About this item
This is a great collection in the same way that Frank King and Dick Moores work on Gasoline Alley in the early sixties was beautiful. - New York Journal of Books This is among the funniest and most beautiful comic strips ever drawn. It is history unleashed and yet belongs in the future. In short, it is timeless. -The Scoop Famed Dirty Duck and Air Pirates cartoonist Bobby Londons more than six-year run on the Popeye newspaper strip has been hailed both as a unique original creation and as an homage to Elzie Segars larger Thimble Theatre vision. Segar was the seminal influence in my career, the cartoonist said. London updated the strip to reflect current pop culture and also brought back the extended story format favored by Segar. London gives us new yet familiar versions of Popeye, Olive Oyl, Swee Pea, and Wimpy, as well as Popeyes Pappy, Olives brother Castor, Eugene the Jeep, Bernice the Whiffle Hen, the menacing Sea Hag, Alice the Goon, and more! Bobby Londons take on the Sailor Man has often been overshadowed by his being fired from the strip in 1992, ostensibly for presenting a storyline that was an allegory about abortion.
About the Author
Bobby London was born in Brooklyn, New York in 1950. He attended Adelphi
University, but left in his sophomore year after a visit to the Woodstock
Music & Art Festival convinced him to move to the San Francisco Bay Area to
draw for the underground press. After a shaky start he created his most
durable character, Dirty Duck, in 1970. The cigar-smoking fowl quacked wise
publicly for the first time in the Los Angeles Free Press in 1971 and was
eventually running simultaneously in National Lampoon and Playboy. London is
the recipient of the Yellow Kid Award from the International Salon?of Comics
in?Lucca, Italy, and his illustrations have appeared in the New York Times,
Esquire, Rolling Stone, The Village Voice, and rhe Washington Post. His
all-ages comic series Cody, based on his illustrations for the New York
Times Op-Ed page, ran in Nickelodeon Magazine. In 2000 he moved to
Hollywood, where he worked on Dexter's Laboratory, The Powerpuff Girls, and
The Spongebob Squarepants Movie. He contributed a comic book story based on
his experiences in the New York punk scene to the 2005 Rhino Records boxed
set anthology Weird Tales of the Ramones, which was nominated for a Grammy.
Most recently London adapted the Grimm Brothers' yarn "Sweet Porridge" for
Chris Duffy's Fairy Tale Comics. He currently resides in Southern California
with former Six Flags artist Karen Angelica and their dog, Chilibean. London's 6 year
run writing and drawing the Popeye daily comic strip for King Features (1986-1992)
has just been released in its entirety for the first time by IDW Publishing.
