The Little Lulu papers have found a home at the Schlesinger Library. Emerson scholar Lawrence Buell and his brother donate a "slice of Americana."
(A girl who "deserves a place beside the likes of Emma Goldman, Amelia Earhart, and Harriet Beecher Stowe," should get a little space on Fuse #8, don't you think?)
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I dunno. I definitely read Lulu when I was a kid, but she always struck me as a little too similar to Sluggo and Nancy. Is that wrong of me to say?
Hey there! There are similarities, and for a while John Stanley illustrated both Nancy and Lulu.
I've never been a big Nancy fan (although Bushmiller's Nancy Eats Food looks pretty great), so I can't say just how different Lulu is from Nancy. My husband says that Nancy comics are "more of a gag, while the Lulus are complex stories." And you have to go farther back than the 60s to get to the best Lulus.
They're chocked-full with backward social messages, but Lulu always manages to come out on top.
My husband is a Lulu collector. Lulu has a lot of male fans – the slapstick appeals to the Three Stooges enthusiast, but there's also the intricate, character-driven storyline too. (How do I insert Venn diagram here?) Plus Stanley's covers, and most of Tripp's drawings are wonderful.
Nancy Eats Food
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