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...Current Affair, is just one of half a dozen newcomers elbowing their way into a field already crowded with such long-distance runners-off-at-the-mouth as Phil Donahue, Oprah Winfrey, Geraldo Rivera, Sally Jessy Raphael, Joan Rivers and the irrepressible Regis & Kathie Lee. Stand-up comic Jenny Jones' new daytime show started off with a bigger initial lineup of stations than any syndicated talk show in history. Montel Williams, a former naval-intelligence officer and motivational speaker, emcees an issue-oriented program currently being test- marketed in 15 cities. Veteran game-show host Chuck Woolery chats with Hollywood...
Drawing upon U.S. and international sources, the anthology's contents run the gamut from Spain's most popular funny, "Firmin and Piker," by Javier Mariscal; to the dark ruminations of New York's Art Spiegelman, author of the Auschwitz comic book Maus. Although somewhat skimpy in its explanations of the represented artists' forebearers and influences, the book provides a well-planned overview of different comics' genres...
...perhaps the most absurdly gruesome update of a classic '50s comic, Howard Cruse regrets "Raising Nancies." The story twists the classic comic-book mail order ad, for pet Sea Monkeys. The narrator details how the humanoid, but mindless, Nancy creatures grew from play-things into nuisances and how he finally sold them to the "Acme Used Nancy Collection Service." The narrator rues his error when he learns that the Nancies end up in concentration-camp "Nancy Farms," where their "pelts" are harvested for fur coats...
...skimp on elegance at times, but in doing so they reach down one's thoat and throttle one's guts. The expressive work in these cartoons leaves the reader breathless: breathless with laughter, with horror, with pain and with amazement. Some of them will deserve a place in the comics pantheon with the cartoons of Walt "Pogo" Kelly, one of the greatest stylists of all comic history...
This story of life's monotony could have been written by many an American. Kaplan does not distinguish himself by challenging fiction's boundaries, although he delivers an adequate story. Frank's thought patterns are remarkably believable. His nature is very familiar, except he, like the comic strip character, is a born loser...