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1. Sick Sick Sick by Jules Feiffer - The books that I'm going to review at this point in the year are going to be short. The rules of this exercise is that I started reading the books in 2021 and finished them in 2021 so on the 19th day that's pretty standard but I think in March I'm going to be reviewing books due to the fact that I'm reading some pretty long books from 2020 including The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire and I think it's called Albino Tiger? No. I'm not getting up to look at it. I will find it and reference it later. It's about a punk lesbian in the South learning how to be a punk lesbian. In the first chapter her mother gets eaten by a tiger. It's the Albino something - Albino Album?
Anyhow Jules Feiffer made these cartoons in the 1950s and 60s and they still hold up. Mostly they are about conformists, poets, hipsters, phonies and women dancing to spring. The lines are fluid and the jokes are still fresh. I remember an interview with Feiffer where he stated that he was disappointed that his humor still held up because he wanted the world to change and improve. Oddly enough I'm also trying to read Pogo which I do not find funny at all. Sometimes I kind of get what they are doing but mostly it's just not doing it for me. Bloom County is surprising me because I remember really liking these comics when I was a kid. And most aren't terribly funny. There are some that seems a bit 80s - like an Ebony magazine being referenced with the punchline that Ivory is racist. Like way to ignore white supremacy Berke. But yeah. Jules Feiffer is cool.
2. Frankenstein by Mary Shelley adapted by Otto Binder and Nardo Cruz - I think this is the first adaptation of Frankenstein that I've ever read. It's not very good and it's interesting to think that I have read this book many times. It doesn't have the flashback structure. It actually tries to put everything in regular timeline. Like it gives you Frankenstein's family without the framing device. And then it just goes to the Frankenstein story after Victor makes him. Adam Frankenstein (fuck you that's his name) is drawn like Boris Karloff in the movies. However, this is the first time I realized that there was a second brother. Is there a second brother in the book? I read the book 5 times at least and Ernest Frankenstein has eluded me. So that's going to be a rich kid - his family is dead. Like all dead. Because of his crazy brother. But is he in the book? Holy shit I wish I could remember.
Of course, he's like that brother that doesn't do anything and Victor never references him if he is actually in the book.
3. Ripley's Believe it or Not Ghost Stories and Plays by anonymous - yeah this is total bullshit. The problem with Ripley's is that it loves to print stories that have very little veracity. Did Umberto I, king of Italy meet a restaurant owner whose life was the same as his in every detail to the point of dying on the same day? Google it and find out that the story is completely unattributed. A lot of these stories rely on convoluted coincident. Like the will is found in a book by the ACTUAL HEIR. These stories are too convoluted to be true and too boring to be interesting.
Without Jack Palance, Ripley can fuck off.
Anyhow Jules Feiffer made these cartoons in the 1950s and 60s and they still hold up. Mostly they are about conformists, poets, hipsters, phonies and women dancing to spring. The lines are fluid and the jokes are still fresh. I remember an interview with Feiffer where he stated that he was disappointed that his humor still held up because he wanted the world to change and improve. Oddly enough I'm also trying to read Pogo which I do not find funny at all. Sometimes I kind of get what they are doing but mostly it's just not doing it for me. Bloom County is surprising me because I remember really liking these comics when I was a kid. And most aren't terribly funny. There are some that seems a bit 80s - like an Ebony magazine being referenced with the punchline that Ivory is racist. Like way to ignore white supremacy Berke. But yeah. Jules Feiffer is cool.
2. Frankenstein by Mary Shelley adapted by Otto Binder and Nardo Cruz - I think this is the first adaptation of Frankenstein that I've ever read. It's not very good and it's interesting to think that I have read this book many times. It doesn't have the flashback structure. It actually tries to put everything in regular timeline. Like it gives you Frankenstein's family without the framing device. And then it just goes to the Frankenstein story after Victor makes him. Adam Frankenstein (fuck you that's his name) is drawn like Boris Karloff in the movies. However, this is the first time I realized that there was a second brother. Is there a second brother in the book? I read the book 5 times at least and Ernest Frankenstein has eluded me. So that's going to be a rich kid - his family is dead. Like all dead. Because of his crazy brother. But is he in the book? Holy shit I wish I could remember.
Of course, he's like that brother that doesn't do anything and Victor never references him if he is actually in the book.
3. Ripley's Believe it or Not Ghost Stories and Plays by anonymous - yeah this is total bullshit. The problem with Ripley's is that it loves to print stories that have very little veracity. Did Umberto I, king of Italy meet a restaurant owner whose life was the same as his in every detail to the point of dying on the same day? Google it and find out that the story is completely unattributed. A lot of these stories rely on convoluted coincident. Like the will is found in a book by the ACTUAL HEIR. These stories are too convoluted to be true and too boring to be interesting.
Without Jack Palance, Ripley can fuck off.
