Pynchon - The Comic Book

Adam Lou Stephanides astephan at students.uiuc.edu
Thu Apr 25 18:33:58 CDT 1996



On Fri, 19 Apr 1996 matthew.percy at utoronto.ca wrote:

> 
> 
> On Thu, 18 Apr 1996, Adam Lou Stephanides wrote:
> 
> > superhero?  I wouldn't think so, but then I thought that the cartoon
> > of Porky Pig vs. the anarchist (mentioned in Lot 49) was fictional
> > until I read a summary of it in a book on animation.
> > 
> > --Adam 
> > 
> Could I get the title of that book on animation?
> 
It's actually a book on Tex Avery, entitled _Tex Avery_ by Patrick Brion
(Paris: Chene, 1984), and it's in French.  The book has a plot summary
of the cartoon and a still from it (as it does of all Avery's cartoons).
The cartoon itself is called "The Blow-Out," and was made in 1936.

--Adam





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