Review by Booklist Review
The newest king of macabre cartooning wears the crown of Charles Addams and Gahan Wilson very well. Most of his single-panel wonders portray animals doing all-too-human things, or vice versa, and those things usually have to do with eating or death. Larson's work has found far greater popular acceptance than that of his weird-cartoon predecessors, no doubt because he syndicates to daily papers. It helps, too, that Larson, unlike Wilson, never touches adult subject matter (i.e., sex) and, unlike Addams, never indulges a sophisticated attitude. Larson's lunacy is straightforward and ingenuous enough to delight even quite young children as well as the teens and adults who also buy the greeting cards, T-shirts, and mugs bedecked with his drawings. This is the second 8\\\\-by-11-inch album of his work, drawn from three earlier, smaller-format collections. Another popular doyen of the dire, Stephen King, contributes an enthusiastic foreword. RO. 741.59 American wit and humor, Pictorial [OCLC] 84-81550
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