Wednesday, October 28, 2009

Followup to yesterday's post

Following up on yesterday's post about John Stanley's stories in The Toon Treasury of Classic Children's Comics, recently people have taken to regarding everything Stanley did as a masterpiece on the same level as Little Lulu. But if you compare "Five Little Babies" and "Two Foots is Feet," the two Little Lulu stories in Toon Treasury, with the non-Lulu related Stanley stories "A Day in the Country" and "Mice Business" (the latter a Melvin the Monster story), the non-Lulu stories simply aren't in the same league. Considering the writing alone, the Little Lulu stories are works of genius, while the non-Lulu stories are merely competent humor strips.

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