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Exit Stage Left: The Snagglepuss Chronicles
Softcover 168 pp
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English (United States) · DC Comics
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Collects Exit Stage Left: The Snagglepuss Chronicles #1-6, plus a Snagglepuss story from Suicide Squad/Banana Splits Special #1.
Heavens to Murgatroyd! Hanna-Barbera’s very own Snagglepuss is reimagined in a brand-new series, EXIT STAGE LEFT: THE SNAGGLEPUSS CHRONICLES, by author Mark Russell (THE FLINTSTONES)!
It’s 1953. While the United States is locked in a nuclear arms race with the Soviet Union, the gay Southern playwright known as Snagglepuss is the toast of Broadway. But success has made him a target. As he plans for his next hit play, Snagglepuss becomes the focus of the House Committee on Un-American Activities. And when powerful forces align to purge show business of its most subversive voices, no one is safe!
Written by Mark Russell, the critically acclaimed mastermind behind the award-winning PREZ VOL. 1 and THE FLINTSTONES, EXIT STAGE LEFT: THE SNAGGLEPUSS CHRONICLES, enters the Hanna-Barbera reimagined universe!
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A bold new take on the beloved cartoon comedian from the writer of The Flintstones!
Drama! Comedy! Tragedy! For the renowned Southern playwright called Snagglepuss, these are the ingredients that have made him a star of the New York stage and the glittering world that surrounds it. But the year is 1953, and behind the bright lights, darkness is brewing.
As Snagglepuss prepares for his next hit play, there’s already a target on his back. The Red Scare is in full effect, and the House Un-American Activities Committee is hunting down every last subversive in show business. So far, Snagglepuss has stayed out of their spotlight.
But Snagglepuss is gay…and his enemies are out to destroy him for it.
One by one, his best friends are being blackballed, from legends like Lillian Hellman and Dorothy Parker to his fellow Southern gentleman Huckleberry Hound. Can Snagglepuss’ reputation survive the rampage of the right wing long enough for him to stage his next masterpiece? One thing’s for sure: the show must go on!
Hot off his surprise-hit reimagining of The Flintstones, writer Mark Russell joins artist Mike Feehan to unleash the fire and fury of his sharp-witted political satire in Exit Stage Left: The Snagglepuss Chronicles—a powerful look at what it means to be an American, no matter who or what you are.
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Publication date
August 22, 2018
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bebop92 has rated51/6/2024
Una obra estupenda, atrevida y que toca la patata. Mejor que el jíbaro de ECC
batmanenrique has rated53/20/2020
Yo no sé si en Hanna-Barnera eran conscientes de lo que estaban dejando hacer a DC con sus personajes. Si lo eran, bravo por ellos y si no espero que estén tan maravillados como yo. Un tebeo lleno de personajes reales a pesar de lo grandilocuente, por momentos, de sus diálogos. Una obra más compleja de lo que parece a primera vista que habla con inteligencia y creatividad sobre política, amor, integridad y miedo. Una gozada que en España se ha publicado malamente (tamaño reducido) y que vale mucho la pena leer en el original por esos diálogos afilados y certeros
raton_de_tebeoteca has rated512/18/2019
...vaya sorpresa que ha sido este ´Snagglepuss´, y qué buen sabor deja en el paladar... lo que en principio parece una simple sátira de este personaje secundario de Hanna-Barbera, acaba resultando un profundo análisis -y demoledora crítica- de la caza de brujas de McCarthy en los ´50 estadounidenses, de la represión paralela y consecuente a las minorías (en este caso, homosexuales), y un alegato fantásticamente bien construido, argumentado e ilustrado en pos de la defensa del librepensamiento y de los derechos civiles... y todo ello partiendo únicamente de aquel carácter tan afectado, amanerado y melindroso del personaje de Snagglepus (el León Melquiades, en España), a quien sus en exceso buenas maneras y marcada educación le metían siempre en problemas. Una joyita escondida en un mar de ramplonas publicaciones, que me ha encantado por su originalidad, honestidad y buen oficio. Sin trampas ni pretensiones, directo a la yugular y abarcando todo lo que el personaje da de sí. ¡Bravo!
ricardoag has rated58/18/2019
Es una obra sorprendentemente sólida, dura y valiente. No es demagógica, es honesta y sin concesiones al buenísimo/pensamiento bambi del que somos víctimas en este siglo XXI con el personaje de Melquiades, como un trasuntado Tenesse Williams.Devastador. Imprescindible.
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blotmath has rated511/14/2024
One of the BEST authors of the moment