The Best of Archie Comics Book 4 the newest volume of Archie's all-time bestselling graphic novel series. This title features the greatest stories starring Archie and his friends from Archie's seven decades of comics excellence!
THE ARCHIE SUPERSTARS are the impressive line-up of talented writers and artists who have brought Archie, his friends and his world to life for more than 70 years, from legends such as Dan DeCarlo, Frank Doyle, Harry Lucey, and Bob Montana to recent greats like Dan Parent and Fernando Ruiz, and many more!
Archie Andrews and his pals are a timeless and yet timely
reflection of American society. The Best
Of Archie Comics Book 4 presents a parade of more
than 60 years of changing fashions and drawing styles….yet little
of the humor in the stories is tethered to any particular era. In
“Photo Finish” by Bill Vigoda (1947), Veronica has a look more
based on glamour illustrations of the 30s, while in “Dance Crazy”
by Frank Doyle, Harry Lucey and Marty Epp (1966) she has a more
familiar look.But the jokes could switch eras with no loss of
humor. Lucey, by the way, is a much loved cartoonist whose
influence on Jaime Hernandez you can see in his limber, lively
shapes and expressions.
In 1958's “Say it With Flour” by Dan DeCarlo, the quintessential
Archie artist, Archie and Jughead mess up a cooking contest in a
way that would seem just as funny today, although the final gag
would probably be deemed insensitive to disabled veterans and
pirates.
In modern times, shown in “Pick Me Up” by Kathleen Webb, Dan
DeCarlo and Henry Scarpelli (2000) and “The Clod of Thunder” by Tom
DeFalco, Fernando Ruiz, Rich Koslowski, John Workman and Digilore
Studios (2013), modern coloring, welcome multi-cultural references
and Betty and Veronica having their say over who gets to show them
attention update the situations, but the essential characters are
the same.
As Mark Waid writes in one of the intros, “Archie and his cast of
characters have, over the years, been refined to a razor-edge of
comedy and characterization by the dozens of writers and artists
who’ve contributed to his canon.”
--Heidi McDonald, PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
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