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Jack Cole and Plastic Man: Forms Stretched to Their Limits Jack Cole and Plastic Man: Forms Stretched to Their Limits
by Art Spiegelman

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bookshelves: comix-novel
recommended for: golden age comic fans, Jack Cole

Eye-popping collection/biography on Plastic Man and his creator, Jack Cole. The book celebrates his work while investigating the reasons for his suicide by reprinting several disturbing images and stories that this seemingly happy-go-lucky cartoonist created.
The book is printed on slick paper while the comics are printed on crude pulp stock. Cole's suicide is made all the more disturbing by Chip Kidd's creepy collages. Highly recommended, and Hugh Hefner's thoughts of him are genuinely touching.

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message 1: by King Dinosaur
02/27/2008 08:40PM

610692 Oh yeah! I have this one! This is amazing stuff - Jack Cole was like no other.

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message 2: by Rebecca
08/04/2008 08:47AM

769803 I love Jack Cole's art. I had no idea his life was so crazy till I read this book.

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