teen-centric comics¿Thirteen Going on Eighteen, Around the Block with Dunc and Loo, and Kookie¿as well as his comical 1960s monster craze sendup, Melvin Monster. He left comics over a reprint royalty dispute sometime in the late 1960s never to return. He died in 1993.
| Erscheinungsjahr: | 2023 |
|---|---|
| Produktart: | Humor, Comics & Cartoons |
| Rubrik: | Belletristik |
| Medium: | Taschenbuch |
| Seiten: | 312 |
| Inhalt: | Kartoniert / Broschiert |
| ISBN-13: | 9781770466760 |
| ISBN-10: | 1770466762 |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
| Einband: | Kartoniert / Broschiert |
| Autor: | Stanley, John |
| Hersteller: | Drawn and Quarterly |
| Maße: | 174 x 133 x 22 mm |
| Von/Mit: | John Stanley |
| Erscheinungsdatum: | 24.10.2023 |
| Gewicht: | 0,418 kg |
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