Beetle Bailey Joins The Completists' Club
Many of you may shrug, but I was excited to hear that Beetle Bailey was going to be collected in its entirety. I doubt that I'll buy all of it, but I think the strips from the '50s and '60s are very funny! The drawings have a goofy energy, and I like the gags.It would appear that this isn't a Fantagraphics production (which would make sense, as they have a lot on their plate already), but the brainchild of a publisher called Checker. The cover design is just okay, so who knows what the scans of the strips will be like? Regardless, I'm a sufficiently big Bailey fan to take the plunge for the first book.
There's no release date as of yet, but you can pre-order it for $15.61 + shipping at Amazon.com.
Labels: beetle bailey, books, checker, comic, comic collection, comic strip, comic strip collection, mort walker
posted by Jeff Pidgeon at
8:41 PM
2 Comments:
Along with the '50s & '60s I would include the early '70s in covering Beetle Bailey's creative peak--nothing funnier than seeing Sarge's bare butt (which Mort Walker began exposing in the 70s).
IMO Mort puts the 'King' in King Features, one of the great masters of the art form!!!
one of the great masters of the art form!!!
"Master" feels a little strong to me, but I think he's a really good cartoonist!
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