Mondo Popeye

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Summary: Blow Me Down!
Review: Bobby London was born to be the artist/writer of Popeye. King Features' brilliant editor Jay Kennedy knows this, and hired him for the job. London's background was in underground comic books, and he was a popular contributor to National Lampoon. London's work always showed his interest in early comic strips, especially E. C. Segar, creator of Popeye. The strips collected in this book, while great, aren't as good as his later work on Popeye. Eventually he started to tell longer, more ambitious story arcs -- but when the strip began to deal with somewhat controversial topics, London ran afoul of the King Features' marketing people, who brought his run on the strip to an end. As far as I know, this volume is the only collection of London's Popeye, and as such is a treasure.