David Chelsea in Love

(Eclipse)
™ and © Eclipse Comics

How can anyone dislike David Chelsea? Besides bringing an understanding of perspective and proportion almost unparalleled in comics, he’s a spot–on caricaturist with facial expressions and body language most folks study two lifetimes to achieve. It’s impossible to inspect Chelsea’s art without comparing him to Winsor McCay… but the old master never snapped his static camera in and out of the scene to lay shots with Chelsea’s economy and effect, nor did he employ textures and techniques that switch up the book’s style into something with a Richard Corben feel, though less exaggerated (and subsequently, not at all as grotesque).

The book itself is about an on–again, off–again romance between its author and… well, just about everybody (ah, to be young and Bohemian in the ‘80s) but by way of focus, a flighty blonde named Minnie. There are some heart–stabbing moments as the characters mistreat each other, but it’s also pretty dang funny. Your one quibble will be trying to ignore the repetitious use of names in each panel, as though the characters keep re–entering the same room every moment.

— Brendan McGinley

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#1

July, 1991
Cover Price: $3.50
3 copies available from $4.53

#2

September, 1991
Cover Price: $3.50
2 copies available from $5.00