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LOAC Essentials Volume 2: the Gumps - the Saga of Mary Gold Online CoiaO (Download pdf ebook) LOAC Essentials Volume 2: The Gumps - The Saga of Mary Gold Online [CoiaO.ebook] LOAC Essentials Volume 2: The Gumps - The Saga of Mary Gold Pdf Free Sidney Smith audiobook | *ebooks | Download PDF | ePub | DOC Download Now Free Download Here Download eBook #1505531 in Books 2013-04-09 2013-04-09Original language:EnglishPDF # 1 11.60 x 1.20 x 4.40l, 1.30 #File Name: 1613775733336 pages | File size: 68.Mb Sidney Smith : LOAC Essentials Volume 2: The Gumps - The Saga of Mary Gold before purchasing it in order to gage whether or not it would be worth my time, and all praised LOAC Essentials Volume 2: The Gumps - The Saga of Mary Gold: 3 of 3 people found the following review helpful. A classic moment in comic stripsBy Robert FisherThe Gumps is not terribly well remembered today, but in the 1920's and 1930's, it was one of the most popular comic strips around. In those days, movies and radio were just starting to become major industries, television was still in the experimental stage and if there was anything like the Internet, it could only be found in science fiction stories, so it could be said The Gumps was one of the leading sources of entertainment, period. The Library of American Comics Essentials has recently published The Saga of Mary Gold, perhaps the most famous story in the strip's history. Those who follow comics history might recall that this is the first time a major character in a comic strip died and many people reacted as if a real person was lost. Creator Sidney Smith and his syndicate received an enormous amount of mail expressing outrage. Now, readers can take a look and see for themselves a story that had folks in 1928 and 1929 on the edge of their seats. The Gumps are Andy and Min. Andy might be seen as the prototype for Homer Simpson and Peter Griffin. He is the self-styled head of the household, convinced of his brilliance, despite all evidence to the contrary. However, in a crunch, he's also capable of rising to heroism. Min is of course the sensible one. This book starts with the arrival of new neighbors, the Golds. A modern reader might find the strips a bit odd and dated; however, it occurs to me if someone from 1928 had a chance to see some of today's comics, like Dilbert or Pearls Before Swine, the reaction would be similar. The Gold's daughter Mary is being courted by Tom Carr, a would-be inventor and Henry J. Ausstinn, a wealthy banker. The story soon moves from humor to drama. Ausstinn is one of the nastiest creatures around; perhaps only A Game of Thrones' Prince Joffrey outdoes him in that department. He wants Mary and is willing to use underhanded means to sabotage Tom's chances. Tom is forced to become a fugitive through a complicated series of circumstances that suggest he stole money from Andy Gump. In time, Tom is sent to prison and Ausstinn, having worn Mary down, sends him a wedding invitation just to twist the knife. In his introduction, Jared Gardner notes how people got caught up in the story. The state senate of Arkansas passed a resolution calling for justice for Tom Carr and the governor of Mississippi actually wrote out a pardon for Tom. Just when you think all will finally be righted, there is the tragic ending. The humor of The Gumps might not always hold up but this story's finale can still break a reader's heart (or that of the Gumps' usually hard-hearted maid Tilda). To hear of people in grief over the death of a comic strip character might sound quaint or like Stephen King's Misery on a mass scale, but when you read the saga, you can understand the emotional outpouring. Gardner writes that Sidney Smith had had a tragedy in his own life that might have influenced this story. The Gumps: The Saga of Mary Gold is not only recommended for its historical value, but also for being a good, sadly beautiful book.2 of 2 people found the following review helpful. What if Charles Dickens had created a newspaper strip?By AjitAt first glance this latest edition of the Library of American Comics' 'Essentials' line, 'The Saga of Mary Gould', seems oddly familiar -- a cross between Frank King's 'Gasoline Alley Volume 1' (without the warmth and the whimsy) and Harold Gray's 'Little Orphan Annie' (stripped of the scrapiness and the outright political polemic). And that is natural enough because all three were part of the 'Midwest School' of comics, nurtured by Colonel Joseph Patterson. (The greatest comics editor ever?)But look beyond the art -- those odd blank