THE HOLLYWOOD ECLECTERN #40
edited by Ed Buchman
(free, but send a couple bucks or some stamps to Ed Buchman / PO Box 4215 / Fullerton, CA / 92834 USA)
Reviewed by Mark CamposThis is so sweet — a fanzine in the classic style, typewritten pages Xeroxed and held together with a single staple in the upper left corner. This longrunning newsletter is for lovers of Little Lulu and her world. Editor Ed has for us this time news and reviews of the Dark Horse reprint volumes of Lulu comics; info on some dodgy DVD repackagings of old Lulu animated cartoons; and pencil roughs drawn by John Stanley (Lulu's longtime artist) for a Nancy & Sluggo adventure.
For a deviant like me, though, the high point was a page of stories and jokes sent in by N. Chandramohan of Virudhunagar, India, which has the artless charm and ESL charisma of an Amos Tutuola novel:
"ALWIN: What do you think of butterfly?
"IGGY: It is also a fairy with wings and without magical world."
This zine has made my world a better place today.
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