Tales Designed To Thrizzle Volume Two (TALES DESIGNED TO THRIZZLE HC) - Hardcover

Kupperman, Michael

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1606996150 ISBN 13: 9781606996157

Publisher: Fantagraphics Books, 2013

Synopsis

Tales Designed to Thrizzle Book Two, the second collection of the comic-book series, features two of Kupperman's recurring duos: Mark Twain and Albert Einstein and the crime-fighting team of Snake and Bacon. Crusty Quincy, M.E. makes his comic book debut. Also: The Jungle Princess battles rhino traders... A story of Broadway theatrics... Slightly cursed merchandise... Cockney grave robbers... Cowboy Oscar Wilde... McArf the Crime Dog takes a bite out of scum... The origin of The Hamanimal... Plus a photocomic starring comedian Julie Klausner: "Voyage To Narnia."

About this title

About the Author:

Michael Kupperman lives in New York City, where he continues to work on the ongoing Tales Designed to Thrizzle comic book series.

From Booklist:

Imaginations come no wonkier, no dafter than Kupperman’s. His idea of a crime-fighting, daring, dynamic duo à la Bruce and Dick (Batman and Robin) is Twain and Einstein (Mark and Albert)—that is, when it’s not a snake and a strip of bacon. When he thinks Odd Couple, it’s Oscar and Felix Dracula. His fearless exposé, “Moon 69, the True Story of the 1969 Moon Launch,” reveals that the astronauts were reprieved death-row convicts and that, besides stowaways, coroner Quincy, a ventriloquist, and Woodward and Bernstein were along for the ride. Between thrizzles, he advertises products (“slightly cursed merchandise,” “tiny animals to put in your pants”), job opportunities (“cockney grave robber”), and sister publications (Weird Sandwich Magazine, Show Me Your Wiener!). Kupperman draws all this strangeness in a manner that derives about equally from Chester Gould (Dick Tracy), 1950s romance comics, visual-pun cartoonist Glen Baxter, and art deco. He’s not afraid of, as he boasts on the cover of Tales #6, “too much color.” Fans of extreme comic incongruity should be thoroughly—what else?—thrizzled. --Ray Olson

About this edition

• Publisher: Fantagraphics Books
• Publication date: 2013
• ISBN 10: 1606996150
• ISBN 13: 9781606996157
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 144