Archie and his pals have been comics' most celebrated teenage humor characters for over 60 years. Now for the first time, selections from Archie's worldwide syndicated newspaper strip are collected in this special volume. This black and white edition includes uproarious, daily strips from the mid-1990s.
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Craig Boldman has been a professional cartoonist since 1978. He has written and drawn over 10,000 greeting cards for such companies as Hallmark, American Greetings and Recycled Paper Products. He was a contract writer for Gibson Greetings for nearly a decade. In 1985, Boldman wrote the adventures of Superman for DC Comics, under the watchful eye of legendary editor, Julius Schwartz. He has since written a variety of other well-known characters, including "Big Boy," "Bazooka Joe," and strips based on two Disney TV shows: "Disney's Doug," and "Disney's Recess." Boldman currently writes the Jughead comic book for Archie Comics Publications, and has been writing the Archie newspaper strip since 1992, first in collaboration with artist Dan DeCarlo, and later with Henry Scarpelli, who continues drawing the strip today. Boldman is the co-author/illustrator of a humor book from Andrews McMeel Publishing, "Every Excuse in the Book: 718 Ways to Say 'It's Not My Fault!'"
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YOUR DAILY DOSE OF ARCHIE!,
This review is from: Archie Day By Day (Paperback)
I have to admit, I had no idea that Archie also appeared in newspaper strips, hundreds of them, all around the world, so this book came as a great surprise to me. Archie is one of the most enduring characters in all of comics. Created in 1941 in the pages of MLJ's Pep Comics #22, Archie has thrived for over sixty years. When nearly all the superhero comics disappeared in the late 40's, Archie and his ganged endured on through the prosperous 1950's, the rebellious 1960's, the eclectic 1970's, the "me first 1980's" and...what have we called the 1990's? Oh well, you get the idea.
Archie as a comic strip makes perfect sense. This wonderful 96 page trade paperback collects the Archie daily strips from 1994 through 1995 as told by Craig Boldman and Harry Scarpelli. These strips feature the familiar Archie art style that so many of us have grown up with over the decades. If you haven't read Archie in a long time it's fun to see how Archie has changed with the times as these strips feature things like Big screen TV's and CD's. Give it up to Archie for staying current! The strips in the book are 3 to 4 panel strips, each dated specifically. Most of the strips are self-contained stories but there are some that go over several days. Typically they are Archie "quickies" with a punch line at the end such as when Mrs. Grundy asks Archie to name three important people in "Western Civilization" and he responds with, "Roy Rogers, John Wayne, and Clint Eastwood." The book also hits upon all of the most famous themes from the years of Archie comics such as the Betty, Veronica and Archie love triangle, Jughead's laziness and appetite, Moose's stupidity, and Reggie's ego. Among the stories we see is the school year coming to an end as Mr. Weatherbee exclaims that the halls are hallowed again after the last student leaves the building. End of school leads to summer fun including days at the beach, baseball and cookouts. Jughead gets a job that lasts a whole two days (two days in the strip that is) and Arch and Jughead end up with jobs at an amusement park. In another ongoing story that runs over several days, Archie runs for class President and his horrified to learn he is running against Veronica. He tries everything to throw the election but wins anyhow! Just great stuff! I'm a big comic strip fan and Archie is a strip that really works well in a three to four panel format. If I have one minor complaint it's that there's no color strips. Strictly black & white but that's pretty trivial. I only wish my local papers carried it. Highly recommended!
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Comic magazine strip collection,
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I love this book for its strip archives, and wish a new collection of the originals by the creator (I can never remember his name, but I do know that he resided in Haverhill Mass where he got his inspiration via a special journal he kept on his high school activities)gets published along with a biographic introduction - so I can add it to my treasure of other collection books!
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Very nice book,
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I bought this for my friend for Christmas. She is an Archie fanatic and loved it. Great little book for adult or child alike.
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