Description
| Author/Contributor(s): | Whitney, Ogden; Nadel, Dan; Finck, Liana; Santoro, Frank |
| Publisher: | New York Review Comics |
| Date: | 10/1/2019 |
| Binding: | Paperback |
| Condition: | NEW |
By turns amusing and disturbing, this collection of 1960s romance comic strips provides a provocative window into male-female power dynamics as conceived by one of mid-century America’s foremost comic book artists.
Ogden Whitney was one of the unsung masters of American comics. He isperhaps best remembered for co-creating the satirical superhero HerbiePopnecker, also known as the Fat Fury, but his romance comics of thelate 1950s and 1960s may be even more unique. In Whitney’s hands, thestandard formula of meet-cute, minor complications, and final blissfulkiss becomes something very different: an unsettling vision ofmidcentury American romance as a devastating power struggle, a form ofintimate psychological warfare dressed up in pearls and flannel suburban lawns and offices to rocket labs and factories, his menand women scheme and clash, dominate and escape. It is darkly hilarious,truly terrifying—and yes, occasionally even a bit romantic.
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