Nu, hvor vinder oldies kurator forlaget Fantagraphics langt om længe er færdige med George Herriman’s legendariske, historiske “Krazy Kat” søndagssider, og vi stadig venter på de komplette dagsstriber af denne verdens bedste tegneserie, vil de gode folk på Fanta se på andre, mindre kendte, nærmest glemte mesterværker af pantheon tegneren George Herriman. I har måske set eksempler herpå fra amazon’s print-on-demand service, Createspace, men med “Stumble Inn” til august får vi de bedste tearsheets, der kan opdrives i USA, fra den nu afdøde filantrop og storsamler Bill Blackbeard’s enorme samling, selve den amerikanske comic strip arv bevaret for eftertiden. Bogen bliver på 240 sider i farver og sh, og samler hele det mere end tre år lange run af humor striben “Stumble Inn”. “Stumble Inn” gik i de amerikanske aviser fra 30/10/1922 til 9/1/1926, midt i Herriman’s arbejde med hovedværket “Krazy Kat”. For Herriman var en travl herre, der ofte havde gang i flere serier på samme tid. og man regner med, at han nåede at skabe mindst 27 serier i sin glorværdige karriere. Fanta’s mission er med tiden at udgive alt, hvad George Herriman har lavet af comic strips. Tak for kaffe!
George Herriman’s Stumble Inn [Paperback]
George Herriman (Author)
Product Details
- Paperback:240 pages
- Publisher:Fantagraphics (August 14, 2012)
- Language:English
- ISBN-10:1606995545
- ISBN-13: 978-1606995549
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Book Description
Never-before collected masterpieces from the creator of Krazy Kat.
George Herriman is legendary for his Krazy Kat series (whose Sunday strips Fantagraphics finished collecting last year), but not many people realize that even during Krazy’s 30-year-run, Herriman branched out and produced several other comic-strip features, any one of which would have landed him in the pantheon of all-time greats.
Stumble Inn, which ran daily for over three years (from 1922 to 1926), featured humans rather than animals and centered around the comedic occurrences in a hotel populated by one Uriah Stumble and his dysfunctional group of lodgers. (If you always wanted to see Herriman’s avant-la-lettre version of Fawlty Towers, this is what you’ve been waiting for.) Less dreamy and surreal than Krazy Kat’s desert-bound romantic triangle, Stumble Inn is a more robust, “classical” comic strip from the 1920s with wisecracks and pratfalls galore, all of course delineated with Herriman’s usual charm and elegance, and his slangy/poetic dialogue.
Reproduced from the best newspaper tear sheets available (from the legendary Bill Blackbeard San Francisco Academy of Comic Art), buttressed with fascinating historical essays and even-more-rare art, Stumble Inn is yet another Herriman masterpiece, and a crucial addition to any classic comic-strip fan’s library.
Black & white with some color