From the card catalog

Again, we delve into my recent acquisitions from the Lawrence Public Library, recapping what I’ve been reading in between reviewing records and interviewing rock stars (last week, it was Jared from Bowling For Soup!).

book-cover-eerie-publicationsA recent couple of books paired up nicely, and featuring them together seemed rather appropriate. First, I read Mike Howlett‘s love letter to Eerie Publications – the lesser known, black sheep cousin to Warren and EC. Entitled the Weird World of Eerie Publications, Howlett’s book does an excellent and irreverent job of singing the praises of the rip-off, unoriginal, and schlocky dreck that publisher Myron Fass spun out. The art was over-the-top gory, and the stories were usually plagiarized, but there’s an undeniable appeal to the images lovingly reproduced in full-size within the pages of this history / ode to the magazines Eerie released.
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