LOAC Essentials Volume 5: The Bungle Family 1930

"The Bungle Family ... is my favorite book of 2014." -Dan Nadel, TheComics Journal"I took a chance based on the good name of the LOAC andThe Bungle Family paid off in ways I never imagined possible.

It proves yetagain that great art never dies." - Greg Barbrick,cinemasentries.comArt Spiegelman called TheBungle Family "the most underrated comic strip in our history." BillBlackbeard wrote, "There has been nothing like it in comic strips since."Hogan's Alley magazine proclaimed, "The Bungle Family was about aswholly an adult comic strip as the field has ever known." Yet only sporadicexamples of Harry J.

Tuthill's masterpiece have been available to modernreaders.

This volume - collecting the complete 1930 dailies -remedies that situation.

The strip revolves around a squabbling couple, Georgeand Josephine Bungle, apartment dwellers who are constantly at odds with notonly each other, but with their neighbors, landlords, relatives, and just aboutanyone who crosses their paths - constantly conniving and scheming forfinancial or social advantage, and trying to marry their daughter, Peggy, to arich prospect (including the recurring con man, J.

Oakdale Hartford, who figuresprominently in this volume).

The Bungle Family displays no visualpanache; rather, it's Tuthill's deft ability to define characters and hisengrossing writing style that is the strip's core.

Perhaps no other comic stripbetter defines LOAC Essentials' mission to reprint the daily newspaperstrips that are essential to comics history in yearly volumes so we can have anexperience similar to what newspapers readers had may decades ago -reading the comics one day at a time. "The Bungle Family ... is myfavorite book of 2014." -Dan Nadel, The Comics Journal"I took a chancebased on the good name of the LOAC and The Bungle Family paid off in ways Inever imagined possible.

It proves yet again that great art never dies." - GregBarbrick, cinemasentries.com