Customer Reviews

No More Shaves: A Duplex Planet Collection

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I feel that Duplex planet is is in the same vain as Arthur Bradford's How's Your News. Elderly people, much like handicapped people, are often times vibrant,colorful, funny and moving parts of our culture. Greenberger, like Bradford, lets us hear thier voices. The zine, Duplex Planet, has always been something that I felt is beautiful and necessary. The special illustrated versions somehow added to the dimensions of the yarns by the inhabitants of the Duplex. No More Shaves is a wonderful collection brought to us by the wonderful publishers, Fantagraphics, that collects some of the greats in the world of alternative illustration. Highly recommended by the OilCan!

I was really intrigued by the premise of this collection and really wanted to love it. However, it just didn't work out for me. This had its amusing bits...the fact that many different artists contributed made it seem disjointed at times (the narrative being stories from elderly men in a nursing home didn't help with continuity, either *Smile* )

Still, it helped me pass the time. Some were truly sweet, some interesting, others scary and some dull...and then there were those that left me scratching my head. Oh well.

No More Shaves, as with all the Duplex Planet books, CDs, etc., is a unique journey stemming from the synergistic vision of David Greenberger and the residents with whom he connects so well and on so many levels--connects for the benefit of the residents, and for the benefit of anyone fortunate enough to cross the path of the Duplex Planet.

No More Shaves offers the added deminsion of the sort usually found in top-flight graphic novels--by some of the most esteemed practioners of the genre--to successfully bring the soulful conversations and musings into yet another organic medium.

To summarize: it's great. I love it.

A grown-up comic book collection - easier to maintain than the 15 separate issues. Great Dan Clowes, Wayno, Dean Roher drawings. You have to laugh, and feel good about it. This book honors these men's lives.