Al Capps Little Abner: The Frazetta Years, 1958-59

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Summary: Brillliant Material Puts Modern Comics To Shame!
Review: Finally! Although one may quibble over some technical details ( the strips might have been printed a bit larger, and the color is a bit muddy in spots, ) there's no denying that publisher Denis Kitchen is performing a service to mankind by making these historic strips available again - for the first time in almost 50 years. Al Capp was at a creative peak in the 1950's, the heyday of his uber cool American satiric masterpiece: LI'L ABNER, and these classic Sunday page sequences don't disappoint. For many people, this was their first exposure to Frank Frazetta's work, and he managed to capture Capp's idiosyncratic style with the greatest of ease, adding many brilliant, characteristic nuances of his own along the way. With the demise of the late, lamented Kitchen Sink Press a few years back, I despaired of ever seeing this classic material back in print again - but here it is! It's impossible for gen X-ers weaned on tripe like Dilbert and Foxtrot to even begin to imagine what a rich source of art and humor the American comic strip used to be in the 30's, 40's and 50's. For anyone interested in re-visiting a Golden Age of this uniquely American art form, you couldn't ask for a better place to start than this. Hopefully the series will be continued before and beyond the Frazetta years - into the forties and sixties. And while we're at it, how about a color POGO Sundays collection, Mr. Kitchen?

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Summary: Hilarious but marred by poor reproduction
Review: I loved the material, but I wish the publishers had taken some care in reproducing the strips. Most look as if they are poor color copies of old Sunday papers. A very few appear to have been re-colored acceptably, but most are pretty darn sloppy.

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Summary: Head for the hills!
Review: This is the final volume in the series of reprints of Sunday Li'l Abner strips. They chose to focus on the years when Frank Frazzetta was drawing the majority of the Sunday strips. I wish they would have printed the entire run of the series, but that's their decision. Anyway, Li'l Abner was a great comic strip for most of it's run, and this time period was no exception. Anyone with an interest in old time comic strips should get this book.

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Summary: Head for the hills!
Review: This is the final volume in the series of reprints of Sunday Li'l Abner strips. They chose to focus on the years when Frank Frazzetta was drawing the majority of the Sunday strips. I wish they would have printed the entire run of the series, but that's their decision. Anyway, Li'l Abner was a great comic strip for most of it's run, and this time period was no exception. Anyone with an interest in old time comic strips should get this book.

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Summary: There's gold in them thar hills
Review: This is Volume 3 of Dark Horse's reprinting of the Li'l Abner Sunday pages drawn by Frank Frazetta. Li'l Abner is my all time favorite comic strip, so you know I loved this book. I just wish they would reprint all the Sunday pages, not just the ones that were drawn by Frazetta. Highly recommended to anyone interested in old comic strips.

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Summary: There's gold in them thar hills
Review: This is Volume 3 of Dark Horse's reprinting of the Li'l Abner Sunday pages drawn by Frank Frazetta. Li'l Abner is my all time favorite comic strip, so you know I loved this book. I just wish they would reprint all the Sunday pages, not just the ones that were drawn by Frazetta. Highly recommended to anyone interested in old comic strips.