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Couleur Cafe, Comic Strip and Du Jazz Dans le Ravin are generous and well-selected anthologies of Gainsbourg's work, organized more or less by genre. The first, which concentrates on his crisp Latin and Brazilian backing rhythms, includes period ditties like "Cha Cha Cha du Loup" and "New York USA," as well as more substantial songs from 1959 through 1975. The supermod Comic Strip, covering the delirious span of 1966-69, showcases his tempered embrace of Americana ("Ford Mustang," "Bonnie and Clyde") and climaxes with richly sexual selections like "Je T'Aime Moi Non Plus," from Jane Birkin and Serge Gainsbourg, a legendary 1969 album done with the star of Michelangelo Antonioni's Blow-Up. Du Jazz Dans le Ravin, meanwhile, collects the brightly toned French pop jazz that Gainsbourg's often great bands and arrangers brought off with national fervor.
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It's hard to remember now, when Snoopy and Charlie Brown dominate the blimps at golf tournaments instead of the comics in Sunday papers, that once upon a time Schulz's strip was the fault-line of a cultural earthquake. Garry Trudeau, creator of "Doonesbury," who came of age as a comic strip artist under Schulz's influence, thought of it as "the first Beat strip." Edgy, unpredictable, ahead of its time, "Peanuts" "vibrated with '50s alienation," Trudeau recalled. "Everything about it was different."
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Hugely popular, Katzenjammer Kids was responsible for one of the first comic-strip copyright ownership suits in the history of the medium. When Dirks left Hearst for the promise of a better salary under Pulitzer (unusual, since cartoonists regularly deserted Pulitzer for Hearst) Hearst, in a highly unusual court decision, retained the rights to the name "Katzenjammer Kids", while creator Dirks retained the rights to the characters. Hearst promptly hired a cartoonist named Harold Knerr to draw his own version of the strip. Dirks renamed his version Hans and Fritz (later, The Captain and The Kids). Thus, two versions distributed by rival syndicates graced the comics pages for decades. Dirks' version, eventually distributed by United Feature Syndicate, ran until 1979.
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The definitive collection ofCharles M. Schulz's comic strip masterpiece "Peanuts" with a heartfelt introductionby Diana Krall includes the dailes and Sunday strips from 1961 to 1962. Available on Amazon and in retailers across North America. Makes an excellent holiday gift!
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Worldwide interactive entertainment publisher Infogrames Inc. (Nasdaq IFGM) announced today that United Media has awarded the company the rights to bring the most popular comic strip in history to all gaming platforms. The exclusive deal is guaranteed through 2006.
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There's always been an understanding -- at least among the cognoscenti -- that comic strips and cartoon art was really illustration, and worthy of something more than dismissal as "the funny pages." But the same can't be said for comic books. It's not that they were always seen as "kid's stuff." They weren't. Back in the heydey of the publishing world, when Superman and Action Comics sold millions of copies, they sold them to adults just as often as children. But there was still a sense that comic books weren't serious.
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