Drawn and Quarterly
Available: 04/28/09
8.25 x 10.75 · 184 pages
978-1-897299-63-0
CDN $19.95 · cl

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Melvin Monster, Volume One

John Stanley

Drawn and Quarterly is planning to launch an extensive reprinting of much of John Stanley’s work in discrete volumes. The first in this series is the two-volume Melvin Monster collection featuring all ten issues about the oddball monster boy who just wants to be good, go to school, and do as he’s told. Designed to fit nicely with Drawn and Quarterly’s reprinting of Tove Jansson’s Moomin series, these comics are great reading for all ages. Stanley’s reputation as a great storyteller and visual comedian is richly deserved — few golden- or silver-age comics stand the test of time the way these comics do.

John Stanley (1914-1993) was a journeyman comics scripter in the 1950s and 1960s. He is most famous for his scripts for most of the Little Lulu comics produced by Dell, and is considered by many comics historians to be the most consistently funny and idiosyncratic writer to ever work in comics. He left comics bitterly sometime in the late 1960s, never to return.