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Sam's Strip: The Comic about Comics
by
Mort Walker
Sam's Strip broke fourth wall to a new level, playing with the basic elements of the cartoon form, experimenting with different art styles and featuring famous characters from other strips. Sam and his cartoonist assistant owned and operated the comic strip they inhabited. Krazy Kat, Dagwood, Charlie Brown and many other characters made walk-on appearances. Sam and his ass
...morePaperback, 191 pages
Published
December 15th 2008
by Fantagraphics Books
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It is a "metacomic" that ran for just over a year and a half in the early 60s, arguably ahead of its time, but also rather unfunny for the most part. The best parts of it are the walk-ons by characters from other comics, which are extraordinarily rendered. So much so that they highlight the sloppiness of the comic's main characters. I guess Dumas was a better mimic than an artist. But I definitely see why Fantagraphics has published this, it is too weird and unbelievable to allow t...more
The artist writes, "Some of these strips . . . look fine, others are just OK, while others fill me with dismay. A few are pretty bad." I agree. At its best, Sam's Strip was wonderfully inventive with a concept so flexible that Dumas and Walker could do nearly any type of gag. Much credit for that. The best of these are for the ages, but most are not the best. There are three Shakespeare references.
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Addison Morton Walker, more popularly known as Mort Walker, is an American comic artist, best known for creating the newspaper comic strips Beetle Bailey in 1950 and Hi and Lois in 1954.
Born in El Dorado, Kansas, he grew up in Kansas City, Missouri. He had his first comic published at the age of 11, and sold his first cartoon at 12. At 15 he worked as a comic-strip artist for a daily n...more
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Born in El Dorado, Kansas, he grew up in Kansas City, Missouri. He had his first comic published at the age of 11, and sold his first cartoon at 12. At 15 he worked as a comic-strip artist for a daily n...more
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