On John Stanley and Irving Tripp

In their introductory material to The Toon Treasury of Classic Children's Comics, Spiegelman and Mouly write that "[John] Stanley wrote and visually planned out his Lulu stories, but most were simply rendered by journeyman cartoonist Irving Tripp, without the deftness of touch visible in Stanley's own drawing, as seen in the ... Tubby story we selected" (p. 12). On the contrary, the art in the two stories in Toon Treasury on which Stanley collaborated with Tripp is classic, while the solo Stanley art in the Tubby story referred to looks like a poor imitation.