OT--help finding book

[ell...@webtv.net]

A few weeks ago there was a review in the Sunday NYT book section of a
book that would make the perfect gift for many.
Ssince RAMily members know everything about something, this is the
place to ask. It's a book that tells the classics, like "Crime and
Punishment," slightly altered altered i n com book form. It's not a
graphic novel, they're all comic strip style, and it's no t lithe late,
unlamented Classic Comics.

I've started on the Times archives, but it seems a mammoth task since
the is no place to identify a time period you're searching in, and the
archives go back to 1851! I've tried searches at Amazon and google,
with no luck.
C'mon, we're ,mystery experts.! Does anybody have a clue?

As a sincere thank you token, I have a lovely, well-aged
fruitcake--oh,wait.

Ellen

[J]

That would be Sikoryak's MASTERPIECE COMICS, reviewed in the Times on
October 4:

<< Dagwood and Blondie are Adam and Eve, Garfield the Cat is
Mephistopheles, and Batman, above, is an ax-wielding “Raskol” in this
book of parodies by Sikoryak, a New York cartoonist. He also sends up,
among others, Beckett, Camus, Dante, Kafka and Shakespeare. >>

You're wecome; no need to send the fruitcake... <g>

[Francis A. Miniter]

I checked back as far as 10-18-09. The only book I find
that seems to fit is reviewed in the October 25, 2009 NYT
BkRevSec. The review is entitled "God Gets Graphic" and the
book is a comic book version of Genesis illustrated by R.
Crumb.

Is that it?

--
Francis A. Miniter

Oscuramente
libros, laminas, llaves
siguen mi suerte.

Jorge Luis Borges, La Cifra Haiku, 6