eyes, the over-large hands, the exaggerated expressions -- and the differences begin to crop up. Where his Chicago Tribune-New York Daily News stablemates Milton Caniff and Al Capp made their mark in adventure and satire, Sidney Smith, creator of 'The Gumps', found his forte in another genre -- melodrama.Being a Victorian -- he was born in 1877 -- Smith seems to have reached out for inspiration to the greatest of the Victorian novelists, Charles Dickens. (As would Smith's colleague Harold Gray.) Reading this book, which collects 'The Gumps' daily strips from May 1, 1928 through May 3, 1929, it is hard not to believe that Smith wasn't unconsciously influenced by 'The Old Curiosity Shop'.Mary Gould is Smith's Nell Trent, Tom Carr is Kit Nubbles (right down to being framed for theft), Henry J. Ausstinn is Daniel Quilp (with the Victorian 'Betsy' turning into an equally long- suffering wife named 'Betty' in the American comic strip), and so forth. Most tellingly, both Mary Gould and Nell Trent will meet the same fate.'The Old Curiosity Shop' was published as a serial, and the episode covering Nell's fate were awaited as eagerly, and were as much of a publishing sensation, as the 'Harry Potter' books. So, in its time, did the long tale in this book.In an era when radio was a novelty and television all but unknown the daily newspaper strip was eagerly discussed across the country. 'The Saga of Mary Gould' inspired such an outcry that Governor Theodore Bilbo granted Tom Carr a full pardon and the Arkansas Senate adopted a resolution calling for justice to prevail (which Smith smartly included in the March 11, 1929 strip).But what of the Gumps, the titular heroes of the strip? Well, the strip started on February 12, 1917 when the Gumps moved into a house where Smith's previous hero, Old Doc Yak (a goat!), had once lived. By 1928 Any Gump had moved from being the hero of the strip to being a raconteur, occasionally the device through which Smith uses to move the plot.Jared Gardner has contributed a long, thoroughly absorbing, nineteen-page essay that appears at the front of the book, putting Sidney Smith as well as 'The Saga of Mary Gould' in perspective, showing us how important they were to the development of the newspaper strip as a medium. Gardner also contributes footnotes, clarifying, for instance, who Nellie Bly might be.For readers who may not be familiar with the series, the Library of American Comics 'Essentials' is an intriguing line. Shorter than most titles --half the height of 'Complete Little Orphan Annie Volume 1 (Complete Little Orphan Annie)' -- and printing just one strip to a page, the 'Essentials' publish a single year of a comic strip of historic or literary value.The spine seems a bit 'bendy' to me but that said the first volume, 'LOAC Essentials 1: Baron Bean (Library of American Comics Essentials)', is still holding up. And the Library of American Comics continues to include that aid to civilized reading, the ribbon marker.If you are interested in the history of that thoroughly American artform called the newspaper comic strip or just want a good read you owe it to yourself to read this book. Throughly recommended!0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. The book is terrific!By William F. Jannke IIIAnytime a classic comic strip is reprinted, it is a reason for cheer and I seek it out. The Gumps is well worth the price and is part of the Library of American Comics series. The strips are printed from the best masters that could be found and the forward and essay on the life of creator Sidney Smith are very welcome additions and set the stage and put into context the strips that follow.Now if only LOAC would publish the early Thimble Theater strips by E.C. Segar. I'd be the first person to order that! In the late 1910s, Sidney Smith developed a formula of the daily strip that would make The Gumps one of the most popular comics of the 1920s and himself one of the richest cartoonists of his day. By the end of the decade Sidney Smith's The Gumps had secured a huge and loyal audience with a decade of melodrama, adventure, mystery, and comedy. So devoted were his readers, in fact, that they regularly wrote in to offer advice for his characters' love lives and business decisions and they generally treated the characters as friends and family members. In 1928-29, with the launching of what would be his most famous story, "The Saga of Mary Gold," Smith's relationship to his readers would be tested as never before. Its heartbreaking conclusion would change comics forever.
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