Thursday, January 28, 2016
Illusions by Richard Bach/Gray Morrow
Originally posted on my late, lamented SHADES OF GRAY blog, here is the ultra-rare ILLUSIONS newspaper strip done by Gray in the late seventies under the short-lived BEST SELLER SHOWCASE banner. Reading it now, it may come across like so much metaphysical and pseudo-philosophical mumbo-jumbo but at the time the book, by Richard Bach, author of JONATHAN LIVINGSTON SEAGULL, was a huge number one bestseller! Still, an odd choice for a comic strip adaptation and I can't really say it was done well. Morrow's art here fluctuates from quite good to barely there but the flimsy story probably lost quite a bit of readers for the strip.
Thanks for posting this. I love it.
ReplyDeleteWow. Only ever read Jonathan Livingston Seagull, but if you hadn't said so, I'd've spotted it was Bach easily. Gray is as wonderful as ever, but, my god( s ), this stuff! Is it possible for your soul to get a headache? That's what this does for me...
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