Betty Boop's Sunday Best: The Complete Color Comics, 1934-1936

by Max Fleischer, Bill Blackbeard

Nominated for an Eisner Award for Best Publication Design All the 1930's Betty Boop Sunday strips are collected here -- the first book to do so -- in full color Includes other ultra-rare color Sundays, Max Fleischer's Out of the Inkwell and a strip by Helen Kane herself (the model for Betty Boop). Cover by premiere Boop artist Leslie Cabarga.

Genres: Comics, Fiction, Humor

110 pages, Paperback

First published November 1, 1995

About the author

Animator and Creator of Betty Boop.

Reviews

[StrictlySequential · Rating 3 out of 5]

Boop and her director are the main characters who are in every Sunday one way or another. The film director is comic gold as he arranges all types of shoots for the others while Betty is simply interesting.

Her Aunt and little brother -both very annoying- take up too much of the spotlight. Betty's huge Aunt's has a "little person" as her beau and his appearances are the best of the three supporting characters.

The same gags are used constantly and the color is terrible but the spirit of the thing is what made it a fun enough read.

[LibbyZally · Rating 4 out of 5]

I don’t remember how or why I came across Betty Boop, but I have loved her since eight years old and find her to be a real treat. I donno when this book came out but it’s a lucky find.

[Gonzalo Oyanedel · Rating 2 out of 5]

El traspaso de la animación a las viñetas no fue tan feliz para Betty Boop. Víctima de la presión que terminó instaurando el Código Hays, su lavado de imagen terminó con la sensualidad de los primeros cartoons para transformarla en un personaje vano, simple y mucho menos interesante; defectos muy evidentes en un traspaso al papel no del todo efectivo y donde la falta de ideas se evidencia en el mal disimulado reciclaje de chistes.

¿Puntos buenos? El aporte histórico de una edición diseñada con esmero y la evolución sugerida de la tira, principalmente vista en el uso de secundarios que (sin las limitaciones impuestas a la ahora edulcorada Betty) terminan robando el protagonismo de este volumen que se resiste por su valor nostálgico.

[Charles · Rating 4 out of 5]

The way she was drawn, Betty Boop could be considered a form of soft porn. On the cover of this collection, she is lying in bed wearing some form of slip and approximately half her breast is exposed. In most captions, she is wearing a very short dress with a garter on her left thigh. The top of the dress looks like a set of mouse ears, as the only thing it covers is her breasts. Her muscular aunt Tillie swings her fists in many of the cartoons and Bubby the bratty baby also regularly appears. Given the state of modern cartoons, Betty is a bit of archaic character. Nevertheless, if you have seen some of her cartoons, you will probably enjoy reading these comics taken from the color Sunday pages.

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