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Summary: Yikes! These Tykes are Fantastic!
Review: Take "Our Gang" and add Universal Studios' cast of famous monsters including Frankenstein and Dracula, then add the love and skill of the cartoonist genius Steven Weissman, and you have "Don't Call Me Stupid" -- Buy this book and find out why his contemporaries are calling him one of the Best!
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Summary: Applie Pie and Sour Cabbage
Review: You got Lil Bloody (who is sort of a Hispanic Eddie Munster). You got Pullapart Boy (it don't take a genius - you touch him, he falls apart). You got Dead Boy (he has crosses where his eyes are cos they've been - you know? - sown up). Later you've got X-Ray Spence (he can see THROUGH stuff) and Medusa Girl (who has a kinda crush on X-Ray Spence because he doesn't get turned to stone by her, he can - you know - see RIGHT INSIDE HER). They fight, they spook people, they walk about and get bored. It's childhood but - (seriously) not. (It's The Crazy Gang soundtracked by Sparklehorse.)The art is sort of scratchy (it looks like it's been screen printed from scratched and scored linoleum), full of hard lines and mono washes, but it suits the scratchy and uncomfortable nature of what you see - Chubby bullies the kids, Lil Bloody takes bites out of people, Pullapart Boy - well, he gets pulled apart. (As, from time to time, do the stories themselves - Weissman does not always get it just right or just so - sometimes you lose interest, a little, or flick ahead to see how long a particular story lasts.) It's gruesome and creepy and about as wholesome as apple pie stuffed with sour cabbage, but if you like Edward Gorey you'll get a kick out of this.
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