Comics and Cartoons

[Monica Belevan]

Bouvard and Pecuchet.




>From: "David Morris" <fqmorris at hotmail.com>
>To: smoyer at satx.rr.com, pynchon-l at waste.org
>Subject: Re: Comics and Cartoons
>Date: Wed, 10 Jul 2002 20:23:38 -0500
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>>From: "Samuel Moyer" <smoyer at satx.rr.com>
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>>----- Original Message -----
>>From: "Tim Strzechowski" <dedalus204 at attbi.com>
>> > And certainly John Kennedy Tootle's _A Confederacy of Dunces_ is full 
>>of cartoonish characters!
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>>Confederacy is very good.
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>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.
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>> >   Any other suggestions?
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>>Sure... go back a few years... Francis Rabelais, Gargantua and Pantagruel.
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>>Sam
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