{"id":75,"date":"2007-03-14T16:16:25","date_gmt":"2007-03-14T16:16:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/?p=75"},"modified":"2012-07-24T09:58:03","modified_gmt":"2012-07-24T09:58:03","slug":"jack-cole-and-plastic-man","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/2007\/03\/14\/jack-cole-and-plastic-man\/","title":{"rendered":"Jack Cole and Plastic Man"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/03\/jcpm.jpg\" title=\"Jack Cole and Plastic Man\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/03\/jcpm.jpg\" alt=\"Jack Cole and Plastic Man\" \/><\/a>\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>By <strong>Art Spiegelman<\/strong> and <strong>Chip Kidd<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>(Chronicle Books)\u00c2\u00a0 ISBN 0-8118-3179-5<\/p>\n<p>This eccentric tribute to the genius of cartoonist Jack Cole combines all the love and design skills of Spiegelman and Kidd with innovative print and paper techniques, a sharp biography and heart-felt appreciation of this inspired and tragic creator, and a wonderful selection of complete story reprints from Cole&#8217;s incredible fund of work.<\/p>\n<p>The comic sections, printed of artificially browned newsprint &#8212; for that old comic feel &#8212; include <em>The Eyes Have It<\/em> (<strong>Police Comics<\/strong> #22, 1943), <em>Burp the Twerp<\/em> (<strong>Police Comics<\/strong> #29, 1944), <em>Sadly-Sadly<\/em> (<strong>Plastic Man<\/strong> #20, 1949), <em>Plague of the Plastic People<\/em> and <em>Woozy Winks on Dopi Island<\/em> (both from <strong>Plastic Man<\/strong> #22, 1950) and the legendary, if not infamous, <em>Murder, Morphine and Me<\/em> from <strong>True Crime Comics<\/strong> #1 (1947) cited often and tellingly by Dr. Frederick Wertham in his attacks on comics in the 1950s.<\/p>\n<p>Although he would probably hate it said, Jack Cole is one of the key innovators in the field of comics and strip cartoons and this book is a fine tribute. Let&#8217;s get it reprinted right now!<\/p>\n<p>Edition \u00c2\u00a9 2001 DC Comics. All Rights Reserved. Text \u00c2\u00a9 2001 Art Spiegelman<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00c2\u00a0 By Art Spiegelman and Chip Kidd (Chronicle Books)\u00c2\u00a0 ISBN 0-8118-3179-5 This eccentric tribute to the genius of cartoonist Jack Cole combines all the love and design skills of Spiegelman and Kidd with innovative print and paper techniques, a sharp biography and heart-felt appreciation of this inspired and tragic creator, and a wonderful selection of &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/2007\/03\/14\/jack-cole-and-plastic-man\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Jack Cole and Plastic Man&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[78,119,83,127],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-75","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-comic-strip-classics","category-comicsacademic","category-modern-classics","category-nostalgia"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4AFj-1d","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=75"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}