Little Lulu Volume 19: The Alamo And Other Stories [Paperback]

John Stanley (Author, Artist), Irving Tripp (Author)

Book Description

Series: Little Lulu

Containing the never-before-collected Marge's Little Lulu #88-93 in full color, this volume features masterworks by comic-book legends John Stanley and Irving Tripp that haven't been seen since they first hit spinner racks over fifty years ago! Perfect for anyone who loves to laugh, these timeless tales of Lulu Moppet, Tubby Tompkins, and the rest of the neighborhood kids will be appreciated by adults and children alike for the unrivaled quality of their craft and hilarity of their hijinks!

Product Details

• Paperback: 200 pages
• Publisher: Dark Horse (May 12, 2009)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1595822933
• ISBN-13: 978-1595822932
• Product Dimensions: 8.9 x 6 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 15.8 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #477,558 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Dark Horse resumes the series, May 13, 2009

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Christopher Barat (Owings Mills, MD, USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Little Lulu Volume 19: The Alamo And Other Stories (Paperback)

After wrapping up its numbered series of LITTLE LULU reprint volumes some time ago, Dark Horse steps beyond the black-and-white boundaries of THE LITTLE LULU LIBRARY and reprints LL #88-93 (1955-56) in color. Unlike the previous LITTLE LULU COLOR SPECIAL, the coloring here appears to be taken from the original comics (you can tell by the "stippled" faces and occasional boundary transgressions), which may tick off some sticklers. The quality of John Stanley's stories remains high, though Irving Tripp's artwork gets a little rougher towards the end (watch for the "non-pointy" noses to begin to appear) and Stanley's "story-telling stories" are now wholly reliant on Witch Hazel and Little Itch. The headlined story "The Alamo" (which concerns depredations done to Davy Crockett coonskin caps -- one of the few times, BTW, that Stanley seems to have paid the slightest attention to pop-culture fads going on around him) is actually buried in the middle of the book; I'd have preferred that Dark Horse continued the "tradition" of generic titles from the numbered issues. This will be a big summer for Stanley fans, as Drawn & Quarterly will soon begin issuing its JOHN STANLEY LIBRARY collections of Stanley's non-LULU work. The fact that Dark Horse will continue to release LULU collections is, of course, the best news of all.

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars John Stanley Rules, October 3, 2009

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W. Ravenel "yellow-dog democrat" (living with Maggie in Austin, TX) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Little Lulu Volume 19: The Alamo And Other Stories (Paperback)

John Stanley was one of the gods of comic storytelling and this collection is Exhibit A. After reading his stuff for Bushmiller's NANCY and some of the other work he did for the funny animal comics, I started reading this collection and it hit me right away: Stanley loves the Little Lulu characters. He infuses them with such depth and delineates them with such detail and humor and love that they live. I don't know of a single other comic character that you can re-read over and over with such pure pleasure as Stanley's Little Lulu stories. Brilliant, just brilliant.

3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars It's a Lulu!, June 5, 2009

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Gord Wilson "alivingdog.com" (Bellingham, WA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Little Lulu Volume 19: The Alamo And Other Stories (Paperback)

As her many fans know, Marge's Little Lulu circulated in the days of Dell, when comics were a dime, gradually easing their way up to a quarter. To get those comics nowadays in readable shape requires a bit of an outlay on E-Bay. Even new comics these days run around three bucks, only about thirty times more than in the dime days. No wonder the perennial reissues of popular lines garner so much attention.

The Another Rainbow hardback Little Lulu collection was slipcased with color covers, but even that had black and white internal art, as do most of the Dark Horse reissues. This full color collection is the odd duck, but not quite: Dark Horse's Little Lulu Color Special from 2006 preceded it. That paperback measured 10 X 6.5 inches, 208 pages, and retailed for 13.95. This new color collection is 9 X 6 inches, the same size as the black and white Dark Horse series, 200 pages, retailing at 14.95. It's the first in a series of color collections, which unlike the black and white books, are not numbered.

What readers probably are wondering is why isn't this rated a five? For one thing, if books have to be printed in China, we're not really making five star books. Apart from that, though, the printing is very grainy, unlike the pristine color special, which seemed to be a one-off and a class act all the way, itself now going the way of the E-bay auction.

The Color Special editors picked and chose its contents between Little Lulu #4 and #86. "The Alamo and Other Stories" contains comics 88-93. I suppose that Classic Media owns the rights to the modern Little Lulu design created by CINAR in Canada for the animated Little Lulu Show, which ran on HBO, but it's always disconcerting to see these designs used on reissued Little Lulu material. Here it's on both the front and back cover.

What one reads these comics for, of course, is the deft and humorous writing and drawing of John Stanley and artwork of Irving Tripp. The bottom line is here's the most reasonable way to get five entire Little Lulu comics, which will appeal to collectors, who may be filing away the originals in archival bags, but would yet like a copy to reread the stories (and gaze at the whimsical art). But be ye forewarned. Collectors who leave these comics around on the coffee table may find their guests becoming fans.Little Lulu Color SpecialLittle Lulu: The Bawlplayers And Other StoriesLittle Lulu: Miss Feeny's Folly And Other Stories