https://www.tcj.com/john-stanleys-lost-little-lulu-stories-a-significant-find/
Tom Devlin of Drawn + Quarterly made a remarkable find in the papers of cartoonist Irving Tripp. See the results of this hitherto-unknown final team-up with John Stanley on a one-off 1970 issue of Marge's Little Lulu and read my short piece about it all at the link above.
As a bonus, here are the other stories from this issue--not featured on TCJ's site due to ethnic humor that isn't intended as malicious but didn't pass muster for widespread use:
As said in the essay, in Stanley's world, anyone who's pretending to be what they're not (or 'putting on airs') is risible. Male hubris is the endless font of Stanley's human comedy, and these boys acting out their weird masculine frontier fantasy (in an area when the cultural harm done to Native Americans wasn't discussed or acknowledged) set themselves up for the proverbial pie in face. ("Pass the peace banana" is a sublime line of dialogue, IMHO.) No offense is meant in any way with the presentation of this story; it's a part of this discovery and of historial importance.
Two harm-free one-pagers round out Stanley and Tripp's work for this last waltz with the LULU gang:
I hope you enjoy seeing these hidden-in-plain-sight stories that evaded notice for half a century plus! I hope to have some good news concerning the future of John Stanley's work in reprint editions sometime soon. Thank you as always for your interest in this blog!
2 comments:
Hi again Frank,
What a wonderful find! Thanks.
But you’re killing us with the suspense since you hint that the beautiful D&Q series just might be resumed.
Can you share any more details?
Of course if you’re not at liberty to share anything else feel free to ignore my request.
But it sure would be wonderful if we were treated to a few additional volumes of the series. Hopefully you would be handling the afterword again?
And again, thanks for your blog. There’s always something of interest to find.
Hi Luiz!
I haven't heard about the progress (or lack of progress) in reviving the D+Q series. With the stupid and senseless tariff threat against Canada, which I hope is just babble from the mouth of the orange doorstop, it may be difficult to conclude the series. We're all in suspense here as a deranged madman toys with tyranny and threatens us all. I would love to complete the series, and hope it can still happen. Everything is messed-up and uncertain right now. And nobody asked for it to be this way.
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