The WIZARD of ID – Daily and Sunday Strips, 1973

Inbunden bok. Titan Books. 2013. 224 sidor.

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Welcome to the Kingdom of Id, a one-horse kingdom ruled by a pint-sized despot known only as The King.
• This is a collection of Brant Parker and Johnny Hart's award-winning newspaper strip, featuring wise-cracking wizards and rotten rulers, has-been jesters and cowardly knights.
• This title collects the daily and Sunday strips from 1973 for the first time, and new background feature material.

"Another Quality Hardback Compilation of Often Hilarious Comic-Strips of this Wonderful Creation
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 5 December 2011
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'The Wizard of Id', written by Johnny Hart and (predominantly) drawn by Brant Parker, is my second favourite comic-strip only bettered by another Johnny Hart creation (which is both drawn and written by him) 'BC';
I have been reading and collecting collections of both strips for decades, so am rather biased towards them...

The strip is long-standing, dating from the early '60s until 1997 (when Parker handed over drawing-duties to his son) and latterly 2007 when Hart died (co-incidentally the same year Parker died). It is based in the medieval Kingdom of Id, features a small cast of characters (essentially the King, wizard+wife, a royal knight called Rodney, his 'squeeze' and a lifer prisoner+keeper) and was drawn with minimal background detail, but with great attention to the characters and their dialogue.
• Often hilarious, the humour relies mostly on sarcasm and witty retorts but the graphics are obviously essential to the 'experience', not just to understand the setting or any visual jokes but also because a lot of laughs are provoked by seeing the reactions of those involved when the punch line is uttered. Everyone is vulnerable to being the butt of a joke, especially the King (mainly due to his lack of height) and Rodney (as he is essentially a complete idiot and goofs up a lot); contrary to the title, the wizard is not actually a very prominent character.
• This compilation covers specifically the strip as published (in newspapers) during 1971. In all likelihood this compilation features nothing new for me as I have a vast collection of books featuring the strip already, but it is nevertheless a delight to own and read as like the previous issue it is finely produced book, most notably being that it is again hardback (this time with an outer jacket) and the quality of the paper is once more very fine/ bright white (as opposed to the usual paperback with 'pulped' brown paper) ! It is again a quality production with thick covers and an overall chunky/weighty feel."

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