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Accidental ambassador Gordo : the comic strip art of Gus Arriola / text by Robert C. Harvey ; Gordo by Gus Arriola.
Van Pelt Library PN6728.G63 H37 2000
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Harvey, Robert C.
- Series:
- Studies in popular culture (Jackson, Miss.)
- Studies in popular culture series
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Arriola, Gus. Gordo.
- Arriola, Gus.
- Physical Description:
- vii, 248 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 28 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, [2000]
- Summary:
- On these pages is ample evidence of the warm humor and cultural insight that distinguished Gordo's run in America's newspapers for almost forty-four years. More by accident than by deliberate intention Gordo evolved into a cultural ambassador who represented life in Mexico to an American audience.
- Surrounded by an ensemble of domestic animals who commented on the foibles of their master, Gordo (which means fat) was at first a simple bean farmer. As Arriola indulged his love for the folk art and lore of Mexico, his portly protagonist became a tour guide whose adventures acquainted readers north of the border with the life and customs of their neighbors to the south.
- The biographical text, written by noted comics critic and historian Robert C. Harvey, traces Arriola's artistic growth. He became one of the comics' supreme stylists. His unusually inventive artwork on the Sunday pages produced stunning fiestas of color and design.
- Contents:
- Chapter 1 A Dream and a Poem and the Soul of Gordo 1
- Chapter 2 Horned Toads and Opera, Orange Juice and Art 9
- Chapter 3 Anthropomorphic Antics and Backlot Romance 21
- Chapter 4 Bandit to Bean Farmer 30
- Chapter 5 Gus and Gordo Go to War 44
- Chapter 6 Recipe for a Deluge 58
- Chapter 7 Great Style Shift 83
- Chapter 8 Doc's Lab 121
- Chapter 9 Cultural Ambassador 147
- Chapter 10 Routines and Rachel 169
- Color Plates: Sundays in Color 225
- Chapter 11 Hammocks in the Sun 233.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 245-248).
- ISBN:
- 1578061601
- 157806161X
- OCLC:
- 43567295
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