Lulu Takes a Trip (Little Lulu, Vol. 5) [Paperback]

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

Book Description

Publication Date: March 15, 2005

Dark Horse is tempted to call Little Lulu the "comeback comic" of the year, but truth be told, Lulu's been a treasured part of the entertainment canon for years! Dark Horse Books is proudly presenting the complete library of classic Marge's Little Lulu comics in a reader-friendly series of affordable paperback volumes. A rascally but good-hearted seven-year-old with an endless supply of sass, oodles of smarts, and a wild imagination, Lulu is truly one of a kind.

Editorial Reviews

From Booklist

The second helping (after Lulu Goes Shopping [BKL F 15 05]) of the classic comic book Little Lulu has two flaws. Two pages appear out of sequence (America's librarians cluck: "That's what happens without pagination"). But they aren't radically displaced, and in any event, every Lulu story by Stanley is indispensable to comics history. Little Lulu, you see, is the font of the everyday in comics. What's more quotidian than the bedrock of this evergreen--kids playing? Even at its most fanciful, when Lulu tells stories to nagging little Alvin, Stanley's masterpiece stays within the bounds of a smart child's ordinary knowledge. Furthermore, Lulu and friends' manners among themselves and beyond adult oversight are utterly natural: after a pretty good story, Lulu asks Alvin what he thinks of it; he nonchalantly blurts out, "Not so hot." Away from TV (Lulu here is pre-tube), maybe kids, even bigger ones, are still this intelligently innocent. Or so sixties hippies hoped, and one of them adapted the Little Lulu weltanschauung to brilliantly satirize those hopes: R. Crumb. Ray Olson
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Product Details

• Paperback: 200 pages
• Publisher: Dark Horse (March 15, 2005)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1593073178
• ISBN-13: 978-1593073176
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 6 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 11.2 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #180,733 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
  • #40 in Books > 4-for-3 Books > Comics & Graphic Novels > Publishers > Dark Horse

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5 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Wonderful Read with Printing Errors, March 4, 2005

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J. Draper Carlson (Richmond, VA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Lulu Takes a Trip (Little Lulu, Vol. 5) (Paperback)

I love having the chance to read this material in a new package. It's clever, funny, and well cartooned. Unfortunately, in this volume, two of the stories later in the book have pages printed out of order. Otherwise, I'd give it five stars.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Dennis The Menace, eat your heart out...!, February 6, 2007

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DJ Joe Sixpack (...in Middle America) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Lulu Takes a Trip (Little Lulu, Vol. 5) (Paperback)

I recently finished plowing through the collected paperback editions of the classic 1940s/1950s "Little Lulu" comics, and wanted to put in my vote... yes! yes! yes! True, it's a little disappointing that the strips are reprinted in black-&-white and not in the original color versions, but the real genius of these works is in the draftsmanship of artists John Stanley and Irving Tripp, and once you get onto their wavelength, even these half-size B&W reprints are a pure delight. They can say so much with such economy -- a single panel of Lulu's unbridled mischief can have you laughing your head off, and here, in this multi-volume collection, you've got a real treasure trove of some of the best graphic-art humor produced in the 20th Century. Great stuff, highly recommended, and major kudos to Dark Horse for making this artwork both available and affordable.