LOAC Essentials Volume 5: The Bungle Family 1930
Language: English
Published by Library of American Comics, 2014
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- Title
- LOAC Essentials Volume 5: The Bungle Family 1930
- Author
- Tuthill, Harry J.
- Publisher
- Library of American Comics
- Publication year
- 2014
- Condition
- Very Good
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 1613779585
- ISBN 13
- 9781613779583
"I took a chance based on the good name of the LOAC and The Bungle Family paid off in ways I never imagined possible. It proves yet again that great art never dies.” - Greg Barbrick, cinemasentries.com
Art Spiegelman called The Bungle Family "the most underrated comic strip in our history." Bill Blackbeard wrote, "There has been nothing like it in comic strips since." Hogan's Alley magazine proclaimed, "The Bungle Family was about as wholly an adult comic strip as the field has ever known." Yet only sporadic examples of Harry J. Tuthill's masterpiece have been available to modern readers. This volume ― collecting the complete 1930 dailies ― remedies that situation. The strip revolves around a squabbling couple, George and Josephine Bungle, apartment dwellers who are constantly at odds with not only each other, but with their neighbors, landlords, relatives, and just about anyone who crosses their paths ― constantly conniving and scheming for financial or social advantage, and trying to marry their daughter, Peggy, to a rich prospect (including the recurring con man, J. Oakdale Hartford, who figures prominently in this volume).
The Bungle Family displays no visual panache; rather, it's Tuthill's deft ability to define characters and his engrossing writing style that is the strip's core. Perhaps no other comic strip better defines LOAC Essentials' mission to reprint the daily newspaper strips that are essential to comics history in yearly volumes so we can have an experience similar to what newspapers readers had may decades ago ― reading the comics one day at a time.
"The Bungle Family ... is my favorite book of 2014." -Dan Nadel, The Comics Journal
"I took a chance based on the good name of the LOAC and The Bungle Family paid off in ways I never imagined possible. It proves yet again that great art never dies." - Greg Barbrick, cinemasentries.com
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About the Author
In 1919, Tuthill—now signing his strips with the reversed name of "Harry J. Tuthill"—left his sons in the care of his late wife's family, accepting a job offer as a cartoonist for a large New York firm, the Evening Mail Syndicate, where he worked alongside cartoonist monolith Rube Goldberg. While in New York, Tuthill debuted Home, Sweet Home, a sarcastic gag-a-day strip featuring a quarrelsome couple that would eventually become The Bungle Family. Despite the commonplace subject matter, the strip distinguished itself with superb writing, slowing evolving a more darkly comic tone.
Following the death of his brother-in-law in the mid-1920s, Tuthill, now an established cartoonist, returned to St. Louis, where he bought a large estate to house his sons, sister-in-law, and nephew. Ironically, Harry Tuthill had become a huge success, all thanks to a comic strip about a family of chronic failures, lead by the henpecked George Bungle, who was named for his creator's younger son.
The Bungle Family peaked in the early 1930s—when there was even a serialised radio adaptation, The Puddle Family, and the strip was reputedly running in 300 papers—before the restless Harry began to steer the strip in increasingly odd directions. He incorporated elements of mystery and science fiction, including trips to space, the fourth dimension, and alien planets. Tuthill retired from cartooning in 1942, with the announcement that he had earned over a million dollars from the Bungles, only to revive the much-aggrieved family a year later when he started his own syndicate, a enterprise that lasted until 1945. The second retirement that followed was permanent. Tuthill declined slowly over the next decade, suffering from heart disease, which claimed him in 1957.
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