author: Joe Simon
name: Wayne
average rating: 4.33
book published: 2013
rating: 4
read at: 2013/09/26
date added: 2013/09/26
shelves: graphic-novels
review:
In a great forward by Craig Yoe, we are introduced to the early world of dream comics. The argument is made that dreams and comics go very well together due to the frame nature of comics. Early examples from Winsor McCay are given. Both Little Nemo In Slumberland, and a book I was unfamiliar with, Dreams of the Rarebit Fiend (in which McCay solicited people who had vivid dreams after eating Welsh Rarebit) are referenced as early examples of dream comics.
This collection of comics by Simon and Kirby from the 1950s is surreal and strange. They mostly feature fictional dream interpreter Richard Temple narrating stories of people with disturbing dreams and what those dreams could mean. There are fake offers to interpret your dreams, and one page text stories that are all pretty good. The book drifts into stories of the zodiac as the series tried to find it's footing. The series only lasted 4 issues, and all four issues are here along with covers and proposed covers.
The Kirby art is great with dream creatures with no faces or distended garish looks. The colors are otherworldly. These are comics that in a few years would be deemed unsuitable and banned. They were never meant for children and it's great to have them available again.
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