Inside Woody Allen : Selections from the Comic Strip

by Stuart E. Hample

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Paperback

First published January 1, 1978

About the author

Better known as Stoo Hample, was an American children's book author, performer, playwright and cartoonist.
His "Children's letters to God" is an international best seller.

Reviews

[Matti Karjalainen · Rating 2 out of 5]

Stuart Hamplen "Inside Woody Allen: Selections from the Comic Strip" (Coronet, 1979) sisältää valikoiman sarjakuvastrippejä, jotka rakentuvat tutun koomikon perusohjelmiston ympärille, eli uskonnon, psykiatrian ja seksin ympärillä pyöritään. Ei tämä rehellisesti sanottuna hirveän hauskaa sanomalehtisarjakuvaa ole, vaikkka joukkoon on mahtunut muutama ihan hymyilyttävä strippi. Kuten tämä:

"Why do all the women in my life say I'm a lousy lover? How can they make a definitive judgment in only three minutes?"

[David Sidwell · Rating 2 out of 5]

Just not very funny.

I'm quite a big Woody fan but....

This is a collection of several comic strips that star the cartoon "Woody Allen".

But the one liners are largely weak, and don't translate to this media very well. There is the odd joke that raised a smile but generally, this isn't really worth your time.

Only cost me £1 in a charity shop, so worth it for curiosity value but frankly wouldn't pay much more than that. Bit of a waste of time really.

[Myron M · Rating 4 out of 5]

A quick read. Some decent laughs, I'll probably seek out more of this strip.

[Sammy · Rating 2 out of 5]

Curiosity value only. 'Woody Allen' as cultural figure was a dominant force in the 1960s and 1970s, first on the many live TV talk and game shows, and then through his 'early funny films'. If you want to talk about the rise of Jewish humour in everyday American discourse, about the move away from the staid and stoic view of masculinity pushed by the John Wayne set, about the brief spike of intellectual, auteur filmmakers from the late '60s to the early '80s (before the conglomerates got their way), Allen is pivotal to all of those discussions. So it's not too odd - it's still odd - to think that he got his own comic strip, which ran in over 60 countries at various points. Hample and a bunch of writers did the strip, although Allen was involved in the background. He's a notorious workaholic but the New York union rules were very clear, and he couldn't make movies on weekends; so among his weekend activities would be phone calls to Hample!

The thing is, of course, the syndicated stripped column is a very specific medium. Quite a few of the gags here simply don't feel funny, or feel funny in a ho-hum philosophical way. There are a few chuckles here and there. But these strips were designed to be seen as part of a varied diet of reading over one's breakfast cereal, or glimpsed at while waiting for the train, and occasionally cut out and framed for the cubicle if a particular line resonated with a particular person's vagaries. There are great strips, but this is closer to "Hagar the Horrible" than "Garfield".

[Nurture Waratah · Rating 1 out of 5]

It only took me fifteen minutes to finish reading this book, but they are fifteen minutes I will never get back. The comics in this book are not the slightest bit funny and I was bored out of my mind. Die hard fans might like it. I did not.

[Nighteye · Rating 1 out of 5]

This is a really bad try-to-be-funny-comic, I appriciate some of his other works but not this one, it wasen't funny jokes and it took only 10-15 minutes to read it and them I read all of it too.