Here's An Interesting Archie Comics
One-Shot Book Jugheads Folly.
Published In 1957. Art By Joe Edwards.
Yet Even More Comic Book Fun From The Past With Other Strange Stuff Thrown In Just For The Heck Of It.
Yet Even More Comic Book Fun From The Past With Other Strange Stuff Thrown In Just For The Heck Of It.
Wow. That was cool.
ReplyDeleteNot so much the story, though there's nothing wrong with it. There are other Archie stories that follow pretty much the same line, but story-telling is about how as much as what and this is solid & entertaining.
What impresses me is the artwork. Is possible to be flashy AND understated? It's not so much the panel layouts--though page to page they are nicely varied--or panel shapes--pretty much square or otherwise rectangular--as the variety of panel borders. That reverse silhouette made from the panel border that he uses twice is particularly interesting. I guess Joe Edwards did similar things with his Li'l Jinx stories, but they tended to be for more exaggerated, in-your-face effects from what I've seen, whereas here they come off more subtly.
This is the first time that I remember seeing Joe Edwards drawing Archie characters. It's very good. His Li'l Jinx tales are fine but I like this much better. And interesting book.
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