Drawn & Quarterly (3rd Series)

    (Drawn and Quarterly, 2000-2001)
™ and © Drawn and Quarterly

With a consummately excellent work like this, on such a diverse scale, it's impossible to recommend or even recognize any particular contributions as examples of why this book has received such deserved attention, but it’s well worth getting. In addition to showcasing the power of the medium as cartooning now stands, it casts its gaze back to the origins of the format, with selected strips from Frank King’s “Gasoline Alley.” To further give you an idea of this book’s spectrum, an ancient Jewish fable shares space between the pages with the brilliantly respectful (yet irrefutably hilarious) “Dostoevsky Comics,” which digests the Russian novelist's work into an abridged strip lightboxed or masterfully nicked from Bob Kane'’s old Batman comics. Thoroughly entertaining, amusing, enticing and informative, this book should be in as many hands as all the X-Men titles combined.

— Brendan McGinley
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#3

May, 2000
Cover Price: $24.95
1 copy available for $22.00