Heads and Tales - Edward Bulwar-Lytton
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After being consigned by several generations to literary purgatory, Edward Bulwar-Lytton deserves to be free -- if not for his sake then for our own. He is a far more interesting man than simply being the author of the most famous first line in all of English literature:
It was a dark and stormy night.
text and drawings by Jim Stovall
In his forward to this book, Ed Caudill says:
"Jim Stovall writes in the introduction that he is “trying to caricature people.” He succeeds, perhaps ironically in light of the fact that writers themselves are inevitably – sometimes tragically, sometimes commendably, usually unintentionally – caricaturing culture. This collection careens along the gamut from rich and famous to downtrodden and obscure. Some of them, the readers will know. Others, I would take long odds, are unheard of among the perusers of this volume. There any number of lesser knowns whose names are fleeting but whose work is durable, whether in politics,
letters, sciences, or elsewhere. Some are masters of other media, such radio or cinema or illustration."
Jim Stovall is a former journalism professor who writes and draws obsessively and occasionally inflicts his work onto an unsuspecting and largely undeserving public.