Kurt Cobain & Mozart Are Both Dead: Leonard & Larry 2 (Leonard & Larry Ser. 2) [Paperback]

Tim Barela (Author)

Product Details

• Paperback: 90 pages
• Publisher: Palliard Pr (August 1996)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1884568041
• ISBN-13: 978-1884568046
• Product Dimensions: 7.8 x 5.1 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,522,073 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Continuously hilarious, October 16, 2001

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This review is from: Kurt Cobain & Mozart Are Both Dead: Leonard & Larry 2 (Leonard & Larry Ser. 2) (Paperback)

Tim Barela's second collection of Leonard & Larry follows where the first left off. This collection continues to follow the strangely normal lives of this loving couple and their expanding, sometimes erratic, family. Barela continues to show that life as a couple, whether gay or straight, is pretty much a universal constant -- ups, downs, fights, reconciliation, funny, sad, etc. It tackles dating, marriage, children, ghosts, tragedy, and a hilarious visit to Heaven. Whatever your orientation, you'll find that you can relate to what's going on. If you've read "Domesticity Isn't Pretty," you must read this one. If not, don't be surprised if the ghosts of Tchaikovsky and Brahms pay you a visit...

3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Tim Barela deserves a medal, December 5, 2004

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Tim Brough "author and music buff" (Springfield, PA United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Kurt Cobain & Mozart Are Both Dead: Leonard & Larry 2 (Leonard & Larry Ser. 2) (Paperback)

With his second anthology of the "Leonard and Larry" comics, Tim Barela proves that he is one of the very few artists of a Gay comic strip who gets it right on a regular basis. Then again, any person who followed Leonard Goldman and Larry Evans through their decade long run in Frontiers magazine could have told you that. Yet, if you had to show a gay comic to any members of your straight family, how many do you think would "get it"? Leonard and Larry often make their point without being so "out" as to miss their target, and that is what marks Barela's true strength as a humorist/artist. Where most gay comics tend to be overtly clever excuses for all things pink and triangular, Leonard and Larry could be a humor story about any pair of American Marrieds. These two characters have more depth than most TV sitcoms, and indeed, it is Barela's infusion of dimensionality and warmth into all his characters that makes this series so memorable.

In "Kurt Cobain and Mozart Are Both Dead," the humor has as much grounding in real life as any TV script; Leonard and Larry have an near marriage breakup, Jim and Merle have a spat over the too zealous female, and in this book's best sequence, Larry's near death experience during the birth of his daughter in-law Debbie's second child. The morphing of the angel should be required reading for every 700 Club viewer who threw money at their TV screen every time Pat Robertson spewed an (anti) family values rant at them.

That Barela has his characters make their points about gay life without having to toss in the bubble butt tight jeans clone or the limp wristed disco bunny is testimony to the ongoing brilliance of the Leonard and Larry story boards. These two gents are men behaving normally, they just happen to be gay. Can you name any gay entertainment medium that utilizes more stable monogamous relationships? It's the kind of scenario everyone screams the gay world needs presented in entertainment more often, and it's been in a comic book all along.