Little Ego Rankin/Bass Volume 4 focuses on alligators

Volume 4 focuses on alligators

1935 – June 2

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Each volume is signed and dated 2009 by the artist

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Little Ego Rankin/Bass Volume 4 focuses on alligatorsFrom Kim Thompson's blurb on the back cover: Not quite pastiche, certainly not parody, Little Ego appropriates the look and feel of Winsor McCay's transcendent masterpiece, Little Nemo in Slumberland. Like McCay, Giardino uses the dream formula to free the narrative from the logical strictures a cruelly earthbound reader might seek to impose. But that's not all: in a simple, deft stroke, Giardino shakes off any moral strictures as well. Who could