Comics and Cartoons

[David Morris]

>From: "Samuel Moyer" <smoyer at satx.rr.com>
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Tim Strzechowski" <dedalus204 at attbi.com>
> > And certainly John Kennedy Tootle's _A Confederacy of Dunces_ is full of 
>cartoonish characters!
>
>Confederacy is very good.

Here in New Orleans it is a well read local favorite.  We have a bronze 
statue of the main mis-fit on our main street: Canal.  This shlemiel main 
character rings very true to our general love of the eccentric misfits which 
inhabit city.   Do a search of Rithie the Duck Lady for a taste of my 
meaning.  Otoole's ACFOD's was first published posthumously (post-suicide) 
after his surviving mother sold it to a local literary figure (I'm sorry I 
can't remember now).  It is at least as good as Farina's first book.  His 
later published _Neon Bible_ is also very good, and has been made into a 
very nice movie.  See them both.

> >   Any other suggestions?
>
>Sure... go back a few years... Francis Rabelais, Gargantua and Pantagruel.
>
>Sam




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