Just received here at Rancid Raves Intergalactic Wurlitzer,
IDW’s elegant reprinting of Jack Kent’s
supremely fanciful King Aroo, which,
up until now, has been available only in an antique Doubleday reprint of 1953.
This brick-sized door-stopper re-issue (340 7x9-inch landscape-bound pages,
b/w; $39.99) is another of the publisher’s deliciously packaged Library of
American Comics — sparkling reproduction from the inaugural strip on November 13,
1950 through November 1, 1952, with delightful and informative introductory
material, both text by Bruce Canwell and accompanying illustrations (photos,
drawings, sketches, preliminary oeuvre). But it’s Kent’s
strip, a whimsical feast of puns, sight gags, and fast-footwork slapstick, all
transpiring in Kent’s
postage-stamp sized kingdom, Myopia, that will win you over.
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